Thing #2

Hello again!

So I've set up this blog for government things and the like.  I wish I could have an interesting story for why I chose the name (assuming it had a better one) but I was drawing a blank and it was available.

I'm a fairly regularly reader of blogs.  Naturally, I have a strong interest in politics so I read several who are geared towards that.  I do my best to read a wide spectrum of political opinions so as not to trap myself into an echo chamber of thought.  That, I believe, is the worst part of political blogs.  If a person only reads the ones that falls in line with him/her the experience of critical thinking is lost.  I certainly have some conservative leanings but I've got a pretty wide liberal streak to go with it. 

Creating the blog was surprisingly easy.  I have several friends with blogs who have told me previously that BlogSpot was super easy and they were right.  The hardest part was trying to decide the background choice and that's only because I'm indecisive.

I wanted my cartoon to look, at least a bit, like me.  If it's a space for my thoughts it doesn't make sense to me that my doodle isn't me.  It does reflect me--not fancy, almost a cardigan.  The doodle looks like she's ready to lead a class and I hope that's me in the very near future.