First Post

"Here's what I hope will happen on this trip," he says. "What I hope will happen, because it's already starting to happen. All of us are beginning to do our thing, and we're going to keep doing it, right out front, and none of us are going to deny what other people are doing." 

~ Ken Kesey, as quoted by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (New York: Picador, 1968).

This is one of my favorite quotations from my favorite book of all time. It seemed rightly appropriate for a first blog post.

So what is this blog to be, then? Responsive, first of all. I don't expect to be breaking any news here. But it won't be personal, either. It will rather aggregate other news stories and my responses to them. And it'll certainly have its share of fun to it, too. Just doin' my own thing...