Dan Wilson, Editor
I created this blog in August 2007 for the purpose of having an outlet to write about whatever comes to my mind. Publishing this blog is a victimless crime since people are free to not even know it exists and to ignore it if they do. I believe in freedom of speech and in freedom from speech. I will never phone or email you. You have to come to me if you want my opinion.
My topics range from how to stir peanut butter to the future of the planet, and what I think we should do about it. The connecting thread is that I care about the topics I write about. That may be a slender thread, but it’s what I’ve got to offer.
The approach I usually take in writing a piece is to bring together at least two provocative outside sources of information or opinion as a point of departure for expressing my thoughts on the topic.
Other times I write from recollections. Michelle Yauger is partly responsible for that. She not only provoked and encouraged me, she also set an outstanding example. Her blog, Out of My Head, Figment of My Cogitation, is quite marvelous, in my opinion. I particularly like the double entendre of the title.
My readership is trending up. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing. The good thing is people may be finding value in what I have to say. The bad thing is that I might start getting careful about what I say. Doing that would offend my deepest principles. E. B. White, one of my all time favorite writers, said:
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. From his essay, Salt Water Farm.
So, I don’t want to be careful of what I say beyond keeping it mostly well-mannered. I do not spare people who I believe are clearly egregious. This includes the Rick Wagoners of the world, and George W. Bush and his gang. They put themselves in the public eye, and they are fair targets for analysis and criticism. I also have spilled a lot of cyber ink on the news business for being too stubborn to get out of its own way. Journalists are lame about business in a peculiar kind of way that attracts my sympathy and my impatience in equal measure.
I would like to have regular readers as opposed to one-time visitors who find me on Google, but that’s not for me to decide. Come one, come all. Leave a comment, if you like. I moderate them, so they take a little while to show up. Be patient.
It’s nice to have you here. Please let me know what you think about any of the topics I write about.
Thanks!
Dan Wilson, Tucson
