Inaugural Post

After years of thinking about creating my own website publication of editorials and essays, I have finally decided to actually proceed with the endeavor in the form of this blog. Joining me in this task as members of the blog team are several friends and email buddies with whom I have exchanged many such thoughts in the past.

Will I (we) actually keep this endeavor going? To be honest, I am not sure. Writing in general is time consuming and blogging in particular can be very demanding. And yet, I feel I need this outlet as I am often frustrated that the rational, non-partisan and nuanced viewpoint is not expressed very often.

So be it. The time for excuses is past. Lets just see what happens.

On a related note (not to be pessimistic) I see that Andrew Sullivan, conservative writer for the New Republic and longtime blogger is giving his blog up:

"Much as I would like to do everything, I've been unable to give the blog my full attention and make any progress on a book (and I'm two years behind). It's not so much the time as the mindset. The ability to keep on top of almost everything on a daily and hourly basis just isn't compatible with the time and space to mull over some difficult issues in a leisurely and deliberate manner. Others might be able to do it. But I've tried and failed."

Prompting this from Virginia Postrel's (former Reason editor) blog, The Dynamist:

Current-affairs blogging of the Sullivan/Instapundit/name your favorite type is inherently quick, dirty, and disposable. It may add to the public discourse, but it doesn't tend to deepen the blogger's own thinking. That, plus sheer laziness, is why this blog has never promised more than a few posts a week, and why I've given up my think-magazine-editor instincts to voice an opinion on everything.

With respect to wanting "to voice an opinion on everything" I have the same problem. Unfortunately, unlike Sullivan and Prostrel, I'm not a great writer and hence really lazy. Therefore most of my opinions just stew inside or are expressed only to friends.

Anyway, let the blogging begin.........