Starting...

What is this? "Blog", you say? I don't know...sounds mighty foreign, maybe Russian, even...I'll have to think about it...

So, as I usually do, I'm joining this particular facet of the electronic communications bandwagon about 2-5 years after everyone else. Yay is me. Not sure how much I'll stick to this, but as someone I admire says, "blogging is good for the soul", and so I shall give it a try...

I am (as of April 2009) a 24-year old man, just starting out in this "real life" thing: two years out of a prestigious yet elitist college, teaching preschool, living in my beloved home state of Colorado, in funky downtown Denver. I'm also an ardent believer in social justice, alternative culture and politics, and historical change; trying to balance my aspirations to fullblown, idealist world-changing, with the desire to just take it easy and have fun, for the first time free of various emotional and logistical obstacles I've had in the past. Yep, I'm an undercover radical, a hippy/punk masquerading as a mainstream, upstanding, all-American, damn near small town young professional--or is that the other way around?...

Anyhoo. I'm gonna try to use this thing to vent my feelings and thoughts, well-formed and researched or otherwise, on a variety of subjects, such as: Why isn't the Obama administration responding to the obvious need for real, deep change and reform, in areas from sustainable agriculture, to community-based economics? Why do we seem to be making an only partial withdrawal from Iraq, only to meddle further in Afghan and Pakistani affairs, all while continuing to build up a military-intelligence-security-industrial complex which, altogethe, practically dwarfs that of the entire rest of the world? And why can't I find an actual girlfriend, after 3+ years of being single? LOL

So, yeah, that's me. Enjoy...