So.  Welcome to my little corner of the blogiverse!  It hardly ever rains here.

If my life of late could have taken the form of a want ad, this is how it would have read:

"Self-proclaimed flaming liberal bleeds-blue tried-and-true hippie activist seeks adventure and something... well, something DIFFERENT.  Loves sunshine.  Loves political drama.  Tolerates Republicans if they don't go stomping around on the Bill of Rights."

In retrospect, should have included: "Gun-Totin' Obama-Hatin' Creationists for GW, please take your crazy elsewhere."  Alas, the ad people charge by the word.

Arizona was a toss-up.  And there are plenty of things about this state that I'm coming to like.  A lot.  For example: the sun is nice.  (And, it'll be a whole lot nicer in January.)  The mountains are lovely.  And I've met some great, intelligent, totally sane and reasonable people who genuinely love this state and don't want to see it spiral downwards into a cesspool of hate-mongering and intolerance overseen by the crazies mentioned above.  

What do we do about those nut-jobs?  Well, I can offer up a few suggestions, but they may or may not be constitutional.  Anyway, you'll just have to keep reading and we'll see if anything comes up. 

So, here is the first step... well, MY first step.  My personal vehicle (however small and insignificant it might be) from which to bring irrational and harmful agendas/policies/issues/what-have-you's up front for discussion.  I want this blog to be a platform where free speech and voices of reason are welcome; where all rational-thinking beings can express their frustrations, have epiphanies, rant and rage against the ideological insanity that tends to engulf important issues in this country like the plague, and be comforted... there ARE still optimists in the world (and quite a few hippies, too).  

We'll see what this experiment yields.  I'm going to write about subjects, political and not, that interest me, piss me off a little, and issues that make me absolutely want to cluster bomb parts of the state of Arizona--and all of the worthless, racist, intolerant and ignorance-cancer-infested parts of other states, while we're at it--back into the Mesozoic era (...and that's a little evolutionary shout-out for ya'z). 

Keep fighting the good fight!  I sure as hell will be.

~Jen