Why start a blog?

Despite urgings of many friends, I’ve resisted for a long time starting a blog.

I’ve never felt like I have the moral (or any other) authority to tell anyone what to think or what to do. There are enough pundits on TV and radio who get their righteous indignation on every time they feel like getting a little bit of attention or want to stir up controversy. There really are more than enough screaming voices on and off line that there’s very little need to add another–my own.

Recently, though, I realized that I needed an outlet to air my thoughts about the world without IM-spam-boring my friends with endless links and chatter on topics they may not be interested in. So here it goes…my foray into blogging.