The purpose of this blog is to give a view that many people have said need to be given – a wider distribution than the newspapers’ commentary pages.  Doing so means I have succumbed to the ego side of my battle between ego and humility.

Doing a blog means that my wife, Susie, has taken on another job.  I am a G-One guy with a flip phone that is used for one purpose – talking to people.  Susie does my e-mail when its required.  Giving people the opportunity to not only see my opinions but to comment on them allows for a greater discourse than the Joliet Herald’s call-in section.

Is it an over-inflated ego to believe that people from both the right and left will agree with my views?  I have never been accused of “Going along to get along”.  My opinions have been considered as liberal, conservative, progressive, libertarian, and crazy at times, but compatible at other times.

I am a news junkie.  I form my opinions from what I read (Chicago Tribune, Joliet-Herald, Time magazine, Bloomberg Business Week, and a myriad of scientific and ecology centered magazines) and see on television (local and national news, PBS interviews, and foreign news shows).

Today’s 140 character society means resonable discourse and compromise has destroyed the ability to give comprehensive stances.  Hopefully this blog will re-open people’s minds listening to viewpoints that may be in opposition to their own.  I hope it means you have seen why others don’t share your views.

Please read my views in their entirety before offering an agreement or an opposing view.  We are all quite sure we are correct in our views, but I can hope the reader can listen to an opposing view.  I can change mine if I hear a good opposing argument.  Can you?