The purpose of this blog is to give a view that many people have said needs 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 little 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 it’s required. Giving people the opportunity to not only see my opinions ut to comment on them allows for a greater discourse than the Joliet Herald’s call-in section.

Is it an over-inflated ego when the people from both the right and left 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,m and crazy at time, but compatible at other times.

I am a news junkie.  I form my opinions from what I read (Chicago Tribune, Joliet-Herald, Time Magazine, and a myriad of scientific and ecology cnetered magazines) and see on televison (local and national news, PBS interviews, and foreign news shows).