go.

I never said it would be a cold day in hell before I started a blog, but as it happens, it is cold and it's a kind of hell out there.  And so here we go.  I've got no plans to set out a 'brief' for this thing, I'm going to write about what I'm seeing and thinking partly because I have this sense that we're in uncharted territory or as that Rick Warren guy said in his invocation (more on this later I'm sure) we're at a 'hinge point' in history. 

So it makes sense to try to write about it.

I finally feel like the government isn't out to do me ill these days but I still have the sense that things got so bad so quickly that it isn't something solvable.  Especially by the government. Does this matter to just some guy like me?  Well, I think the election proved that it does.

The President posted a weekly address, this time by podcast on www.whitehouse.gov  and I'm so impressed to be able to watch it on my iPhone anywhere.  This moment in history in the palm of my hand.  Makes you kind of need to take a breath.  I mean, Rihanna on my phone is one thing, but the leader of the free world is pretty special.

It's such a time.  Tens of thousands getting laid off and then this thing on my iPhone.  It's hard to take in so you just mutely observe and hope you can hold some part of it in your head for later.  You have to love paradox to get up in the morning.

And I do.