Launch!

I've decided to delete the very few posts I've kept at this site and re-launch it.  It will contain new posts plus a variety of things I've written in the past. It feels kind of liberating to re-launch this blog because I have always used blog platforms that were connected to political discussion boards, which limited what I could write about. I'll still use those platforms, but link to this site. Instead of being limited to the daily grind of politics, it feels like I can write about some of my other obsessions -- like amateur astronomy of the night sky, Japanese film, the origins of soul food, and idiosyncratic things like that.

Stay tuned.