Turning Over a New Leaf

It's interesting how life works. So, I last posted - almost a year ago.
I never wanted to blog because I thought -- who cares about my life? I do nothing interesting, I was just a little college student, and I was not particularly enchanted with the idea of an online, public diary. Then I decided to go to law school.
That was when I started this. I thought maybe law school would give me interesting things to talk about, I thought maybe people would be interested in what law school was like. What I didn't realize was that law school teaches you to be more than a little circumspect. It teaches you to watch every word out of your mouth - ESPECIALLY in public. It makes you positively O.C.D. about what you WRITE DOWN. And writing in public? Publishing in a blog? Holy cow -- forget that. You become indoctrinated with the idea that everything you say may someday be dug up and used against you.... and, well, I stopped blogging.

Until now.
More precisely, until 10 pm. on November 4, which is when I decided to start blogging again.

Don't get me wrong -- I wasn't too surprised. In fact I called it. I called it last spring, when I watched Mr. Obama mesmerize crowds. I also happen to be a student of history, and I know that Americans LOVE to switch parties every eight years. Don't really know why -- but for some reason, 'we' tend to elect our presidents to two terms, and then switch parties. I credit it to a philosophy of "I'm not perfectly happy and rich right now, so maybe if I try the other party, they'll fix all my problems." Makes sense.
(by the way, that's not always the case with Senators and Congressmen).
No, I wasn't too terribly surprised. Disappointed, yes. Surprised, no. But as a result of the elections I do find that I can no longer stay quiet. Here's the thing, I have this fundamental problem with killing babies. It really disturbs me, in fact, that we as a nation are so 'ok' with it, it's even impolite to bring it up, and certainly to call it what it is. I have a problem with that. I'd like to think I'd have a problem with any form of legalized murder.
I also have a problem with Socialism. You see, I know it sounds really great -- really utopian, really everyone-can-hold-hands-and-sing, but it just doesn't work. Ok, I'm trying to live like a Christian and part of that is giving to others, particularly those less fortunate than me. I'm all about private charities. But not socialism. Like I said -- it's been tried. A lot. By a lot of different people. The Russians had a version, the Chinese had a version, most of Western Europe currently has a version..... and it hasn't yet worked out. Why? The same reason kids don't learn when you don't grade them. No incentives. No reason to work hard, no reason to better yourself. "Redistribution of Wealth" caters to manipulation of the system, and results in the wrong people getting the money, the actually needy remaining needy, billions of dollars just falling through the cracks or going to support the bureaucracy, and the one-time-hard-working-entrepreneurs being afraid to succeed because they'll get the life taxed out of them. This is bad.

So, because I have these two problems, I am going to have to start blogging again -- and do my small part to convince a couple more of you to vote differently next time, before we end up like France. (don't get me wrong, I do love their food!) Or if nothing else...I'll just blow off steam and feel better.