Getting started

One thing leads to another. I started using Facebook and got frustrated that the posts had to be so brief. So I set up this blog and now I'm enabling mobile capacities. All that to say this is a test and I hope this becomes more than a self indulgent tech splurge.

Glen Beck and me

I've been thinking about how much I have in common with Glen Beck. I'm a few years older than he is but we're both white guys who were raised Catholic, on the west coast (he's from the Puget Sound area, I'm from Los Angeles). We now both live far from the Pacific Ocean (he's in Connecticut, I'm in New Orleans) and we became estranged from the Church (he's a Mormon, I'm not so sure.) We've both had substance abuse issues (I don't want to talk about it much, he seems to have missed the memo about anonymity.) Neither one of us has much past a high school education and yet we both seem to think we know a lot of important things. We both know that fear is a powerful motivator, only I think it can't motivate us to do anything of lasting value. If he knew me we would also have this in common, each would think the other a total idiot.