Like it says, this is about thinking out loud, just me thinking out loud, which I have been doing some of on FB except that a very good friend of mine said “If you are going to do this, you need a blog.”
I said, “I can’t figure out how to do that”, and Joel Dowshen said well that’s not a problem, because he knows how to do it. And so he helped me create it and here I am, for which I thank him.
And then I thought about one of my favorite quotes of all time, the one you see here from Will Rogers, that great American humorist and wisest of men; and it seemed to me that what this thinking out loud should be about is peeling the onion, just peeling and paring away all the stuff that gets in the way of a common sense understanding of politics, policy, government, history — of how it all fits together with an understanding, as someone wrote once, of “life its own-self.”
Peeling the Onion 