Why Bother?

I suppose I should be a little apprehensive about posting to my new blog for the first time. I can't say that such is really the case. I have been considering a blog for some time, if for no other reason than to offer my somewhat peculiar or contrarian views of current events to further balance those of the mainstream press. I am not a press basher, really. Nor am I some kind of political extremist. In fact, I find myself frequently objecting to the amount of air time and column-inches that are given to discussion of the more radical perspectives. I am that most hated of all political beings, in that I am a centrist. Yes! A centrist (and here you thought we were extinct long ago!). The centrist is called apathetic by the idiots on the left because we won't follow them, and we're assailed with charges of liberalism by the toads on the far right -- people so conservative that they probably still suspect that Nixon was secretly a communist.