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Dear Friends:
I am a 55 year-old, Rapidly Aging Republican Media Creep W/Attitude (which may clear up questions some of you had about my screen name) who lives with his attorney wife in Richmond, Virginia.
My ethnic lineage includes Irish, German, Scots, English (although the Scots and Irish side of the family doesn't like to mention the filthy, murderous Sassenach side of the clan, at least not in mixed company) and a bit of Cherokee on Daddy's side (his ancestor came into Charleston Harbor from Ireland in 1798, and as with most families who've been here that long, we are miscegenated to within an inch or our lives). I am, accordingly, what I like to call a Great American Mutt. The cool things about mutts are, they have no pretensions to speak of and they are, as a general rule, far smarter, calmer and more loving than over-bread pedigreed animals.
If you don't believe me, get a mutt from the ASPCA, buy a pure breed at an exorbitant price, then train them together and see who catches on sooner. Also, who's less likely to bite, tear up the house or otherwise disturb the peace.
Mutts forever!
Although I call myself a Republican, I am seldom able to vote for the party of my fathers, mostly because I'm a pro-choicer and think any level of the government getting into the business of endorsing any kind of faith is nuts.
I also seldom vote Democratic, since I believe in Capitalism and am unalterably opposed to government which sees as one of its prime functions the redistribution of wealth. Robin Hood stole from the oppressive rich and gave to the deserving poor: governments seldom make those ancilliary distinctions.
My wife works in Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court, so don't get me started on out-of-wedlock births, especially among those portions of our population who never bothered to finish high school or hold a job for very long.
My Republican sympathies are more along the lines of A. Lincoln, T. Roosevelt and Barry Goldwater; which is to say Libertarian in the extreme. Which is how I nearly always vote.
I'm a bookaholic who loves fiction and nonfiction equally. My favorite authors include John O'Hara, John Steinbeck, Michael Chabon, Ian McEwan, Ayn Rand, Kurt Vonnegut, Ken Kesey, Richard Wright, and John D. MacDonald. Also David McCullouogh, William Manchester, Barbara Tuchman and that whacky University of Chicago economist who researched Freakonomics, Steven Levitt. What a cool book! Everyone who hasn't read it yet, run, do not walk, to your library or book store and check it out.
I am currently working on my own nonfiction book, devoted to proving that things are not nearly as bad as some would have us believe. Anyone know an open-minded publisher not afraid of unconventional wisdom?