Current events, world history, psychology... it all meshes together in my mind. I've spend a lifetime educating my self and forming opinions.

You see... I was very sickly as a child. And so, when all the rest of the kids were outside learning to play ball and such, I was in the house learning how to not drop dead.

I was also very close to my father and he was gone a lot to this place called Viet Nam. Instead of learning the rules of the playground, I grew up listening to Walter Cronkite tell me all about the war in SE Asia, the history and reasons why... and about all the civil unrest that the war was causing here at home.

This started an unusually early interest in politics and history within me and I pride myself on being as well informed as I can, from ALL points of view. I've grown to have a strong point of view myself, but as long as you come by yours HONESTLY, I don't care if we disagree. Some of my best friends in real life are on the other side of the political aisle, yet we are still best friends.