August 15 2005 So here I am, trying a new blog service. They made it sound easy. They made it sound free. I've gotten to distrust a lot of so-called free services on the web, simply because they have too many ads crawling over your whatever, or they're to simple/complex for any sane person to use, or their services are crashing, or they leave shit in your computer that has no business being there, or their service/help consists of a bunch of endless and vague FAQ's that get you nowhere.

Originally I had thought of having a blog simply because I have been keeping a hand-written journal since 1973 - that's right, thirty-two years' worth of my rambling, bitching, moaning, poetry, scholarly research (back in my biblical-historical days), copying of favorite quotes (I was quote the literateur) and other things one writes. Since I got this computer back in early April of this year, I have several on-going journals stacked inside of it, but I wanted some things public. Provided that this service delivers, I should be posting some pungent material when I do show up here. Although I do not believe that I am a total singularity, the chances are good that I do not think like most of the people in America upon a variety of subjects.

• Politically I am a libertarian with strong anarchistic leanings - the less government the better.
• I have not been happy with the present administration so-called, but in this I am hardly alone. Still, there are others who like the Guy. Sheeesh! What a woild!
• I am not in favor of religion. I am in favor of spirituality. Religion binds and kills the heart. Spirituality opens and liberates it. I am not an atheist. I listen to others on this subject, and will answer questions if they are not too nasty or not obviously leading to my having to read a bunch of Bible quotes about why I am going to hell. A note to those who feel obligated on this point: A Biblical text is not proof that you are right about something. A Biblical text is a Biblical text, period. To say it is proof for something which you may believe (or say you believe but do not) is a poetic statement, it is using the poetic function of the mind, and is not open to logical analysis. Should you attempt such, you are then on my turf - I am a poet among other things and not very good at logical analysis...but I really don't wanna be bogged down on this point.
• I believe in total sexual liberty. I do not think that the government, any government has the right to interfere with the sexual nature of anyone. I am, however, a civilized person, and in proclaiming sexual liberty for all, this does not mean that I approve of rape and/or the imposed, unwanted sexual torture of others. To rape someone is to take away another person's sexual liberty. Don't know why some people find that so hard to understand.

So far this has been a piece of cake. I have a bunch of 1"x1" miniavatars which I may splatter across the blog as days go by. In the meantime I really oughta get one of those books and learn HTML.

Look for future entries, at least one of them anyway, to have URLs to my favorite places. Also, I'm not the only one who will post material here. I'm "Morion," and others will have their own made-up names clearly visible in the blog. So you all - whoever you are - have a good day now, y'hear?