There are some things that I’ve been thinking about in my head for a while, and perhaps I should write some of them down and put them up somewhere on the internet. If I start writing here regularly or semi-regularly, I’ll probably write mostly about politics. Politically, I’m mostly, but not reliably, left-wing. I’m very left-wing on economic issues; generally left-leaning on issues involving people’s private lives; kind of conservative, but in a weird and idiosyncratic way, on issues of crime and punishment; in favor of maintaining strong militaries but using them as little as possible on war and peace issues; against everyone on theory and philosophy issues; and pro-science, no matter from which direction science gets attacked. And I tend to think that on a depressingly large number of issues, the Left and the Right might both be right about why the other side’s approach won’t work.
When I’m not writing about politics, I may or may not write about things like history, science, technology, middlebrow entertainment, or general weirdness.
I’m also on Twitter as @raphaelptw and on Tumblr at Randomness from an Observer.
