My first blog post

Time to start my blog.

I have been writing and posting to the NOW (with Bill Moyers) discussion board since it started in 2002

I entered my first forum on the Internet at Washington Week in Review (the Friday night PBS program that has 4 journalists discussing the week's political news) in October 2001.

I have been "arguing for America" as I call it.

I wish the rightwingers had not chosen to turn the Great American Dialogue into a nasty rude playfield.

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I have a fairly substantial personal website, which showcases my professional photography, my computer graphics, and some of my writings.

It takes quite a while for me to post a new page, what with getting all the html correct, so it is not as large as it should be.

I taught Video Production up at the local college, for a few years.

I've taken my workingman's tour of the world through about 26 countries, and have always lived off the local economy. So I've worked in about 9 countries...at least a hundred jobs of totally different skills...everything from hi tech to pre-industrial agriculture in Third World countries. From legal to blackwork. I speak 7 languages, and understand 10 other languages, and kind of understand a couple dozen others.

I've lived completely without money or possessions for 2 years at a time...twice: once in America, from 1970-74, and in Europe Asia and Africa.

Anyway, here goes my first blog post.

--outrider