First off, I’d like to say I’m very grateful for the opportunity to write on this blog. I was born in Massachusetts and lived there for awhile until my family moved to Vermont, where we stayed until my early teens when we moved to North Carolina. So though I don’t live there anymore I feel I have a connection to New England through my family that still live there and childhood experiences. I even still root for the Pats and the Sox. Beyond that, I enjoy a lot of geeky things – I played the trombone in high school and college marching band, I’m a big Star Trek fan, and my video game collection takes up a good sized bookcase.

I am a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in Physics. And though North Carolina is a red state, Chapel Hill is certainly an island of blue in it. I like to think, however, that having my views challenged so often by the student body made me actually think about my views and ask if they were really correct. As is apparent by my writing here, I weighed the facts and realized that liberalism is indeed, as a prominent radio host is want to say, a mental disorder. Even my fiancée, who’s a recovering liberal, found the lack of intelligent discourse on the left appalling enough to hop the political fence. And all that was before I even met her. Speaking of marriage, after this summer I may move somewhere else, anywhere from Kentucky to Rhode Island. But I’ll always be a Yankee (especially to her) and I’ll always be a Tar Heel (especially in the NCAA tourney). Hence the name.

Politically, I’m mostly conservative with a good helping of libertarian (mostly on the social issues). I’m anti-death penalty, pro-life, and pro-gay rights, though not gay marriage. So take all that for what you will. One thing that irritates me about some conservative commentators these days is that I will listen or watch them take a position that is correct but then bumble the defense of it. They argue like a liberal – thinking completely with emotions, not the brain – and I want to avoid that when I can. I hope to say something to get people thinking once in awhile, and I look forward to being here.

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