I used to run a fairly successful political blog, which no longer exists.  When out of work, I have several hobbies, the biggest of which is politics.  You have no idea how difficult it has been to avoid the topic here….several of the big lulls were at least partly because all I could think about was this country, the state we’re in, where we’re at as a people…and I went back and forth with myself many times about whether I should write about it.  There are a million political blogs (at least), and I don’t know that I really have much that’s productive to add to the conversation.

That being said, I’m really, truly jarred and happy with last night’s election result.  I think that my cynicism about this country and my fellow countrymen had reached such a nadir that I didn’t think that our leaders and representatives who – seeing that the plane was headed into the side of a mountain – just couldn’t bring themselves to do what was necessary to pull us up and out of the impending disaster.  I’m still skeptical, but at least I have the slightest echo of hope.

Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of satisfied and hopeful USAians today….