So in the seventh year of the occupation by the clown prince of the Texas oil baron’s wannabe mafia this blog commences. ….
Those of you who have come over from my stumbleupon site, welcome! I haven’t posted there in a while due to the combined obstacles of my Costa Rican ISP and an unusually tenacious cyber stalker. Funny story…
I have found that I can no longer keep my words in and my conscience is getting stretch marks from the effort. But I have a fresh batch of rants and observations that I just slapped on the grill for your continued intellectual amusement.
For those of you just meeting me in this format: Welcome! My name is Merlyn Hunter and I am an expatriate American systems engineer living and working in Costa Rica. I have found in my year here that the best way to be an American right now in these sad times is to not live in America. I love my country, but I am “seeing other people” right now. I have been a freelance writer for some time right now and have made a few appearances in a few columns under a few pen names. Though my politics tend to lean a little to the left a majority of the time, I also have a few conservative views as well. And I am informed enough to know the difference between a respectable “true conservative”, a loathsome neocon, and the neocon thralls who wrongfully believe themselves to be the former.
I want this blog to help give people a fresh perspective of freedom from someone who has taken a step outside the bubble and away from the background noise. Is freedom the ability to sit in a warm safe cocoon of high tech neon bathwater and say “whee, look how free we are?” Or is it something else, something we dropped along the way running around between world wars? Maybe it’s the state of mind that carried us into the 20th century inventing just about every cool thing imaginable culminating in us smacking golf balls on the moon. So my blogs will be coming from a politically astute computer geek trying to make sense of where the homeland has drifted while making sense of a new life in a 2nd (and a half) world country. Hopefully I’ll be able to get some n’yuks out of you all as well…..