So, this'll be my first post. It's tempting to introduce myself, or explain why it is that I'm writing a blog, or somesuch nonsense. The reality though is that it's wholly unremarkable. I expect, all in all, that this blog will be fairly unremarkable. That is, it will, if I do my job exceedingly well, seem like a sickly version of some of the blogs you can find in "My Daily Reading".

I'd love to do some of the policy thinking that goes in to the great Matt Yglesias' blog, but I haven't got anything like the chops for that. I'd like to write with something of the moral force that is wielded by Hilzoy (righteous ethicist version), or Ta-Nehisi Coates (self-effacing, humble, saintly version), but I'm just not that good of a person. I don't have the expertise of Tyler Cowen, or the journalistic fervor of Emptywheel. However, I am a pretty bright cat, and I wouldn't be writing publicly if I didn't think that every now and again I could hit one out of the park.

Let me give you an idea of roughly what you can expect to find on here. It's a little hard to know in advance what topics will end up being focused on here, but in rough order of expected frequency: politics/current events, sports, fiction, and video games. At first, I'll probably just be writing one mid-length post per day, and probably about one longer essay-ish thing per week. As time goes on, if I take a liking to it, and I have one or two people reading, I might ramp things up, but time will tell.