Opening Volley

If you are here, welcome, glad to have you, etc. You likely know me quite well already, so let's dispense with introductions, shall we?  (Although, in case you are a stranger, you can learn a bit more about me from my Google+ profile, a link to which is provided in the sidebar.)

I am not sure what I want to accomplish with this blog. I suppose my primary intent is to avoid further subjecting my Facebook friends to my musings, which is to say: to protect myself from the silent contempt of those who do not appreciate my frequent posts. (Whether or not I actually post things here remains to be seen.) To some extent, I'd also like to make this space a bit more personal, which is to say: to [more] freely express the things that I always ultimately regret posting on Facebook. Finally, I would like to virtually workshop some of my writing here (although, again, this may or may not actually occur).

A brief word regarding this blog's title: "virtus dormitiva" is an expression I recently came across in a blog post by the Cato Institute's Julian Sanchez (who, incidentally, is quite a brilliant thinker and writer -- too bad he's been lost to libertarianism, an affliction which seems to affect a disproportionate number of heterosexual males of above-average intellect). I found the expression -- coined by Moliere in The Imaginary Invalid, and used to describe a particularly florid tautology -- amusing at the time, and, for some reason, it came to mind when contemplating a title for this blog. Interpret that as you will.

Okay. Enough with the preliminaries. Let's dive right in.