Hello Everybody

Hi, Tony invited me to periodically contribute to this blog. So, I just wanted to take a quick opportunity to introduce myself.

My name is Chris C. Davis. I am a 28-year-old small business owner. I live in Columbus, Ohio. I am registered as an independent. I vote democrat about 99% of the time. And I consider myself left of either of our major parties. My ideal government would be a pure and uncorrupted form of socialism, the likes of which the world has not seen successfully executed to date.

I suffer from a condition for which the only treatment is to take in at least 2-3 hours of political news, opinion, and commentary a day. My interest in politics has actually further crippled a social life that was already crippled by an interest in books that was further crippling a social life that was already on life-support due to an obsession with music. So, as you can see, I was in need of another extra-curricular activity and Tony graciously provided that to me. I look forward to providing another voice to this blog.

I will leave you with a passage from a Michael Eric Dyson essay entitled "Why I Am An Intellectual." This passage speaks of the beauty and the power that one can obtain when one empowers oneself with knowledge, and also of the action and change that that empowerment can spur. I like to think that every person that starts a blog, writes for a publication, or asserts their ideas on the public through various other mediums is, in fact, trying to better the world around them or open the eyes of others in a way that might endow them with a new perspective. So Tony should be applauded for taking the first step in that direction. And I'd like to thank him once again for giving me the opportunity to contribute. Dyson writes:

"When I get knowledge, I get desire: I get hungry for the same liberty I find in the books I read, the science I study, the music I hear. I want my society as eloquent as the poetry I memorize. I want my living conditions to match the beauty of the algebraic formula I work. I want my people as blissful and harmonious as the symphony I listen to. I may also want to stamp out the horrors I read about, put an end to the suffering I hear in the music of the desperate, or use what I know to help the subjugated. I might get inspired or enraged, mad or distraught, stumped or determined to act."