Friday, May 18, 2007

Inaugural Post

Good morning friends, and welcome to the latest and greatest in weblogs! As the title for my blog implies, this blog will chronicle my opinions of life and all that is great and good in America. My goal is not for this blog to be some sort of online diary, but rather a forum for serious ideas and discussion. The main reason that I first thought of writing a blog was to use it as a round-table for discussing and analyzing the latest in politics and political policy, but it also crossed my mind that there are a vast number of political blogs out there already. Thus, while I still intend to make a worthwhile contribution to the modern political debate, I also intend to chronicle a much broader range of my interests as well, including sports (Red Sox baseball and Patriots football mostly), religion, history, and literature. Regardless of what is being discussed, I want this to be a forum for serious debate and opinion, (And there will be room for appropriate levity, too!) I welcome all opinions, and ask only that my readers keep their comments intelligent, polite, and clean. Welcome Aboard!

As a side-note, to those of you who are wondering about the origin of the address and blog title, they are a reflection of my great love for the work of J.R.R. Tolkien, my favorite author. Calenardhon was the name of the area in Middle Earth that later became the realm of Rohan and means "The Green Province." I thought that it represented America as well as any other name from Tolkien's work, and I like the sound of it, besides. Tar- is a prefix that means "high" and thus you have "high green province," which translates very well into my blog title of "High America."

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