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Dear Friends and Family,

My friend Erik Swedberg has to be one of the most amazing drinking buddies in the world. -dx

There are few things in life more beautiful and symbolic than baseball.

I like to think that I have a wide range of interests, and I try to devote as much time to each one as I possibly can. They can be categorized into the following areas:

• the Muses and their descendents,
• politics,
• baseball,
• international travel,
• pen-pals and
• comparative religion.

If you are interested in being a pen-pal of mine, please visit my contact page and send me an email. I am currently particularly interested in penpals in Hindi, German, Latin and Panjabi, but welcome all correspondents.

I believe that the privileges of citizenship within the republic are obtained by, and, furthermore, entail, the obligation to participate in determining the course of the republic. It is not only voting, but participation in the political process, that is critical. Towards that end, I am an active member of my local Democratic Club, a donor and volunteer with various campaigns and PAC's.


Party Affiliation

I am a proud, registered Democrat. I was at one point a Republican, but that affiliation began to change in the mid-nineties, culminating in my formal resignation from the Republican Party after the 2000 election.

Beliefs

• I believe that the legitimacy of government comes from its capacity to allow people to live moral lives.
• I believe that the moral nature of a society can be measured by the degree to which it protects and empowers the weakest, most disadvantaged and degraded members of it.
• I believe that violence is the greatest tragedy in human History.
• I believe that of all forms of violence, poverty is the worst.
• I believe that holding certain immutable aspects of a person's being against him is morally indefensible.
• I believe that institutions and traditions that have existed for millennia represent tried and true solutions to social problems that we should be very careful about overturning and tinkering with. For every intended consequence of a change, there is at least one unintended consequence which we cannot foresee.
• I believe that we live in a society embedded in History, and that as such, although we strive to live according to principles of natural law, previous failures of our societies in History have necessitated that we collectively act to mitigate the consequences of those failures, perhaps entailing a short term violation of natural law in order to acheive a society in which the protection of natural law includes all.

I use a digital camera to take pictures of just about anything and everything, and I frequently get requests from my friends to share these pictures.

Getting hold of me is sometimes difficult because I tend not to respond to email that I don't consider to be top priority and I don't answer telephone calls from nos.