My thoughts exactly

Never in my wildest imagination did I ever imagine myself liking to Newsweek. But Howard Fineman, of all people, has captured the existential reasoning behind my decision to blog:

And there always is an argument about something. We are, after all, the Arguing
Country. We are born to debate, free of top-down rulers and their absolutes; no
other place has such a provenance and responsibility. We are—and must remain, if
we are to thrive—a never-ending series of arguments: about the meaning of
personhood and citizenship; about the structure of government, credit and the
law; about our relationship to the rest of the world and even to the demands of
our own history. The "gun issue," for example, is an element of a larger dispute
over the limits of individualism in a country created for the "general welfare."
Facts change, but the underlying creative tensions do not. The trick is to tap
the heat of the friction in the service of progress as we struggle toward the
Founders' "more perfect union." We've been doing it since 1607.

My thoughts exactly.