Those of you wishing to get a vicarious glimpse into the lives of the unsavory characters who populate my tales of sitting on barstools and arguing about baseball and politics can get a dose of the latter at Moving the Goalposts, a brand-new, political-themed blog (with a hideous color scheme that will be fixed soon). MtG is an evolution of a de facto mailing list of political and humorous stuff we kick around daily. And just as my friends encouraged me three years ago leave them the hell alone and start a blog, so did I when it came to this venture. We bat from the left side of the plate, some even further left than others. Caveat emptor.

It won’t take a detective to figure out the valued member of my organization to whom I’ve delegated the authority to post occasional opinions and take the Movable Type system for a test-drive. But suffice it to say that the separation between what goes on at that blog and what goes on here shall be as rigid as the division of church and state (unless it’s a Republican-controlled state, that is…). Unless there’s a damn good reason otherwise, what’s on there stays there, period. I got into writing about baseball to get out of writing about politics — you’ve seen how ugly I get when I write angry — and unless it’s particularly relevant to our discussion, I have no wish to broach that subject here, the preceding potshot aside. So check it out if you dare, avoid it like the plague it if its going to raise your blood pressure, and remember, it’s much more fun to argue about baseball.