Many of you in my sphere of blogs already know that I don't make any bones about being in the middle of things when it comes to politics. I bother many people on the far right because they don't understand how I could come to some of the conclusions I do about social issues. I've actually been called a liberal once or twice before. You see, I'm what's called a centrist. I'm not really right enough to be considered a right-wing nut-job, but I'm not left enough to be accepted by the liberal wieners.
I'm not pro-choice, but I'm not 100% pro-life. I believe life begins when it is formed and has nerve endings; somewhere around the start of the second trimester.
I believe that the media is 100% biased. They're biased for the left. They're also biased for the right. The bias just depends on who's writing the news. Both sides have "misreported" things.
I could go on about some of my "middle of the road" ideas, but there's no point in that. He point I'm trying to make is that there is no central point for the centrists of the blogosphere, or at least none that I've found. That's why I'm starting one.
Yes, as of today there will be a place for those with views that decent from the party line to go and rant. Eventually there will be more to it than a simple blogger blog, but we have to start somewhere. We can start at Grand Centrist Station.
The idea of Grand Centrist Station was thought up by its two founding members, Jeremy H. Bol from American Warmonger, and Jesse Williams of LOSLI fame. We don't want to be too selective of who we allow in. Hit counters don't matter. Blogging frequency doesn't matter. The thing that matters the most is that you have a willingness to listen to both sides of an argument without locking out the other side of a rational discussion.
If you're one of those people drop me a line and I'll put you up for review. As we're just starting things up the only review will be a thumbs up from Jesse and me. More information will follow.
jeremy.bol@gmail.com
Respectable opinions, and an ingenious idea. I like the name too. I will check it out.
Posted by: Jay at May 23, 2005 10:45 AMFame is a fickle fickle friend Harry.
Posted by: jess @ LOSLI at May 23, 2005 03:59 PMMonsieur Jeremy, I must take issue with your equivalence of moderate and reasonable. Merely splitting the difference does not constitute being fair minded.
For my part, I like to think that I'm reasonable, and open to persuasion against my instinctive position. I supported the Iraq War, for example. I even changed my mind once. Yet few people would regard me or my Culpepper Log as "moderate."
I'm just saying that truth is not determined by taking a poll and finding the median position.
Posted by: Al Barger at May 30, 2005 05:08 PM