About This Blog

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On October 30th, 2010 I took place in something historic: The Rally to Restore Sanity (or as it later became known: The Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear. The rally, put together by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, was a rally for people too busy to go to rallies and who felt that shouting was annoying, counterproductive, and terrible for your throat. In other words: it was a gathering for the majority of us in the USA who weren't members of the lunatic fringe when it came to politics. A rally for the civil.

It was one of the greatest experiences of my life! It was so encouraging to see so many people stand up for simple things such as civil discourse and journalism that focuses on facts an not fear or division. I had so many great discussions with people of all political affiliations, and even a few that were unaffiliated.

It's been a few weeks now, and I've been thinking that 200,000+ people are willing to go all the way to Washington, D.C. to rally for sanity, why not take that message to the blogosphere? So that brings me to why I created this blog. I know that while the media focuses on the extreme people that they do not represent the majority of Americans. Deep down there are many of us capable of not demonizing the other person because of party affiliation or policy stance and that do genuinely want to work together to solve the difficult problems we face as a nation. Why does the message of civility have to end at the rally? There are still many people keeping sanity alive o the event's Facebook page. Why not take it mainstream and open up the discussion even more?

Here's how this is going to work:

This blog will be open to all viewpoints. I am in the process of getting writers. If you are interested, please e-mail me here. Each day different people will be blogging about the events/people of the day and what a sane response would be to those things or if the article focuses on a specific issue what some sane solutions might be. We will even have a sanest person of the day award. This is all kind of vague I realize, but I want to get this going and see where it takes us. Hang in there, this will get smoother as we go along.

Here are the ground rules for writers as well as those commenting on their writings:

1. You must back your arguments up with facts.
2. No demonizing of someone solely because of their party affiliation.
3. No name-calling.
4. No tabloid news.
5. Basically, it boils down to Jon's rule for the rally: when in doubt, don't be douchie.

I know I probably didn't articulate all of this as well as Jon Stewart, but I gave it my all. I look forward to hearing from all of you!