So it's been 6 years since...

Blogging? Why would I need to start writing a blog... Who really cares about me anyway on the series tubes we know as the Internets? I'm just a Civics teacher in Virginia but have always dreamed bigger.

Actually, not to claim myself as avant-garde, but I've been blogging before the term was coined. In college a bunch of us started goofing around with web design, my first site was handmade using Notepad. That being said, what about this thing?

Back in high school I started Perennial Quest as a newspaper column. Then it gained some notoriety, and I had my fair share of controversy. To this day there are a few members of the school staff who don't really like me because of what I wrote nearly 12 years ago. The style was similar of the McLaughlin Group: discuss a number of issues in rapid-fire succession. Most of my columns dedicated a short amount of space per topic depending on what I talked about.

In college, PQ showed up in the Binghamton Review at SUNY Binghamton for a few issues in that format. It took a hiatus after some objections lodged by this liberal... well, someone I knew at the time. Anywho... it went away for awhile.

Cut to 2000 and PQ was brought back, this time as my political talk show on WHRW Binghamton. Those days I dreamt of being what Andrew Wilkow is today: "The Next Generation of Talk Radio." We had a blast on the show and somehow I managed to get some great guests to interview such as Mark Levin, John McCaslin, Harry Browne, amongst others. On Election Day 2000 my co-host and I ran around campus talking to people about campaigns. One of my political science peeps cursed on the air... good times. In 2003 I was done with my education grad work, so PQ was done.

A few weeks ago I started playing around over on Twitter. Since then I've put musings about teaching, politics, and life. I'm not nearly as cool as my buddy Andy who tweets exclusively in haiku form, but I think I'm far from boring. That said, the 140 character limit can be rather constraining. So, I've decided to bring Perennial Quest back. This is mostly for my own amusement but if anyone else finds something redeeming in it I'd be honored. I'll just have to see where the Quest winds up...