Is this thing on?
Check, one, two.
And we’re back!
Yes, folks, you can’t keep a good blog down. Or this one.
Both of my old readers reminisce about the good old days when Pros and Cons was a leading blog site of conservative opinion. O.k., that was never the case. But we still hold on to the hope that someday we might get there.
About 18 months ago (or so) I removed Pros and Cons from the blogosphere for reasons which are too numerous and boring to elaborate on here. But, times they are a-changin’, and we have an election to blog about, and the masses are clamoring for my opinion. So, like the good public servant I am, I am bowing to public pressure and restoring the site.
As a refresher for those of you new to the site, here’s how the “About Us” page of the original site read:
Pros and Cons started with one man’s inability to keep his mouth shut and his opinions to himself. The rest is history.I suppose you were looking for a bit more detail. Here ya’ go. . . Shortly after finishing law school and beginning his burgeoning law career, a co-worker introduced a very impressionable and completely unwitting Scott Gosnell to National Review (on Dead Tree). “Just a taste,” she said. “C’mon, everybody’s doing it! Here—the first one’s on the house.” And that marked the beginning of Scott’s public policy addiction, which has consumed more hours of his life than visits to the bathroom (though, as a practical matter, the two are commonly attended to simultaneously). And it didn’t stop at the relatively harmless subscription magazine stage, oh no! The illness progressed to the harder stuff . . . the Wall Street Journal, online magazines, and gasp eventually a cyber-column of his own entitled “The Rant.” Despite numerous attempts at opinion detoxification, and a failed intervention which ended tragically with the destruction of an innocent computer, Scott’s habit raged unabated.
In 2002, Scott began to develop Pros and Cons as an Internet forum to present his comments on politics, social issues, faith, and other random and frequently pointless musings. In other words, he was not content to subject his friends and family to his opinions; he was determined to inflict this punishment on the public-at-large. As the site neared completion—if not quite perfection—a post on National Review’s blogsite put Scott in touch with several other like-minded individuals who were interested in participating in an a conservative blogsite as a forum for the exchange of ideas. Two weeks later, Pros and Cons was born.
Pros and Cons is a “web-based conservative opinion forum” – in other words, a conservative blog site—which has won exactly no awards whatsoever (yet—but we remain optimistic about these sorts of things). Members include lawyers, students, ministers, financial consultants, insurance brokers, military personnel, think-tank contributors, and other professional conservatives. In addition to the blog feature located on the home page, the site also periodically contains opinion columns and other features. Pros and Cons’ mission is to educate, enrich, encourage and amuse, all with an eye to a conservative philosophy which emphasizes a commitment to faith, family, country, and humanity. We hope you enjoy this blogsite. (O.k., we admit, the last sentence is P.C. bull. We really don’t care if you enjoy it or not—we just enjoy writing.)
Well, things have changed a bit. Pros and Cons is now just me, the other contributors having grown up and decided to make something of their lives. But I remain, still subjecting everybody to my opinions—which are, by definition, of course, correct.
S0 bookmark this page, check back often, and enjoy. Oh, and if you want to join the conversation, feel free to comment.
Conservative thought, liberally applied.