Blogging since 2002. Interviewed by Reuters and BBC and published in the Washington Examiner.

I am an accounting professional, and EMT. I tend to libertarian / conservative in my perspective on life, and consider myself a lapsed Catholic (the Church left me). I am married to a lovely woman I met on the Internet, before the World Wide Web got popular, and we have a family of four cats.

I was born and raised in a small town in upstate New York. Went to St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York, and finally fell into this profession. Discovered computers in college where we learned on a Xerox mainframe (!). I've been a member of the Lions' Clubs, a volunteer firefighter, and for the last twelve years a NYS certified EMT-D. From about 1986 to 1992 I ran a small, portrait photography business, and a few of those photos will turn up on my blog from time to time. I continue to be interested in photography.

I married for the first time at age 40. My wife and I met on the Internet, through a mail list serve, before the World Wide Web. I plyed the Net in those days with my friends Archie, Jughead and Veronica. A bunch of wild and crazy guys up at the University of Minnesota were playing around with something call Mosaic, a product that they said would let you view photographs on the Net. Believe it or not!

I began blogging on Live Journal in January 2002, and set up my own site a few months later.

My passion is ...

emergency medical services

I know too much about ...

the War on Terror

My parents always told me ...

don't eat yellow snow

My childhood ambition ...

was to become king

My favorite memory ...

is my wedding, in a park gazebo on a warm summer day

Why I write ...

because I'm free and able to

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading David Weber, Eric Flint, John Ringo and Laurel Hamilton

My first job ...

was selling lettuce at a farm stand for 12 cents a head

My best moment ...

is everytime I can help someone in need

My inspiration ...

is my father, gentle, patient and tolerant

Politics, News & Issues > US Immigration Views on illegal immigration in the US

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Immigration is important to me. I am the result of immigration. Hard working men and women who gave up their lives in foreign lands and came to the United States to make a better life for themselves and their descendants. Nearly all my ancestors arrived before the country regulated immigration. As the line goes "They were poor men, with dirty faces". They followed Gunny Highway's dictum, and adapted, overcame, and improvised. They became Americans, and America became great through their efforts.

What bothers me about the illegal immigration issue is the apparent racist nature of the deb...

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