Friday, January 19th 2007
Oh yeah, hi…
I’ve posted a couple times here already, but I never got around to formally introducing myself. My name’s James Fullmer, and with Pat moving on to bigger and better things I’ll be helping Chris keep this place updated.
I’m definitely not the libertarian Pat is (few people are) so the blog will probably be taking a little bit of a different direction, politically. I don’t really fit into any of those nice premade labels like paleo-con or neo-con or ex-con - if any of you have read the book Crunchy Cons, by Rod Dreher, that describes my views fairly well, but even there I have some areas of disagreement - so I’ll refrain from trying to explain myself and just let you figure things out as I go. In the next couple of days I’ll post my score from that OKCupid politics test Pat posted up here a couple months ago, along with an explanation of why I think it’s a totally bunk test that can’t accurately represent one’s political views.
Anyway, just a little about myself, I’m currently the Managing Editor of the Patriot. I’m a third year Business and Poli Sci major with a City Planning minor, and like Chris and Pat I’m originally from Orange County - specifically, Fullerton - California. My main political claim to fame is that President Nixon went to my rival high school, though this was long before my own high school was actually built, so I guess I can’t take too much pride in that fact.
That’s all for now. Peace.
I agree about the test. There’s definitely what you believe and what you think the government should enforce.
Comment by Ghost of Clark Kerr — 1/19/2007 @ 2:20 pm
The questions on those tests aren’t very specific. If they could ask you why you believed something then it would reflect your views a lot better than their simple either/or structure. That test is made for people who believe things along party lines.
Comment by Splinter — 1/19/2007 @ 2:45 pm
Dudes, between the two of you, you basically stole my post. Good points, and I’ll try and expand on them a little bit when I get around to making the post.
Comment by jfullmer — 1/19/2007 @ 11:05 pm