Article from the St. Louis Post Dispatch trying to convince Mercedes to move from Alabama to Missouri.

St. Louis Post Dispatch Article

Any thoughts?

the point of this blog...

Over the past few years, I've participated in hundreds of discussions / arguments on facebook, mostly over politics and religion. The more discussions I have, the more I realize that they are all essentially pointless. I'm fairly certain that no one has ever changed their opinion about anything because of a facebook argument.

At the same time, I have become fascinated with the diversity of the people arguing, or more specifically, the lack thereof. Most of my friends are very similar to me - 30 something, southern, white and protestant (usually from very conservative churches). Almost all of them are well educated and thoughtful. Most come from loving, stable homes and many have started wonderful families.

I'm amazed that people from such similar backgrounds can have such differences in opinions.

Anyway, I thought it would be interesting to have a blog where the point is not to argue or convince anyone, but simply to find out exactly where our opinions differ and why.

If nothing else, it will keep all my arguments off facebook, which I'm sure will make a lot of people happy.