I have something like seventeen blog posts in the works: skeletons of themes awaiting the flesh of words.  The topics include free will, taxes, originality, my mom, my best friend, business and politics.  Saying what I would like to say about these subjects calls for more than a Facebook-like attention span — therefore I ask friends of this blog to bear with me between posts.  I cannot possibly produce enough output to sate the maw of the internet, and so I will not try.