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About Quincy - The (highly) abridged version
In the blogosphere I go by Quincy, which is a nickname I picked up in high school. I’m a twenty-something work as a file monkey at an insurance company here in Marin County, CA. Odd place to find someone with my pro-liberty beliefs, I know. More on that in a moment. I spend my off time as a trumpet player, classical singer, composer, and conductor. I also spend it blogging, obviously.
So, why the nickname? Well, as you may have imagined, Marin County is not exactly friendly to those who don’t ascribe to the progressive ideology, and as you can gather from my presence at this blog, I don’t. Actually, my interest in liberty was born out of Marin’s progressive orthodoxy. I grew up here, and for a while as an early teen bought into the progressive ideology. Then I began to compare Marin’s politics with the writings of the founding fathers and realized something was wrong. By the time I was a senior in high school, I was quite Jeffersonian in my beliefs and a constant pain in the rear to my civics teacher, who was a devotee of FDR.
In 2004, I started hearing about this blogosphere thing and started finding blogs that interested me. My initial interest was in education, and found the edublog community quite welcoming. On February 7, 2005, I started News, the Universe, and Everything on Blog*Spot. I began to realize what a wonderful medium the blogosphere was for political thought, and began to include classical liberal ideas into my posts. On April 3, I moved off of Blog*Spot after a spate of problems. Since then, I’ve come to know some wonderful people in the blogosphere, including Eric and Brad.
So, that’s it. If you want to get to know more about my philosophy, come on by News, the Universe, and Everything and check it out.
