Hello

My name is Erich, and as the info bar says, I am a twenty-six year old Accounts Receivable "technician" for a small bottled-water company in Rockford, IL. I went to college, partially to prove that it was worthless but mostly to earn a degree in Political Science. I succeeded admirably in both regards. I am married, the father of a fine daughter, and generally split my time equally between bitching about the Democrats and eating fried crap. I can also do these things simultaneously.

This, "Accounts Political," is my first blog and this, "Hello," is my first post. Before I got married, when I was splitting my time equally between bitching about the Democrats and bitching about women, I did an awful lot of writing, generally on those topics. It was all crap, but at least I didn't show it to anyone. Flash-forward to the twenty-first century. It has since become popular to take the same sort of garbage I hammered out in hippie coffees hops on Brady Street and post it for the world to see. So now I'm a blogger.

I'm going to try to keep this mostly about politics, though it's entirely possible I'll end up failing in that goal and talking incessantly about "Lost" or something. I hope to post every few days, more if the news warrants it, less if I've got crap to do. I also intend to do some very limited live-blogging, probably only during the Presidential Debates and Election Night. Which means I'll probably post a lot when there's nothing going on and immediately stop whenever the news starts coming in. If it's good enough for the New York Times, it's good enough for me.

Finally, it wouldn't right to start out this blog without a shout-out to Above His Shoulders, a new memoir I had a small part in crafting over the course of the previous year. You should go check out the site. And if you want an autographed copy, I can like totally hook that up for you. Ok. Catch you all later.