Many people are offended by my C-D posts, so I shall endeavor to outline what I am doing here.

I think of myself as a First Principlist. That is, I try to cut through the accumulated overlays of dogma, and approach topics on the basis of established data and logical progressions. No doubt I still have some dogmas of my own, but at least I'm working on that.

Most of my posts will fall into one of two categories:

1. A direct answer to the question raised by...