Wow, 30 hours and no initial posting from the OG. Apologies to all of you reading this then (um, Hi Mischa!). By way of introduction, this is a joint venture by two men, thrown together in the cosmos by a little thing we like to call Duke "We don't even want to mention the word 'lacrosse'" TIP. I served as Lee's teaching assistant last summer, and we decided to combine our respective blogging powers, his being impeccable and invaluable analysis on the political, economic and legal news of the day, and mine being the ability to make said analysis look pretty.

We do have a mission for this blog; while both of us have our own individual blogs, we will be using this forum to take a hopefully profound, mostly serious, sometimes irreverent, but always genuine attempt at making sense of the world around us. While we may betray political leanings on various issues, we are both decidedly independent of not just political parties, but also political labels. Through this blog we will address articles and events on issues as wide ranging as our interests and curiosity allows, that we might help affect a fresh approach to public policy and social thought. We might not have the answers, but we can at least start asking the questions, and in a free society, that is indeed most essential.  Posted by Outlaw Genius  at