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splunge63

splunge63's Journal

September 11, 2019

noob intro

I'm a noob here, but have been heavily following politics for most of my nearly 60 years. Very happy with the 2018 midterms and quite hopeful about 2020. Been lurking here for ~3+ years, it's time to join the party.

Profile Information

Gender: Male
Hometown: Chicago burbs
Home country: USA
Member since: Sat Apr 14, 2018, 01:31 PM
Number of posts: 102

About splunge63

Turning 60 (holy crap!!!) soon. Happily married (for 27 years), don't ask the missus (YMMV), lol. 5 kids, all in college (gulp!) Eldest becomes a doctor of pharmacy in May. 2 dogs (and many departed, sadly). Proud 3rd gen Greek-American (with a quarter Swedish thrown in). Lifelong Chicagoan (save for a Houston detour when I finished undergrad). BS in CS, College of Engineering, Univ of Illinois, UC. MM Kellogg, Northwestern. Voted every election since eligible (save for a few local ones). Many interests, politics is near the top. Ideology: socially progressive, financially less so (but far from conservative). That's all I got.