I'm the founder and main contributor to 4&20 blackbirds(http://4and20blackbirds.wordpress.com/), a progressive Montana blog on national, state, and local politics and culture.
My online persona -- Touchstone -- derives from the ducal fool in Shakespeare's play, As You Like It. In the play and as a court jester, Touchstone's job is to point out the folly in others; of course he does so with a too great regard for his own opinion.
I live in Missoula, Montana, with my wife and two children. I'm in the computer software industry and do some neighborhood grassroots organization for the Missoula County Democrats, but I have no other official political association with any organization.
