You won’t find out everything about me by reading laborlou.com.

I almost never mention friends and family by name.

Or talk too much about my work.

But it’s not hard, for example, to guess my age.  Especially when I write about the roots of my pragmatic progressivism:

How the “new left” blew it when we deserted Humphrey in ’68 and handed the white house to Nixon.

I’m also pretty transparent about my affinity for the labor movement.  Though I’ll admit to a love / hate relationship with American unions, it’s mostly love.

From time to time I’ll recall Bensonhurst Brooklyn, where a working-class Jewish kid could pick up a few “street smarts” before his escape.

My sweetest reminisces, though, are reserved for Vermont, where – in the late ‘70s – I covered state politics and town meetings for a radical weekly newspaper.

Then, at the start of the Reagan era, I was off to Los Angeles.

And watched – with some amazement - L.A.’s gradual transformation into the most progressive big city / county / region in the U.S.

Which takes us to 2012 and my 16^th presidential election.

I opened this site nearly three years ago to comment on Barack Obama.  I expect to spend the rest of this year talking about – among other things – the absolute necessity of re-electing him.

Urging you to set aside your frustrations and disappointments.

Begging you to work hard for this president and the other “down ticket” democrats.

Agreeing with you about how our political allies take advantage of us and continue to sell us out.

And promising to air out that argument.

In 2013.