Thinking out loud...

So, the 6th post in 2 days; don't worry, I'm sure I will reduce this frenetic pace once I've run out of steam, or got myself a life,  or stopped procrastinating from the work which I am most definitely not using this blog to avoid...

I'm addressing a readership as if I had one, of course, but hey, I figure if I write it, they will come (to badly paraphrase a well known saying). I have, rather pathetically, adopted the habit of compulsively checking my view statistics whenever I open up my web browser as if I hope that in my absence thousands of eager fellow politics nerds will have arrived to pore over my naive scribblings for their inner meaning.

So this post is really intended to flag up some of the things that I am thinking of writing about in the near (or far) future, here goes:

• A close reading / deconstruction of Lee Strobel's "The Case For Faith", or if that seems too much hassle, maybe I'll just point and laugh at its unbelievably weak arguments. 
• Reporting on the US Supreme Court hearings on gay marriage; I'd like to have a look at the more reasonable "anti-gay marriage" proposals (hold on, read the rest of the sentence - I haven't spontaneously become a bigot) such as taking the state out of the marriage altogether, or the arguments of radical gay rights activists against the conservative nature of marriage.
• I might try my hand at some fiction, though I am weary of entirely humiliating myself!
•  The obligatory drone post must be on its way soon - they are, without doubt, one of my pet issues.
• A continuation of the "My Politics" series which began with my views on libertarian socialism - I hope to cover my stances on religion, social policy, foreign policy among others.
• I am considering, as a means of exploring my politics in more detail and educating myself and my readers on political issues, taking the "political compass" questionnaire and answer each question with an in-depth blog post detailing the main arguments for and against and my position. This would be a mammoth project and would probably last months if not years but might be interesting to structure my blogging along the way...