And we're back!

Dear loyal Whiskey Tango Farley readers:

We're back.  Alden is back in the District of Columbia, and he is back in school.  And Whiskey Tango Farley is back!  

The original impetus for this website was that Alden would be traveling in a pretty wild part of the world and the mass-group-email thing didn't really appeal to him.  And most of his friends use Google Reader or some other RSS feeder, so Whiskey Tango Farley would be just as effective as group emails, but less in your face blah-blah-look-at-me-I'm-traveling.  Also, the Syrian government reads everyone's emails, so Alden felt that maybe more candid (and funny) observations could be shared via a quasi-anonymous blog with less chance of finding himself chatting with the mukhabarat.  Given his propensity for drunk and disorderly conduct while in foreign countries, the less he ran into the police, the better.

So now Alden is back in DC.  The School for Advanced International Studies is back in session, and one of Alden's favorite things about all his recent book learnin' is that he has further fine-tuned his Bull Shit Filter.

So prepare yourself: Whiskey Tango Farley will attempt to be a regularly updated source of Alden's patient rants regarding economics, politics, society, and anything else he feels ought to be of general interest.  We will travel together through expansive fields of rent-seeking and creative destruction towards a glorious escape from autarky.  (Does that even make sense?) There will be laughter; there will be tears. But what we are working towards are insightful little posts that make the reader go, "Huh. That's cool. But Alden must have too much time on his hands to have thought of that; has he started any of his term papers yet?"

Alden also got a shout-out at P$'s awesome blog today because he has a dangerous curiosity of private military contractors.  The shout-out made him feel warm and fuzzy.

So coming soon, to an RSS feeder near you, will be Whiskey Tango Farley with a slightly new focus.  Get excited.

Side Note:  Alden's enjoyed writing in the third person, but he isn't wedded to it.  If you feel strongly one way or the other, he will accept votes for the next 72 hours.