Movies have some good lines in them. So what’s the connection between a quote from Apocalypse Now and MCB? Politics, of course! Right now, candidates are lobbing napalm at their competitors and even their spouses are doing it.

By now you’ve figured out that this is editor reveal week here at MCB and you may have noticed that we’re doing two a day. I’m Jim Voorhies and I’m a co-editor and I’ll be covering the liberal and independent segments of politics.

I have been blogging in various forms since 2004 or 2005. I work in technology and my company was thinking about what it could do with blogs so I decided to try it myself out of curiosity. I got lost in the Internet tubes one day and found my way here. I’ve long since forgotten where the exit is, so I’m still here. I’m one of those native Nashvillians you hear about and, except for a few years, I’ve always lived in the Middle Tennessee area. I grew up in Green Hills before there was a strip store in the vacant lot across from the high school. (Yes, I’m kinda old. That’s not shiny newness you see, it’s gray hair.) I finally moved from Davidson County a couple of decades ago into the country and I’m still there. In a touch of irony, as a geek I live in what’s commonly referred to as the last mile. Hell will probably freeze over before I ever get broadband.

But it’s not all about me. It’s about us. My goal is to collect your thoughts here. Whether it’s about which presidential candidate has taken the latest slash and burn comment at their esteemed colleague or the drama of local politics (like the school board member suggesting we end his job), we’d like to feature your words. Feel free to email me or the other editors at the tips email address if you want us to feature something, but even if you don’t I’ll be out there looking for posts. While I’m out looking, here are a few political quotes. (By the way, Ginger, next time can I not follow Malia? She was so good and all I can do is a pale imitation.)

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.  ~W.C. Fields

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.  ~Alexis de Tocqueville

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.  ~H.L. Mencken, 1956

I think it’s about time we voted for senators with breasts.  After all, we’ve been voting for boobs long enough.  ~Clarie Sargent, Arizona senatorial candidate