Okay. Most of you don’t need a “Welcome” post. I’ve been blogging here for 20 years. Well, actually, not quite. For the first few months back at the end of 1999, I posted things almost every day, but blogs and blogging were not yet a thing. So I simply posted to a personal website. Then, several months later, I registered the domain “ilind.net” and began posting here. It’s been a long run.

Those of you who are regular readers know that I don’t often blather on and on with my own personal opinions about things and events.

I do like to put you in touch with “facts,” and primary documents, public records, etc. And all I ask in return is that you try to engage those facts, whether or not you agree with the conclusions I have drawn from them, and not waste our time with the kinds of opinionated blather that I personally shy away from.

Now, bouncing to the present. I’ve tried to connect to the substance of what’s emerged as the backbone of the impeachment process, such as sworn testimony of various figures, including those Trump administration appointees who were willing to testify under oath.

As I’ve said, all I really can ask is that you try to engage with those facts.

But the other side of it is that if you don’t, and if you choose to just offer up comments filled with conspiracy theories and varied tangents that don’t address those facts, I’m no longer willing to provide an open soapbox to broadcast your comments on this site.

Several of you have whined and accused me of “censorship” when I failed to “approve” one or more of your comments. I see it as “editing” which allows me to continue to challenge readers to engage in and focus on the primary facts before us.

I would prefer that readers accept my challenge to address the “facts.” But if you don’t, and you’re among the few who are unhappy that I have not approved one or more of your recent comments when they came up for moderation. Well, I’m okay with your being unhappy. Really.

You’re welcome to stay around and try other kinds of comments. Or you’re equally free to look elsewhere for your online entertainment.

Enough said.