The origins of A Progressive Pretzel Town

I started this site because I wanted to share some of my misc thoughts with others; especially my theological/philosophical or political musings. I was using myspace, but thought that blogspot would reach a wider audience with links of my friend's blogs.

The title is part serious and part silly; like the mood I want to create with my blog.

The term "progressive" refers to my progressive/liberal intellectual orientation. The name "Pretzel Town" comes from the Adult Swim late night cartoon Sealab on Cartoon Network. In one episode the character Captain Murphey is upset by something another character does. He says to the other character: "You just bought yourself a ticket to pretzel town buddy." (This, like everything else on the Adult Swim shows is not really supposed to make any sense...it is just random humor.) In the show "Pretzel Town" is bad, but since I have decided to define the terms of my own discourse, "Pretzel Town" is now good. Kind of like if you say something is bad, it may mean that it is really good.