Shawn,
You don't happen to post at Newsbusters, do you? I know a Shawn there, and if I was using my SN from there here, he would know me.
The reason I use the dorky one I have, is this is the name my daughter made for me the day she got her first computer about 11 yrs ago. I keep it as my default go-to name. I have never really blogged until the last two years. I suck at computer stuff, for one thing. I used to be so busy with running my business, my kids were still younger teens, and so I just didn't. Now, I have too much free time, hate tv, and mostly just read. I never thought of being anything BUT Conservative, my whole family is, it was how I was raised, and I never was near a lib until college, and other than the profs didn't meet that many of those where I went to schoool.