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My name is Jack Curtin and I am a freelance writer residing in the Philadelphia region, about 30 miles west of the city. I’ve been unemployed, which is to say, freelancing, for nearly four decades and think I’m getting the hang of it.

These days, I write primarily about the world of craft beer and brewing professionally (you can read about all that here), but in my time I have written extensively about business, health care, sports, books, comics and a whole range of topics for both national and regional publications of all sorts, including a bit of fiction when I can, some of it even published and paid for, which was nice.

Message Redacted is a blog about politics and serves as a companion to the weekly Dubya Chronicles, a cartoon I do with Rob Davis. Check that out and you’ll have a pretty good idea of what’s coming here.

I truly believe that George W. Bush is The. Worst. President. Ever.

This blog is a successor of sorts to The Great Disconnect, my initial political blog, started during the 2000 Presidential Election, and I Can Hear The Mermaids Singing, which was a personal blog with a political bent. Mermaids has been relaunched here and will now be more generally focused on trying to cope with a world in which reality is an outdated concept.