Google launched this morning a policy blog. So, “Welcome” from everyone here at Verizon’s PolicyBlog!

When I read you were going to blog do public policy advocacy in a “Googley way,” it jogged a file in my cluttered brain.  Filled as it is with useless and trivial recollections,* I recalled hearing that word uttered in a phase (“that was a wicked googly!) in a Cricket match during Jerry Seinfeld AmEx ad. 

So I opened Wikipedia and learned that in Cricket a “googly” is a trick pitch, essentially a spinning curve ball designed to fool the batter or wicket guy or whatever he’s called in Cricket. 

So to prevent the tragically creative from accusing your Googley blog of also being “googly,” I’d parse out that term carefully. 

So welcome and I look forward your contributions to the on-line high tech public policy discussion.

*To be sure, “useless” and “trivial” does NOT refer to fact that Bucky Dent used Mickey Rivers bat for the home run he hit in the 1978 playoff game vs. the Red Sox – that’s important knowledge, especially this year.