Greetings

Good morning everyone. Welcome to the new improved Blinq -- five Inquirer metro columnists unleashed on philly.com to share random thoughts, post-scripts, reader rants and just about anything we couldn't - or wouldn't - put in our columns.

Consider this a test of my own emergency broadcast system; ie - making sure I can post before I've had breakfast and come up with something extremely important to say.

:)