The Jethro Bowl - Introduction

The coolest thing about this blog is that it really doesn't matter if anyone reads it. These conversations have evolved from email conversations that span hundreds of pages of correspondence over much of a decade throughout our friendship. It is truly good for us to spend time debating and understanding regardless of who's listening. Thankfully, making a blog costs nothing - so Jon and I thought we'd post these online for our friend's entertainment. We hope whoever reads this is intrigued and that our thoughts cause new and interesting thoughts to rock your fragile little world. 

A brief history of our friendship would quickly explain how Jon and I grew up in Chesapeake Virginia together. Our moms forced us into friendship and neither of us much liked one another at first. Jon had been home schooled to that point (about 8th grade) and I had spent my time touring the country's public school system in Ohio, Texas and Virginia. Jon loved music - I loved math. We eventually formed a very strong friendship that followed both of us from middle school through our first significant relationships with girls to college and finally to our first careers and marriage (oh and for me I've also managed to populate my house with twin girls).

The coolest thing about our friendship - from my perspective, is that it totally shows how great a friendship can be - and how two completely different men can come together and form a bond, that is extremely rare among men and manages to sharpen both men and have vast beneficial consequences that ripple outward in our lives much like jean valjean's life did in Les Miserables. This blog will have two rules - Our posts will be approximately 1 page long each, and will abide in our current thesis statement (It's over to the right of the post).