The Mayor's Vice started out in the summer of 2008 as a very limited interest blog. I conceived that it would have to do with my hobby of pipe smoking, and nothing else. While I can't claim to have only one vice, surely pipe smoking in my most enjoyable one, and I suppose the one most out of the ordinary. Hence the name I gave this blog. Oh yes, just in case you were wondering, Mayor is a title I hold legitimately.

A bit of time has passed, 2010 will be here in a week or two.

I have seriously written for many years now, and blogged almost since the medium was conceived, both in my own name, and more often ghostwriting/ghostblogging for others. This particular blog though received few posts due to its extremely limited scope; it was for me, just a tiny part of a larger vice, a speck of a much broader writing avocation and vocation.

The Mayor's Vice was not the first blog to be located at this particular URL, www.cameron-bailey.com, but it is the first effort here that I am happy with.

As we enter 2010 it is time for cameron-bailey.com to change again. I've decided to broaden it, to allow myself to explore (almost) the full range of my interests here. I hope that you enjoy the new posts, posts that go well beyond the subject of tobacco pipes.

I'm doing this for three reasons.

First of all, I guess that when I think about it, my writing can certainly be considered my biggest vice, it seems that I just can't seem to 'shut the hell up!' While I have plenty of outlets for my scribbling, it seems that cameron-bailey.com should be the primary one.

Secondly, I've received three bits of feedback that propel me to continue with The Mayor's Vice. I know from their staffs that members of the Washington State Legislature are using my post A New Smoking Pipe Or New Taxes? To explain to their constituents how the very complex Washington State property tax system actually works. My good friend, and Champion pipe smoker, Craig is quick to harass me about creating new posts here. Lastly, Dave of Walker Briar Works, a man who lives the pipe assures me that more pipe smokers than I know actually come here to read. I guess, in my mind, if these folks are coming here to read what I write, I ought to be writing a bit more for them.

Lastly, all of us native to the United States were born in a free nation, the freest and wealthiest nation the world has ever known. I firmly believe that we each share a duty to protect our birthright as American's, to pass the liberty we enjoy down to future generations. I fear that we are largely loosing our freedom in this country, and I know that it is my duty to protest that loss. This blog can help serve as that protest.

As I close, I wish to assure my regular readers that The Mayor's Vice will remain a blog with a good deal of solid content about our favorite hobby, the tobacco pipe.

I also though wish to welcome my new readers, readers who are attracted here by posts having little to do with pipes and tobaccos. Together we shall get along swimmingly.