NEW MISSION STATEMENT FOR professor nerdster: The blog’s goal to highten awareness of difference political developments around the World that should be talked about. What is the drinking age in France? What is the immigration policy of Greece? How does this compare to your country? We want to engage people in meaningful democratic discourse. Public policy needs to be engaging. Ideas should be disseminated in the most accessible medium known to the human species: the Internets also known as the Series of Tubes.