My friend Claudio Gallegos took a sabbatical from the OC blogosphere last year, and today he returns with his own blog: Sunny D.

In Claudio's words:

I am excited to introduce this effort, and set out to do what I did in my original run- get political discourse going, be edgy, raise eyebrows and all at the same time, be credible. Of course all great blogs have a great team behind them and I will not be doing this alone. Along with me, the first addition is Alex Coe, who will be blogging from a Libertarian/Conservative perspective. Over the next week I will be announcing other additions to the Sunny D Team from all ends of the political spectrum, some will be new faces to the blogosphere and some will be familiar names.

Claudio and I don't agree on much politically, but we both value political discourse and debate centered on issues, actions and facts, rather than personalities, vitriol and half-truths, and I'm hopefully confident his new blog venture will reflect the spirit of civil, cooperative competition that used to characterize the OC blogosphere.

So, welcome back, Claudio! I look forward to reading Sunny D in in the months ahead,.