My thoughts entirely.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei

I wanted to incorporate this into my heading but haven't managed it as yet. This, apart from the need to access another blog, sums up why I started blogging and is exactly what I mean by 'Don't leave your brain at the door.'