History demonstrates that military prowess (the sword) is rarely a long-term or an effective solution to many of the world's problems. And (thankfully!) most of us don't have access to the requisite weapons technology.

But the simple truth of the proverb "The pen is mightier than the sword" gives hope that the pen, when wielded by a thoughtful and sufficiently skilled craftsman, can educate and persuade through the power of the written word. In that way the pen can empower individuals to affect the course of human events, and so perhaps effect solutions to at least some of the world's problems, if only perhaps slowly and incrementally.

And so, from that optimistic outook, being further empowered by the recent development of technology to potentially publish those words world-wide on a nearly cost-free basis, The Sanguine Pen commences.

Although, unlike the sword, the sanguine pen is not deliberately sanguinary, at times the sanguine pen may figuratively prick and draw blood from the ignorant, the irrational, the bigoted. So be it. Such is the nature of persuasion.