About 15 years ago, my friend Rich and I decided to start a web forum. He had the technical skills, and I was going to handle the day-to-day operations of the site. The first thing that we needed was a name. I spent about a month playing with vowels and consonants trying to find a word that didn’t exist in the dictionary, would work as an adjective, a noun and a verb and could be registered as a .com. After many, many iterations, I landed on Vorkt. It fit all of the criteria.

The site was a success, following in the footsteps of another site that had imploded. At our peak we had about 1000 registered members globally. Unfortunately, about 100 of those members were more interested in sowing dissent and causing upheaval politically than they were in being appropriate members. The time to moderate and keep the site up became untenable. The joy was gone as it became a chore to even log onto the site. Over dinner one night, we discussed pulling the plug and killing it. We did so that night.

I still kept the registrations for Vorkt.com, Vorkt.org and Vorkt.biz and used them for my consulting business. When one day I found a folder of 10–15-year-old writings, I wondered what to do with them. I had started actively writing again and was looking for an outlet. I enlisted Rich’s expertise again, and resurrected Vorkt.com as a site for my writing.

About that time, for some unknown reason, I started reading the news again. At first, I was so appalled that I was thrown for a loop. How could these things be happening just under our noses? I frequented a half a dozen reputable sites for info, collaborated news to validate and sat back in shock. And then I realized that I had a platform from which to distribute the news in manageable pieces. I could do it in such a way as to try to maintain a human perspective to what was happening around us. That was late September. Here we are about a month later, and we have about 300 like minded people that are checking in on the site daily. All from word-of-mouth and emails.

To see those original essays and writings, go to the categories and look under “Random Verbiage” and “Short Musings”. There are other categories to explore also.

So, if you are reading this, thank you and welcome to the family of Vorkt. Tell your friends and please spread the word. Only by reaching that %3.5 threshold will we accomplish saving our Democracy.

-Scott Livingston 10.23.2025