I feel like I should either rant or cheer about the health care bill, but really I feel...not neutral, because I've sure got opinions. Just neither angry nor exuberant. The ridiculous claims floating around from people who obviously have no idea what the bill entails are driving me a little mad, but the bill itself is basically a barrel of pork. ( Read more... )

I am so tired of people throwing around very significant, very bad words over light matters. It's there every single day in politics, usually related to the Holocaust--conservatives are Nazis, Obama is the leader of all Nazi, abortion is a massive Holocaust. On Israeli websites it's even worse; if you want students in Gaza to be allowed higher ( Read more... )

 ( I have opinions. You probably shouldn't read them. )

Haiti’s history has always been one that made me sad, and I strongly hope (though doubt) that some of the aid being poured in goes to education instead of keeping the citizens alive and leaving them to live in a wreck.

I’m supposed to be studying right now, but I’m tired and dizzy and still in pain from going to the doctor on Friday (well, a doctor ( Read more... )

Fortune cookies and I are not friends. Aside from the whole "cultural bastardization packaged for western audiences" gripe, they just barely qualify as edible to my admittedly picky-beyond-belief tastes. My brother, on the other hand, eats anything with carbs. And since he eats about three times as much as I do (it's a family joke that he eats more ( Read more... )