This thing has turned too much into a blog!

Yesterday in my public speaking class we were talking about persuasive speeches.  About three or four times, the instructor (who I happen to like in general) mentioned in an off-handed way "starving children in Africa," almost as a joke ( Read more... )

This is Principles of Economics, the basic intro version to economics.  It's in a lecture hall of about 100 and it covers kind of a lot.  I like it because attendance is optional and there are no assignments, only mid-terms and finals.  But I generally go to class ( Read more... )

Firstly, he's so charismatic and he's the first president who'll look good shirtless that we've had in a long time.

But other than that,
When it comes to the issues, I tend to agree more with the far left.  I agree most with candidates like Dennis Kucinich and John Edwards the most.  But I think that the biggest misconception that people have is that ( Read more... )

shut the fuck up ego

I read CNN politics news every day.  I know that CNN isn't the most respectable quality news source by any means, but I think it's a pretty good measure of mainstream America.  Agree with it or not, that's an important viewpoint to get to know ( Read more... )

if my understanding of modern conservative ideology is right, the lower the taxes, the higher the growth, the highrt the growth, the better the economy, everyone's better off with low taxes etc ( Read more... )

For a while, I was ok with how the Virginia Tech tragedy was dealt with by the rest of us. No one stared inquiries and independent reviews and government probes and new legislation. People just published stories about the victims and the university decided to change the way it deals with people like Cho. Sensible reaction, right ( Read more... )

Nick and Sofiya are coming to town this week, maybe staying with me... I'm excited to have some human contact. :)

I wish that this game had had an additional 9 months to a year for development:

I wish that

* The game were about three times as large and took about twice as long to play.
* I wish the storyline were more star wars like, and less corny
* I wish the game were far less buggy

Umm.

I think that's it actually.