Weird...My stats page shows that someone has been reading this...a lot. Looks like someone read all the archives. Ha...strange. And I hope he or she wasn't too bored!
Thursday, August 14, 2003
Wednesday, August 13, 2003
This recall election is really getting me down. Well, okay...it's not getting me down, necessarily. But it is driving me a little bit batty. As a Californian, I am a bit embarrassed! It is a popular pastime to make fun of California and the wacky ways here...but giving his kind of ammunition to would-be jokesters...it's just too much!
On a serious note, I feel somewhat angry about the recall. I mean, I feel as though on some level my voting rights have been violated. After all, we just had an election last year. I cast my vote, which was part of the majority vote, with the understanding that I would have an opportunity to vote again in four years. Isn't that what elections are about? Vote for a candidate, vote again in four years...if you don't like him orher, you can vote for someone else next time.
Then along comes a right wing money man and he decides he doesn't like the Governor (and I am sure he had plenty of nudging from Karl Rove and the compnay he keeps) and so he spends millions of dollars to pay people to collect enough signatures to put a recall on the ballot. And here we are.
Sure, people hate Gray Davis. I am not exactly a big fan of his. And there is something to be said for the fact that they secured enough signatures to get the thing on the ballot. But, I guess there is a part of me that really believes that a lot of the "enthusiasm" for the Gray Davis recall is actually a transference of anger at our country's leadership in general. People are pretty angry with George Bush...the economy sucks...we live in a constant state of fear. But we have no mechanism, except for the next Presidential election (GO HOWARD DEAN!) for getitng rid of the current administration. The recall in California is a way for voters to express their overall discontent with political leadership and to feel like they are able to do something about it. As they say, all politics is local. And so the recall is taking national discontent and giving the voters a local outlet.
George Bush and his merry band of idiots has got to go.
On a serious note, I feel somewhat angry about the recall. I mean, I feel as though on some level my voting rights have been violated. After all, we just had an election last year. I cast my vote, which was part of the majority vote, with the understanding that I would have an opportunity to vote again in four years. Isn't that what elections are about? Vote for a candidate, vote again in four years...if you don't like him orher, you can vote for someone else next time.
Then along comes a right wing money man and he decides he doesn't like the Governor (and I am sure he had plenty of nudging from Karl Rove and the compnay he keeps) and so he spends millions of dollars to pay people to collect enough signatures to put a recall on the ballot. And here we are.
Sure, people hate Gray Davis. I am not exactly a big fan of his. And there is something to be said for the fact that they secured enough signatures to get the thing on the ballot. But, I guess there is a part of me that really believes that a lot of the "enthusiasm" for the Gray Davis recall is actually a transference of anger at our country's leadership in general. People are pretty angry with George Bush...the economy sucks...we live in a constant state of fear. But we have no mechanism, except for the next Presidential election (GO HOWARD DEAN!) for getitng rid of the current administration. The recall in California is a way for voters to express their overall discontent with political leadership and to feel like they are able to do something about it. As they say, all politics is local. And so the recall is taking national discontent and giving the voters a local outlet.
George Bush and his merry band of idiots has got to go.
Monday, August 11, 2003
Now I am thinking I don't even know if I should do business school. Is it really what I want? If finding the enthusiasm to study for the GMAT is this hard, how am I going to get through? Why do I want to go to graduate school? Is there some other graduate school program that would be more suited to my interests, passions and long-term goals?
How do you decide? I don't know if I feel it as strongly as I want to feel it. I know I want to go to school again. I know there is more I want to learn. But business school? Is that right for me? Why not journalism school?
Pondering...
How do you decide? I don't know if I feel it as strongly as I want to feel it. I know I want to go to school again. I know there is more I want to learn. But business school? Is that right for me? Why not journalism school?
Pondering...