Drinking chocolate milk makes me feel like a kid again. :)
Friday, March 26, 2004
Thursday, March 25, 2004
Ref: Ray's blog, 3/25/04 Haloscan wants me to shut up, but I found a way...:P
You raise a lot of good issues and make a lot of good points, and for the majority of your thread, I would have to agree with most of what you said. But let me ask you this: which came first, a crackdown by the authoritarian figures, or the seizure by young adults to live freely and do as they please?
During the student govt. elections at IU, I came across a ticket whose platform (from a flyer) read "Hoosier Party: more beer, more partying, more fun." Now, I'm all for having a good time at college and being able to look back on my college years and be satisfied with what I did and how I did it. But please, are you kidding me? Not even I, one who considers herself quite liberal in personal freedoms, would want to be represented by a ticket of students who run on a rickety platform slippery with alcohol. I apologize, I sort of went off on a tangent there, but my point is is that we don't live in a society that is or can be ruled solely by our twentysomething boozed-out wants and desires. You said so yourself, "they'll probably spend their windfall on beer..." So whose supposed to be the responsible one in this ideal world of no rules and no authority? I elect you, Ray, because you seem one who would have no problem with indulging in every single "damn right" you possess. Damn the man, save the empire.<--I'll drink to that.
(Did I completely miss your point?)
You raise a lot of good issues and make a lot of good points, and for the majority of your thread, I would have to agree with most of what you said. But let me ask you this: which came first, a crackdown by the authoritarian figures, or the seizure by young adults to live freely and do as they please?
During the student govt. elections at IU, I came across a ticket whose platform (from a flyer) read "Hoosier Party: more beer, more partying, more fun." Now, I'm all for having a good time at college and being able to look back on my college years and be satisfied with what I did and how I did it. But please, are you kidding me? Not even I, one who considers herself quite liberal in personal freedoms, would want to be represented by a ticket of students who run on a rickety platform slippery with alcohol. I apologize, I sort of went off on a tangent there, but my point is is that we don't live in a society that is or can be ruled solely by our twentysomething boozed-out wants and desires. You said so yourself, "they'll probably spend their windfall on beer..." So whose supposed to be the responsible one in this ideal world of no rules and no authority? I elect you, Ray, because you seem one who would have no problem with indulging in every single "damn right" you possess. Damn the man, save the empire.<--I'll drink to that.
(Did I completely miss your point?)
Tuesday, March 23, 2004
A few thoughts...
-That video link on Ray's blog is outstandingly disturbing. Crazy politicians. Damn the man.
-Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with some people. All they do is piss me off time and time again, and I swear that one of these days, one of those people is going to give me a heart attack or a brain aneurysm and I'll be forced to die a bitter, unfulfilling death. Gaaa.
-Why are deviled eggs called that?
-It's sad when you see people you care about who deep down really believe no one cares about them. :{
-I got a rejection letter the other day in the mail for scholarships. I read it and had a good chuckle at the delicate, dodgy way the dean put down in words his presumable true sentiment of my application, which was probably along the lines of "you seem to suck at life and your credentials blow so we ain't gonna give you shit no matter how much you may need the financial assistance."
-I give up.
-That video link on Ray's blog is outstandingly disturbing. Crazy politicians. Damn the man.
-Sometimes I wonder why I even bother with some people. All they do is piss me off time and time again, and I swear that one of these days, one of those people is going to give me a heart attack or a brain aneurysm and I'll be forced to die a bitter, unfulfilling death. Gaaa.
-Why are deviled eggs called that?
-It's sad when you see people you care about who deep down really believe no one cares about them. :{
-I got a rejection letter the other day in the mail for scholarships. I read it and had a good chuckle at the delicate, dodgy way the dean put down in words his presumable true sentiment of my application, which was probably along the lines of "you seem to suck at life and your credentials blow so we ain't gonna give you shit no matter how much you may need the financial assistance."
-I give up.
