Advise Needed

I am still unsure what I want to do with my degree and graduation is coming up. So, I asked Career Services what my career options were as an English major. I was given a two page list which, believe it or not, included Financial Analyst, Traffic Director, and Artist among other absurd options. In discussing this with a friend at work, I realized that a BA in English is really not going to do that much for me. It's more like a starting point, but I wanted to be finished. I suppose I chose the wrong degree program for a person who only has time and money to get at Bachelors degree. It sure would have been nice if an advisor had actually advised me when I started my college career.

Countdown

According to backwardsbush.com, we only have 273 days left of the Bush presidency. I have a feeling that 1-20-09 is going to be a bigger party than New Years. I know I'm going to start planning my No More Bush bash now.

Economy in the Crapper

My father-in-law went to Sam's today just to stock up on paper goods. I took it as a kind of metaphor for the economy. His theory is that it will soon be so bad that toilet paper, Kleenex, and paper towels will be unaffordable so when no one else can afford to wipe, he'll have it made. It's comical but, at the same time, it's a possibility. With the price of necessary commodities rising every day, we should all be looking for ways to save. The Euro is up and the Dollar is down and it's beginning to look grim.

War, What is it Good For?

Since the Presidential election is getting enough attention, I would like to switch my focus this week. According to icasualties.org, the fatalities of US soldiers has now reached 4,018; not to mention our wounded and those killed and wounded from other countries. It seems as though the fighting will never end. Consider the words of Thomas Jefferson:

As to myself, I love peace, and I am anxious that we should give the world still another useful lesson, by showing to them other modes of punishing injuries than by war, which is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.

Has history taught us nothing?