Two weeks until I move out of the dorm. Sadness. . .

Which political party is right?

I stumbled upon this website that gave very satirical answers to political questions. I thought this was pretty funny. This is what it said in response to this question:

Which political party is right?

None of them. None that I've ever heard of, anyway, in the U.S. or out of it. There isn't a single political party, including the Libertarian Party, that knows what it's doing or whose party platform wouldn't destroy the country if actually carried out. The most you can hope to accomplish by switching your vote is to tilt the balance in the right direction.

At present, the United States has two major problems. The first is that the country is growing over-bureaucratized; the law, the administrative structure, is strangling what it attempts to regulate. The second is that the Republican and Democratic parties, with no real competition, are starting to form an aristocracy distinct from the people. At present the people still hold the balance of power between the two parties, so they compete for power by trying to please the people. But there is no way either party will enact term limits, for example. Most modern countries face at least one of these problems.

When voting in the United States, follow this algorithm: Vote Libertarian when available; otherwise, vote for the strongest third party available (usually Reform, unless they have a really evil candidate); then vote for any candidate who isn't a lawyer; then vote Republican (at present, they're slightly better).

Three things you should know:

1. The (top-billed) Libertarians are wrong, just like everyone else, but they are wrong in the right direction to correct several major problems. When the country becomes too deregulated, I'll let you know.
2. Vote for any Independent or third-party candidate, even a Communist, for any position except President or Governor. Any damage inflicted by one loony legislator is less important than moderating the excess of power accumulated by the present two-party structure.
3. Voting for said Communist does not imply your approval of, say, any national debt accumulated by said Communist. The only thing that makes you morally liable for the national debt is if you yourself would have chosen to spend the money. So get out there and choose the lesser of two evils.

lala la la, lala la la Elmo's World

Sequiota Park pt. 2

Just a ditch.
The trail.
Trees and the trail.
Someone lost a sock.

Sequiota Park

Today, Devin and I went to Sequiota Park to take pictures. I took Charles' digital camera because I was nearly out of film. I pretty much just took random pictures but here are some of my favorites.

I really don't understand what this says.
Random view of the park

Okay!?! There are no fish, just to let you know.

Random people playing frisbee.

Again.

And again.

This goose cracked me up. It just got attacked by another goose in the water. The other goose latched onto its back feathers. So this one started to fly off and slammed the other goose into the little wall at the bottom. It was amazing.

GOOSE!!!

Thanks for the advice.

This guy had these dogs, I thought they were really pretty.

This is a tree, in case you didn't know.

My Schedule

So, it is time to schedule classes for the summer and fall. Here are my schedules, so far:

Summer
Research Methods in Social Science
Justice and Punishment

Fall
Fundamentals of Cell Biology MWF 9-9:50
Lab T 1:30-4:30
General Chemistry I MWF 8-8:50
Lab R 12-3
Global Awareness T 5:20-8
Elementary Arabic I MWF 1-1:50
Human Sexuality R 5:20-8

Which, by my calculation, gives me exactly 12 hrs. between when my last class ends and my first class starts. Which basically means I'll be living in the science building. Those classes add up to 6 hrs. over the summer and 17 in the fall. I think this is my final schedule but it has changed so many times already, who knows if it will change again. I meet with Dr. Petrich, the Pre-Med advisor, tomorrow. After that it may change again. I love scheduling time (and that's not sarcasm, I really do). So I guess my life isn't really boring, but it would seem so to onlookers. Time for bed, Good night.

My life is boring. Umm-hmm.