Comm Theory

I am so SO done with theory courses. I bet I't be really into this class if I was a sophomore or junior. But I'm done with ideas; I want to DO. All my other classes are going great; in polling, it looks like we're going to be polling South Carolina on democratic presidential candidates. In Capstone, we're planning "Conversations with Carole Simpson", where we invite brilliant people to have discussions with famed journalist Carole Simpson, who is co-teaching our course. And ASL is always great. With this class, I know I'll do fine in it, I'm just *done* with theory classes. Not to mention that I'm not learning anything new here. It's all old news. I read todays reading in another course from last year. Blllar..... Life Lesson #22345: You cannot escape crap classes.

Anyways...

I heard about a really cool bill on C-SPAN 2 the other day. It was by a Senator from Alabama (I forget which) and he was talking about how Americans aren't saving enough. He wants to give every newborn an account with $1000 in it that they can't access until they're 65. Once the baby starts to work (that's the next issue we need to work on... damn lazy babies), the employer puts 1-3% of the baby's salary into that fund, plus, the baby can put in money periodically... by the time the baby's 65, they have around $500,000. I'm wondering if I can get in on that...

Hey, I wrote about a political issue in a blog! I'm a political blogger! I wonder if I can get a spot at the Libby trial...