bitterdiva

Odds and ends

Regardless of the community groups within the system, I find LiveJournal accounts to be severely unimaginative. Some people pay for them, some don’t. Sure you can create a unique username for yourself, but wouldn’t you rather have your own bloody domain to go to like going home to your house instead of your tenement? The masses all comment on each other’s journal not hiding in the anonymity that LJ forces upon those visiting from the outside community. I just think that having a site of your own enables you to be free of the bondage that LJ places on you.

This past two weekends have been of the excellent nature, even if I am disregarding my class work. We visited the local pub, Mahar’s – I even started a tour. I am not one for beer ever since the infamous summer of ’97 but I have to say having the ability to try over 200 beers from around the world is an exciting adventure. Plus it’s gearing up my taste buds and liver for my vacation in Ireland, which is only 30 days away. I finally got to check out a movie at the Madison Theatre, it was a relatively nice place. I can’t complain, I got a Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets bucket of popcorn. If it’s one thing I’ve realized over the last two weekends is that getting out of the house on nice spring days with your friends makes life more memorable.

Onto NY news:

There’s a program in NY called Wheels for Work that provides families and individuals on public assistance a vehicle in order for them to reach a better standard of living through obtaining and maintaining a job. This is yet another example how the government takes care of two types of people, the rich and the poor. As always, there are those who couldn’t qualify for such a program and lack the accessibility to a better job because they are downtrodden by the exorbitant amount of money leaving their accounts each month in order to repay for the high quality of education they received. That’s just one example. I’m partial to recent college students because they are in the worst case these years with the shitty job market and the increasing amount of college tuition paid for by private loans.

Another issue brought to the forefront of NY legislation is a bill that enables gun companies not to be sued by people claiming liability of their product. They cite that victims of shootings sue the manufacturer simply because they made the weapon that was used in the crime. Manufacturers are immune from their product’s misuse. Well, what about tobacco organizations and fast food companies that just sell a product and are sued because the buyer misuses it? Perhaps it's just the gun-toting NRA carrying members of the Republican Party that see it unfair for gun manufacturers but not for tobacco and fast food. Keeping with the ATF theme, what about alcohol manufacturers, are they ever sued because of a crime committed by a drunkard? I've never heard of one, perhaps they're next on the American Suing Agenda.

02:50 PM

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