I Wish I Had a Quirky Title

I'm not familiar with any rock n' roll songs alluding to being back in school. Sorry.

I think I'm going to have a lot more trouble coming up with stuff to rant about here. Or, at least, I'm going to start having to be more creative about it. Scottsdale is so full of my pet peeves -- undoubtedly because I lived there long enough to realize they were pet peeves. I doubt Flagstaff is without its faults, but I haven't been here long enough to notice too many of them, yet.

The bookstore, though. I got off easy and didn't have to spend too much on books. I do know two people that spent over six hundred, however, for one semester's worth of books. What a scam. I know that knowledge is priceless, but while that means it's infinitely valuable, shouldn't it also mean it doesn't have such a high price? There's something seriously wrong when there's money to give people that buy H2s or Escalades tax breaks, and there's not enough money to make a good education fully accessable to everyone. I'm not whining on my behalf, here -- I can get through school just fine, but there are a lot of people who can't. Clearly, the people that get the tax cuts on the Escalade got through school all right. I can't understand why they wouldn't be compelled to make that possible for everyone, especially since they love those stupid cars so much. Seems like they'd want everyone to have one. Do they think they're that much better than the people they neglect? They must.

Maybe I should cut them some slack. They may just not know. Thanks to American media (*cough* Fox is obviously the most heinous culprit *cough*), the poor are to be feared, not helped, if you are unfortunate enough to cross their paths at all. They live in suburbia, too, which isn't exactly a beacon for the indigent. It's a good way to get arrested for making people feel uncomfortable about all of their luxuries.

Which is why I think we should get better at funding education. The Republican National Convention is going on right now; I'm sure that's an issue they'll address. I mean, they've always been known to help the poor, keep capitalism in check with morals and cautious scrutiny regarding social justice, pay attention to people that are unlikely or legally barred from voting (kids, young people, poor people, and "aliens"), and grant the same voice to the little guy that they do to commerce and industry.

Wait a minute. I think they must try to systematically screw over everyone but themselves. Gotta kill to live, eh? Savages.

John McCain was endorsing Bush at the Convention. It made me sad. He's way too cool for that, and I never expected he'd be the sort to just let something like that horribly spiteful, dishonest, vicious campaigning Bush's lackies employed against him (and now Kerry) slide.

Don't let the man get you down.