Entries from May 2008

May 13, 2008

Business of Politics: Boy Meets World

In an elevator with my mom, at her work, her co-worker asks, “So David, what are going to do in DC?” Half jokingly I reply, “save the world, of course.” I came to DC with a very idealistic goal, but open-minded search to how to save the world. I had suspension it maybe in politics.
It’s [...]

May 8, 2008

Scapegoat

What is it about the human that we must scapegoat? There is a certain amount of scapegoating that goes on in this society that make you wonder: is it part of human nature? 
We’ve picked on the Native Americans, then Blacks, then Chinese, then Polish, then Irish, then Italians, then Jews, then Japanese, then Vietnamese, Hispanics, [...]