Yesterday afternoon, aside from forgetting to blog - again, I took advantage of the U being totally awesome and went to a talk by Dr. Greg Olsen. Maybe you remember Greg Olsen: he's the American businessman who went to space for 10 days and lived on the International Space Station. He's also a crazy successful entrepreneur/scientist, but let's face it, going to space is cooler than buying low and selling high.
Now it is Friday. No classes means a much busier day than usual, with a case meeting and MBA hoops and a couple of career calls of growing urgency. Not that things are really urgent per se, but rather that I urgently want to know what the heck is taking so long.
Finally today, my thoughts on politics. Not that my thoughts are really about politics. I speculate that this is due to my supreme disenfranchisement with the government right now. As Amy Poehler pointed out, Iraq brought regime change to the US in November. But now our apparently-autocratic President has ignored this message and commanded a troop surge. Explain to me again why he gets the final say? I dislike that the executive branch is so not representative of the will of the people. We have a bicameral legislature which votes according to what rich people and major corporations want (which is a start) but the White House seems to just decree things pell-mell without recourse. How is that different than having a dictator? President Bush isn't overly ruthless or oppressive (to most of us, at least) but if he only accepts the advice of his inner circle and makes anti-American decisions without the fear of retribution, I don't see how he is a democratic leader.
Friday, January 12, 2007