Dezember 2009

Mittwoch, 9. Januar 2008

staving to become informed

What should I type this time? I need to think of something to say, but I am undecided. I am quite excited about listenining to NPR on a daily basis. It has been great. Intelligent reporting...it is my place to get all of the news about the election and all the damage that is taking place in Kenya and Pakistan. It still bothers me to this day. I remember seeing Bhutto speak at MTSU years and years ago and thinking that she was a great speaker and now she is gone. But still, I look to the future and think of all the possiblilities. I mean think of it all. How your television and the computer will somehow become merged. Think of watching television shows and surfing the internet on one component. So much technology...it can be very (what is that word?...not demanding...OVERWHELMING)...
but I am looking forward to the Tennessee primaries taking place on February 05th. I have no idea for whom I will cast my vote. I think I need to take a careful look at the Democratic nominees. Clinton, Obama, Edwards, and all of the rest. I want to take a more role in the decision making efforts in the United States. I think that voting in the primaries is the first step.
I have noticed that I tend to make these long lists of things I want to do and then one day for no reason, I start making the neccesary steps to implement these lists. I started listening to NPR so that I can hear Talk of the Nation Science Friday. Then I began listening to other NPR programming. Now I spend most of the day listening to NPR. And listening to NPR is one step for me to become an informed citizen. Sure a lot of today's current news confuse me...free trade, the national budget, embryonic stem cell research...and I realize that I am not a complete informed citizen, but it is a step a day. one new step a day is all it takes. let us see where that will take me ten years from now.
-Eddie Vedder "Hard Sun"

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