After I finished creating my first blog on this site dedicated to comic strips, I decided to procrastinate some more and create a new blog just in case I felt a need to talk about observations in my life not revolving around the funnies. Who knows, maybe I'll have some big revelation about politics or sports or something that I'll feel a need to share with the world. Maybe someone somewhere might actually be interested in reading what I write. And maybe the next Ben & Jerry's hit ice cream flavor will be a ketchup and hamburger concoction called Where's The Beef.

In case I say something really stupid or offensive and you are wondering: "Who the fuck does this guy think he is?" I figure I should give a little background information. I'm a senior college student at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, WA. I'm majoring in math, but I think that was a mistake. My real passion seems to be American politics and sociology. Technically I could fix the situation and switch majors, but I still really love math (just not the high end abstract stuff). Plus math majors are statistically better off after graduation. So while I'm living my average life for the prospect of making a couple thousand dollars a year more, I can't help but think of a Calvin and Hobbes strip in which Hobbes laments: "I don't know what's scarier, that every man has his price, or that the price is always so low." (Oh, I guess should warn you readers to get used to comic strip quotations. They'll generally be relevant but they'll be numerous.)

According to OK Cupid's politics test, I'm a Democrat, though I'm reluctant to call myself one today. Socially I feel like I'm much more liberal than most democratic politicians who are too wishy washy. In my opinion we need more politicians standing up and saying: "Look, the evidence is clear. Homosexuality is not a choice for most people and marrying them certainly isn't going to threaten anyone else's marriage." If anything of this sort arises before the Supreme Court, I'm sure this blog will be all over it.

Financially, I also lean left. For example, I believe that taxes are too low and should be raised - especially for the rich. Sure I care about the economy and want businesses to thrive and develop new products and invest and all that jazz. But we need to have priorities and a wealthy country's priority should not be to get even more wealthy but to invest that wealth in fixing America's problems. Problems like the income gap for racial minorities or even more simply decreasing the income gap for all Americans no matter your race should be a top priority. Unlike what many people today believe, there does not exist an equal opportunity for all Americans to succeed; success today is bought by one's parents at a very early age. Almost all exceptions to this rule are brought about by social programs that Democrats support and Republicans oppose.

Other topics that might appear in this blog in the coming years are the need for more than two political parties, gun-control, public smoking, drug legalization or decriminalization, and almost anything else. I'm not real big on environmental issues but I might say something about global warming if it comes up. Oh yeah, and the Iraq war if I feel like it. Mostly I'll just be posting funny stories (probably most of them not even political in nature) or the most poignant moments from my favorite TV shows, South Park and Daily Show. I don't want this place to get too serious unless there's something big enough to get serious about. Above all else, I just like to laugh at stupid stuff. Enjoy.