Not much is new around here lately. I’ve been keeping busy with school and work as usual. I’ve been excited about the new NASCAR season starting and have watched every race so far, even though my favorite driving hasn’t been performing very well. I’m a little discouraged about all the 20 year olds winning races. I realize i’m approaching 20 myself, but come on it makes NASCAR look easy when someone just comes in from racing go karts and starts winning races. Aside from that, I have really mixed feelings about this war stuff. My statistics teacher expressed a pretty emotional stance to the class last evening, which i’ve taken into account while sorting out my own feelings. This is the first war i’ve had to feel anything about. The Gulf war was going on when I was under 10 years old, so I had less important things on my mind at that point. I almost feel uninformed about the whole thing, even though there’s so much information in the newspapers (which I read daily) and so much on TV. It’s all just so cloudy, I like to think I’m intelligent enough to read and comprehend, it’s just that there’s something that I just don’t understand. What are we truly going to war for? I hear Saddam is a bad person, and the people of Iraq have to deal with the fear of their government killing them everyday, which is something I can’t imagine. This might be a good reason, for the sake of the people of Iraq and the neighboring countries that Iraq threatens. But is our economy strong enough to make it through a war? I’ve been reading stories that Minnesota’s new governor wants to cut the budget immensely, especially with higher education. This doesn’t necessarily effect me since i’m not eligible for state or federal aid programs, but it effects my school, because I know a lot of the students do depend on it. And it effects education as a whole, not just my school all schools. I realize it’s selfish to say, “let’s handle our own problems at home first,” but at times I think this war is all just a way to lower the price of oil and to cover up a struggling economy. There are good excuses to go to war, but are they just excuses? I guess i’ll continue to read on as it all unfolds, and hopefully i’ll develop a stance on this whole thing.
