Fast Approaching the Political Singularity

I hate talking about politics.

Now that that's out of my system I can talk about politics...

But seriously, its not that its not interesting to me--and of course I care about what's going on in the world. I have opinions...about...political thingys...and economy stuff...and they are well thought out and intelligent...no, seriously! I just prefer not to talk about these things mostly out of embarrassment. As an independent I get worried that people who are ACTUALLY outspoken will put me on one category or the other based on what I say at the time. It's really nerve-wrecking!

This is why it is so odd to me that for the second post of the month of June, I will be bringing up a news article. I guess I just find it funny because its something I do constantly but when I heard that Representative Joe Barton apologized for apologizing to bp (if you don't get that link's joke then I'm sorry, there's no reason for you to be here :P), I nearly died.

I recognize that its ridiculous to apologize for saying you're sorry, but I tend to do it anyways--for example, when somebody yells at me, I say I'm sorry, then they yell at me for saying so and I do it again--a good way to get lost in a recursive apology function. I just never thought that this would be a problem for our leaders.

Here's what happened: the guy apologizes for being so mean to the representatives from bp to Washington, then gets criticized for doing so and has to apologize to the public for his apology...

My question is, can you apologize for something you don't feel sorry for? And if yes, then which apology is the true one? I don't know...

Here's the truth behind the Mayan Calendar...Maybe the world won't end after-all?


Stay Frosty,
-B

A Serious Look at Management

See, up until fairly recently I was fairly confident that people in the "real world" had sufficient problem solving abilities such that they could tackle the requirements of their job.

That was until fairly recently.

See, maybe its the fact that I play so many videogames that gives me the idea that I can solve puzzles pretty well. Hell I could save the princess, collect all the pieces to build a Super-Megalotron Antimatter device , then use it to open up a hole in the universe and stop inter-dimensional wildebeests from invading. And I could do it all and still have time to pick up some cheesey-poofs on the way home. That's what I do in my spare time.

It is completely beyond me that the people down at bp still have yet to find a solution to their oil problem. I just have no way of describing how crazy it is that still, after a month and a half--45 days--the oil is coming.

This is a fact that has left me numb to the "real world". It is unfair that our children inherit our complete lack of creative ability.

-B