Where would I go?

I was filling out an application for a potential internship in NYC and I had this question posed to me:

If you could take THREE industry-related field trips, anywhere in the world, where would you go? What and/or whom would you visit and why?

I had to think about my answer for a couple of minutes... New York? Los Angeles? CNN is here in Atlanta? Where would I go? After a while of thinking, I made my decision:

Tokyo, Japan, Beijing, China, and Mumbai, India. The particular portion of the communications industry that I want to go into relies heavily on technology. Those three places I feel are going to be the places with the next major equipment changes in the field. I would visit the Research and Development divisions of the leading audio/visual manufacturing companies to learn about what is coming up next and how I can implement it in the future.

The Red Cross Called

I got this email today....

from: ((my dad))
to: ((me))
date: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM
subject: Red Cross called

Mary at Red Cross said it was time for you to donate again and that they are in desperate need.

My response:

Of course they are.... the major stock market players are all having heart attacks....and their ulcers are causing internal bleeding....

Blue Tooth Jerks finally LOOSE

So, I just read this on CNN.com: http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/09/18/cellphone.sperm/index.html?iref=topnews and basically, a clinic in Cleveland, Ohio has research that shows that the quality of sperm goes down when phones are used in the talk mode and are 2.5cm or less away from the testes.

What that means, (if the research is true) is that all of those obnoxious bluetooth headset talking people....the ones who I cannot determine if they're on the phone or talking to me..... could be decreasing the quality of their sperm (the men anyways) by keeping their phone in their pockets whilst talking on their headset.

If this is all true, then I want to formally change my opinion on people who use those silly things... keep using them...they're awesome....*cough-hopefully-they-wont-be-able-to-procreate-cough*

What's so wrong with monkeys?

I've been doing a lot of reading about evolution lately and I've learned a ton about it in many of my classes including Philosophy and Media, Society and Technology classes. The other day, I was talking to a family member of mine (on a distant 'redneck' branch) about evolution, and their response was simply: "I did not "evolve" from a d*mn monkey."

What is so wrong with monkeys? I mean really? The current science that I've seen recently says that we probably evolved from something similar to Apes or Orangutans. I took Sandi to Zoo Atlanta two weekends ago, and to be honest, they seemed pretty dang awesome to me. They could communicate, and knew what they could and could not eat. They took care of their young, and different groups weren't attacking each other over oil for their over-priced, over-sized and over-everything SUVS.... way more than I can say for us humans....

Another thing, why do my family members have to be so intolerant. I'm not gay, but I support gay marriage. GLBT relationships to me are no different than heterosexual relationships. Why then do some people always have to point out when someone is "playing for the other team"? GLBT people are not diseased or anything, and they're usually pretty cool. Why do you have to point them out as if I should cross the street to not be near them... I guess some people just don't understand that true love transcends all... age, race, religion, social status, GENDER....

Lewinski wasn’t the only person who Clinton screwed

If you are a college student with a political science major, he may have screwed you, too

The media had a field day with their coverage of the Monica Lewinski sexual relationship with former President Bill Clinton. Anyone of college age should know the 42nd president’s relations with his intern. What happened behind closed doors may never fully be known, but the one thing that should be known is what former President Clinton and many other politicians are doing to college students across the nation. They’re making the already-tough-to-break-into politics job market even harder to get into for college graduates.

I would bet money on deals that happened between Lewinski and certain political parties so that she will have no financial worries in the future. What I’m worried about is the students who are looking for internships in the political arena to get some “real-world-experience” before they graduate. These students are only trying to boost their resumes in hopes of getting at minimum a decent job. Unfortunately, who is going to hire a White House intern from when Clinton was president. What potential employer isn’t going to think “well, I wonder if this one had ‘relations’ with the president, too” when he or she sees that on someone’s resume?

To the media, Clinton’s affair was just personal. Many left-wing media outlets followed up every story about Monica with one about how well the economy was doing because of the president. Because it was thought to be only personal, it was cast aside in the judgment of many people because it just didn’t affect many people.

In some dark corner of my heart, I feel genuinely bad for Lewinski for going through that. I feel worse for any other intern or page whom went through similar situations. Up until this point, who has even thought about all of the other interns who are back at square-one all because they were trying to get ahead. As it turns out, these “personal affairs” may actually be hurting college graduates.

Most of the people who were interns during the last presidency have already made it through the system and are now either successful despite set-backs or flipping burgers at the local fast food joint. The problem now is the current ring of politicians who just cannot keep their hands to themselves.

In 2006, former senator Mark Foley resigned from congress after being caught sending explicit text messages to former pages. In 2001 “congressman” Gary Condit was found to have had an affair with intern Chandra Levy. This illustrates just two of the more well-known affairs. If one wanted to see the full impact, one would have to include nearly every politician who has had a sexual affair with anyone. What employer would take a job candidate seriously if they knew the candidate had worked under Eliot Spitzer as an intern?