They passed the auto bailout! I guess I don’t understand why they feel like they just can’t leave things alone that they don’t have any business putting their noses in. I know they passed it to save all of the jobs associated with the auto industry, but at the same time they really just need to allow capitalism to function without interference. That is one of the principle building blocks of this country and they continually feel the need to undermine it…
On my seeming never-ending quest to inundate myself with as many blogs as possible, I have created another one. The blog is called Despotic Democracy. This one I will be doing with a good friend of mine about politics and the US Government. Some of what I post on there may be redundant with what I post here, but there will be other content that doesn’t show up here; particularly that which my friend writes. Here is a bit about the blog from my initial post:
I suppose I will write a short introduction to our new blog, Despotic Democracy. The idea behind this blog is to express our opinions about the way the American government is handling domestic and international affairs such as the current economic crisis.
I will also say something about myself. My name is Alex and I am a university student who has lived abroad twice in my life and have seen things from a different perspective. Generally I tend to be very conservative in my political views and I fully support the Libertarian Party and its views on how the government should function. I am generally highly critical of the government and its responses to many of the situations we have faced in the past few years and in the present. This blog will be a mechanism through which I express my opinions of the government’s actions and support them with blatant facts that they somehow have missed.
Again, the blog is called Despotic Democracy and should be quite an interesting ride.
Today I gave a presentation on the Rise of Democracy in England. I was to present the research I’ve done all semester long accumulated into a research paper. The presentation was to be less than 10 minutes because between two class periods of 75 minutes each, 7 people had to present. Well, most of the presentations were under 10 minutes, but what took most of the time was getting the equipment setup to do what the presenters wanted. The problem wasn’t that the equipment (a computer hooked up to a projector) was incapable, it was that the students were incompetent. Most of the students presenting were unable to even open their PowerPoint presentations on the computer to which the projector was connected! These are people my age! All of them are in the 18-24 age range. They’ve grown up with computers!
While I don’t expect that everyone know how to operate a computer with grace and sophistication, I do expect that people my age should at least know how to open a file! And maybe, just maybe — this might be pushing it a bit — even be able to go into slideshow mode in PowerPoint. I know that it might be kind of difficult for some people, but frankly, I’ve been able to do it since I was about 8 when PowerPoint itself wasn’t very mature yet. I could also open a file by then! I don’t know how these people made it through high school — or even middle school. I firmly recall having to do many PowerPoint presentations during my years in middle school and high school. Come to think of it, I remember one I did in elementary school as well! (Although it was in our computer class…)
Today’s class was pushed to almost 3 hours (from the original 75 minutes) and most of it was spent trying to explain to the technologically handicapped presenting how to get their PowerPoint presentations open and in presentation mode. I might be a bit bitter. It was quite frustrating.
