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On the job front and other things
Dec. 17th, 2004 02:24 amI've been bitching and whining about how much I hate my job for a loooooooooooong time now. I finally bitch slapped myself for being a complacent fucktard and am actively searching for another job. By actively I mean hitting the "apply now!" button at monster.com, but it's a start, right? Thanks to Sue and her excellent phrase providing (hugs Sue again) I pointed out in my cover letter that while I don't have the typical experience I do have it. So here's hoping.
And I'm getting all meh about law school. It isn't that I don't want to go -- I really do -- but I'm beginning to think it would be more about academic inquisitiveness and going into deferrement on my student loans than an actual career. I am absolutely *fascinated* by laws and their interpretations, how the Supreme Court can sit and decide cases based upon the Constitution when there's nothing directly said about the issue as in Roe v. Wade. There is nothing in the Constitution at all addressing abortion, yet for better or worse the justices decided it was unconstitutional to outlaw it. (Sooooo not looking for debate on the issue, just pointing out how amazing it is to me that a document so vague can hold our country together.)
Has anyone else seen Penn and Teller's show Bullshit! on Showtime? Joe found them online totally by accident and we've been laughing out asses off at all the episodes we've downloaded so far. It's about the debunking of bullshit in society. PETA, the obession with self-help and the quest for true love, bottled water (one company states on its label their source is a public water supply), psychics, feng shui, safety hysteria, the immenent coming of the apocolypse, hypnosis, super sensitive parents spending millions of dollars on things to make their babies smarter that just make their creators richer, etc. One episode in particular really caught my attention. It said the dangers of secondhand smoke was bullshit. Before everyone beats me do death with my own cigarettes, allow me to expound.
It definitely didn't say secondhand smoke was GOOD for you. It merely stated that the risk of contracting lung cancer from it had been severely overinflated by the anti-tobacco activists and the government. The EPA study that everyone points to when its time to pass anti-smoking legislation was actually thrown out in a federal court because it found the EPA handpicked its data to match the conclusion they wanted. Eat that, Bloomburg! Nyah! Like I said, it isn't good for you. It didn't bullshit the bullshit. But Penn pointed out that smokers have the right to smoke in public and that exposure to secondhand smoke does not mean certain cancer.
Anyway, if you're interested in the show in general, http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do
( Meme answers before Yanks' head explodes )
And I'm getting all meh about law school. It isn't that I don't want to go -- I really do -- but I'm beginning to think it would be more about academic inquisitiveness and going into deferrement on my student loans than an actual career. I am absolutely *fascinated* by laws and their interpretations, how the Supreme Court can sit and decide cases based upon the Constitution when there's nothing directly said about the issue as in Roe v. Wade. There is nothing in the Constitution at all addressing abortion, yet for better or worse the justices decided it was unconstitutional to outlaw it. (Sooooo not looking for debate on the issue, just pointing out how amazing it is to me that a document so vague can hold our country together.)
Has anyone else seen Penn and Teller's show Bullshit! on Showtime? Joe found them online totally by accident and we've been laughing out asses off at all the episodes we've downloaded so far. It's about the debunking of bullshit in society. PETA, the obession with self-help and the quest for true love, bottled water (one company states on its label their source is a public water supply), psychics, feng shui, safety hysteria, the immenent coming of the apocolypse, hypnosis, super sensitive parents spending millions of dollars on things to make their babies smarter that just make their creators richer, etc. One episode in particular really caught my attention. It said the dangers of secondhand smoke was bullshit. Before everyone beats me do death with my own cigarettes, allow me to expound.
It definitely didn't say secondhand smoke was GOOD for you. It merely stated that the risk of contracting lung cancer from it had been severely overinflated by the anti-tobacco activists and the government. The EPA study that everyone points to when its time to pass anti-smoking legislation was actually thrown out in a federal court because it found the EPA handpicked its data to match the conclusion they wanted. Eat that, Bloomburg! Nyah! Like I said, it isn't good for you. It didn't bullshit the bullshit. But Penn pointed out that smokers have the right to smoke in public and that exposure to secondhand smoke does not mean certain cancer.
Anyway, if you're interested in the show in general, http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do
( Meme answers before Yanks' head explodes )
