Fruits of Labor

Celebrate your final weekend before school begins (consider this past week the preseason). I hope many, if not all, of you got a sense of what to expect in terms of personality and style. I'm laid back yet intense and passionate - a true hypocrite - which is perfect for studying American Government and Politics.

Let's see if I can remember what we covered today - I reminded everyone of the email and techhelp doc, mentioned that a true scholar will research the author of anything assigned, referred to the color wheel in a political sense (red, blue, and purple - although SW is pretty blue if you ask me), challenged everyone to dig deeper and not only answer a question - but analyze and define the words of a question. We briefly went over Elazar and Locke, hinting at things to come, and began to differentiate between Plato and TJ. I hope you also understood the power of controlling information and access to the decision-making entity of any organization...maybe Bush Jr. wasn't so bad if you realize who was feeding him what in terms of information. Rush and Hannity don't care about "The Grand Old Party" as much as they really care about viewers/listeners which affects advertising, which affects their salaries.

Basically - Power and Money drive everything. Wisdom is not only learned through formal education, but gained through experience(s). College is closer than you think. Your senior year is going to fly by faster than ever, and numerous other tidbits were discussed, refuted, presented, referred to, blah, blah, blah...

But what you probably remember most is that the Japanese have a better way of folding T-Shirts...