Archive - Mar 2010 - Blog entry

Today, President Obama will sign into a law an overhaul of student loans that will cut the role of banks in the entire student loan process, saving taxpayers over $68 billion in the next ten years, according to Retuers News.

Yay! Yes, that’s right: something positive.

Between a severe subway bombing in Moscow and Ricky Martin coming out of the closet, how does anyone keep track of what’s going on in the world?

Oh, yeah. We don’t.

Today, health care reform passed in the House of the Representatives at the expense of low-income women’s reproductive rights and a new debate on what constitutes Constitutionality.

Woot?

Vice President and former Delaware Senator Joe Biden visited Israel this week, promising them “absolute, total, unvarnished commitment to Israel’s security.”

Thus, Biden espoused the same iPod-on-replay rhetoric politicians have been unquestioningly utilizing for the past forty years.

I started this blog today because in exactly one month I will head off to Germany. I have to admit, this future (and expensive) endeavor still feels so surreal.