ENG 1A..

Well, I'm not sure how formal or informal to be, whether to swear or not since I swear a lot. This isn't my first blog but it is my first for a class and for actual credit. Just as a quick recap for myself, so far my Foothill experience has been successful and I hope it stays that way. English has been interesting so far, I don’t know anyone in the class which is too bad but everyone seems intelligent at least. I’m a little annoyed when I was trying to make this blog since I run my own server at home and spend out the ass for the service on Comcast, but the mother-loving software wouldn’t install properly on it and so it is I have to use this free service. Unfortunately I may have missed a crucial class but I haven’t heard anything amazingly unknown to me about the novel in discussion which is good. I really don’t know what else to write for a first blog, lately I’ve been pretty occupied with current events. I’m defiantly not looking to be a political science phd (poly-sci, why try) but it is interesting to look at the geopolitical relationship between nations and peoples and in understanding how they have formed to rationalize why this backwards miserable miserly world is the way that it is. I’ve thought about America and its role especially—how could one not considering the new position this nation has placed itself in—and the bad rap the U.S. gets around. The U.S. consumes the most resource, pollutes the most, etc. but while the country does all of these things, the U.S. and it’s 13 trillion dollar GDP are essentially what drives the global market. Without American consumerism the world would have little hope for quality of life and opportunity to improve. It seems to me the issue is not consumerism but rather the way it is put in to effect, manufacturing and everything else has to become much more efficient and eco-friendly. Anyhow, that’s all for this experiment of a first blog.