Good Intentions

Apparently my Contracts and Torts readings for tomorrow are absurdly short. I haven’t looked yet. If you hadn’t gathered already, I’m a bad student. Oh so bad.

As you may or may not know, this is the last season of Boston Legal, which absolutely breaks my heart. Allen Shore is my hero. If I could, I would be just like him, except that lawyer can’t exist because he’s so ridiculous and incendiary that he would constantly be in contempt of court.

But I can dream. Maybe I can open and close like he does. Hm.

I’m not even going to look at the bailout bill and how it was voted down in the House, because when I do, I want to go hide in my closet and not come out until 2012.

These days I kinda feel socially retarded (Is that politically correct? I don’t even know. I feel socially inept. There). My section feels positively clique-ish. And I can’t help but recall my freshman year of college and how this is playing out just like that did. But then again, I met so many cool people after and during that first year.

Don’t get me wrong, I have met some cool people. I’m just not feeling any connection like I used to. I seriously miss my old groups in Austin. You know who you are.

On another note, USC lost to Oregon State and dropped from No. 1 to No. 9. Now, let’s think about this. Ohio State lost to USC when the latter was #1 and dropped to 14. USC is beaten by an unranked Oregon State and drops to 9. What the hell, rankings?

Well whatever, Texas is 5, and that’s all I care about. I hope they can hold onto it. Stupid Oklahoma.

Well, it seems the FBI is starting to investigate Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, and AIG for fraud. How wonderfully droll. When did personal responsibility become such a joke in this country? When did we allow businesspeople to be held to a lower standard of integrity and honesty from everyone else? And why did we give them slack on regulations? Where was the SEC during all of this?

Oh right, doing nothing:

Cox has been painted as something of a regulator missing in action — he’s still explaining why he wasn’t on particular conference calls during the Bear Stearns meltdown in March.

Oh, really? Man, it’s not like you’re the chairman of the SEC, so it’s no big deal that you couldn’t be in on those meetings. What matters is that you’re there now to prop up some of the fallout until someone else is appointed to your position after you resign in 2009. Hear me now, believe me later.

The Baby Boomer Generation is clearly corrupt, inept, and fraught with cronyism. It’s time these impotent people stepped aside and let my generation screw things up for awhile. Because hell, we can’t do any worse than these shmucks, these people who have borrowed again and again against the futures of our children and grandchildren; it’s really them that will be feeling the full fall-out of the past decade or so.

I’m glad that we had our eyes and ears open abroad to protect us from the foreign bogeyman, except for the fact that we let the homegrown domestic bogeymen–our politicians and businesspeople–get the best of us.

I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.

Edit: Oh, and this should prove once and for all that lassez faire economics does not work. People are basically evil assholes and will do anything to further themselves, even at the expense of others. And now that we’ve socialized the risk and privatized the reward, here, we can finally put that canard of completely free-market capitalism to rest. A basic guideline/discretionary group/overseer is necessary, because, get this, people are assholes, and that is not going to change, EVER.