6,610 (last counted on October 19th, before heading up to Boston College from Baltimore)
Since then (in the car): 5,387 miles
Air Travel from BWI to Buffalo and back: 550 miles
Max speed according to GPS: 109 mph! (In Vermont)
Average moving speed according to GPS: 55.2 mph.
Moving time (since Oct 19th): 97 hours and 34 minutes
Total Miles this fall: 12,547 miles!!
Crazy!
Now my thoughts. (WARNING: these may get a little deep. So I apologize.)
Thoughts on Politics:
I tell people I'm a moderate because I find it hard to put myself in one of the other two categories. I think because I am educated and experienced, I am able to have diverse thoughts on domestic and international issues that do not necessarily fit into a blue or red state.
Joe Klein, author of the book "Politics Lost" I just listened to, said “to be moderate is to be homeless in 21st century American politics.”
Mr. Klein labeled both parties well...
About Republicans: “once the home of a prudent conservatism has gone foolishly radical, fiscally irresponsible at home, intemperate and bullying aboard, purveyors of an intrusive religiosity that is shockingly intolerant of science or reason.”
About Democrats: “Once a home of democracy’s gracious impulses has become a reactionary bastion. It’s signature issues of health care, education and welfare held hostage by teaching and social work bureaucracies that are utterly resistant to change, its spiritual vigor sapped by vehement secularism and an overdependence on the Judicial system, symbolize by the fanatic defense of abortion rights, its soggy internationalism spineless in the face of a dangerous world.”
Both parties swan towards their extremes. And that’s too bad. The above is a negative portrayal of both parties, sure, but if it an accurate depiction then for now I’m happy being a moderate.
This is what politics should really be like: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAXz6j4Yj9M
Thoughts on pop culture:
It puts a callus on your soul.
