Closed minds make ignorant people...

It seems like common sense, but a lot of people are unaware how close-minded they actually are. It really pisses me off too. Anything that I talk shit about or bash something, I at least gave a honest effort to try out whatever that something is. I try my best not to be ignorant and have an open mind towards everything.

Plenty of you know what I'm talking about. I catch a lot of crap for playing Animal Crossing, a game where you live in a village of animals and fill your virtual house with furniture and clothes. Just about everyone I talk to ask me, "Why do you play that game? It's so stupid." As you might guess, they haven't played a second of it. Even if they have, it was five minutes when they were already looking for everything bad in the game because of preconceived notions. How do I know they're a bunch of ignorant assholes? The Sims. This game is the best selling PC game in history, and one can make plenty of comparisons from the The Sims and Animal Crossing.

Show me a gamer or any person that has played The Sims and enjoyed it, and won't at least give Animal Crossing a fair shot. Unfortunately, this is the case most of the time! Another point is the game, Guitar Hero. A lot of people, especially in America didn't give rhythm games one look until this game came out. While Guitar Hero has seemingly made the genre mainstream, most of these wannabe gamers won't buy another rhythm game.

I hate these people, you're probably one of them, but they say "ignorance is bliss," don't they?

SODA and DARE are shit...

At least in my school district they were. These two organizations are supposed to discourage and prevent high school age students from drinking alcohol and taking drugs. SODA and DARE fail miserably when it comes to both of these tasks. SODA(Students OK without drugs and alcohol) and DARE(Drug Abuse Resistance Education) are run by students and faculty. They organize special events for students to participate in as an active alternative to drinking or taking drugs. Events like barbecues and free movie screenings make up the bulk of the event calender.

While all this sounds great, the organizations themselves are poorly managed. I know that many students in these two groups openly drank and/or took drugs. SODA and DARE makes no effort to follow up on anyone in the groups. Even though students are required to sign a pledge that says they will not drink or take drugs, this document is merely a formality to most and is for all intents and purposes, meaningless.

Aside from a ignorant freshman year in high school when I didn't know of all the goings on within my school, I refused to join either organization on moral grounds. I don't know about anyone else, but I'm outraged that defiance and ignorance of this magnitude can go unnoticed and unchecked by the school's administration.

Further, as far as the "Resistance Education" as part of the DARE acronym, this is also a joke, seeing as how it is all but commonplace, nay, a rite of passage, for college students to engage in underage drinking. While I don't condemn people for this choice, I do however condemn them for being complete hypocrites.

Digressing further, while drinking may be fine, binge drinking and the act of drinking in order to get drunk are more detestable practices that further exemplify the complete inadequacy of the SODA and DARE institutions.

Animals in Iowa City...

Maybe it's just me, but I swear that animals here in Iowa City are more indifferent to human presence than anywhere else I've been. From birds to rabbits, they allow a person to come extraordinarily close to them. Anywhere else, the animals wouldn't allow someone to come within a ten foot radius before running/flying away. I wonder why the disposition of the wildlife here is so different from any other place.

So....

It seems I haven't found anything to put here and/or I've put those things that I would have put here in other forms and mediums. Meh... >_>