"Here Comes Success" by Iggy Pop

I can't wait for summer. Geez. This has been a long semester. It's been strange. It was all inevitable, though, I guess. Cosmic fucking music, right, A. Casey?

But soon enough, I'll be at home for the summer. Time to make some jack, refill the coffers for my senior year. It should be a decent summer. I won't make the same mistake I made last year and go into summer with high expectations. This summer, all I want it to get a job I can tolerate for a few months, have fun at every opportunity I find, and, as always, keep it real.

On to the issues...

...on fuel
Damn, gas is expensive. Barrels of crude broke $75 the other day. What the fuck is going on? Someone who knows about oil production, corporate politics and/or greed, explain this before I start chokin' motha fuckas. $2.75 a gallon is ridiculous. Remember the prices you're paying for gas this summer when midterm elections come up in November. Remember who was giving big oil tax breaks and vote accordingly. Oil is going to be the issue this fall. Which is sad because we still have a pair of wars going on and kids getting sent home in flag-draped coffins everyday, coffins which the press is banned from showing, but that's yet another issue...

...on the Duke Lacrosse scandal
I just want justice. That means if the players are guilty, send them to prison. If they are innocent, release them and let thm sue the D.A., which I'm sure their parents will do considering the background the players come from. This entire case is a huge soap opera. My favorite sub plots:

• Rev. Jesse Jackson offers to pay for the victim's college education. When ask if he would make good on the offer even if her charges are proven false, he said he would. Wow. Does he just not realize that if she is found to be lying and he still pays her college bill, it will only make other girls think to themselves, 'Hey, if I say this happened, even if it didn't, I'll get paid.' Making the public even less likely to trust victims of rape.
• The D.A.'s up-coming re-election. This case is all over the place right now and along with it Mike Nifong's name. Pursuing this case is good publicity for him. Whether he's basing his indictments on his actual feelings about the case or about keeping this in the news is open for discussion after no DNA evidence was found from the victim.

Although I am a lacrosse player (well, kinda), I'm not taking sides on this issue. I'm not going to stand behind some guys and later find out they are guilty of something so heinous. I will also not stand behind the victim and later find out she was lying. I'll let the due process of law take its course and await the outcome, like we should all do if our nation still stands on its founding principles. Okay, now everyone knows where I stand on that.

Well, shit. I'm gonna go enjoy this beautiful day. Y'all go do the same.

The Jobey Poll
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