MODERN IFIGENIA

I have been watching the news recently, and I have to tell you that the more I read; the more confused I become. Over the last year or so we have seen conservatives bemoan the fact that the Obama administration has made efforts to ensure that health insurance coverage is available to all Americans. Those efforts resulted in the health care bill which created a mandate. Conservatives complained that government was getting too big, getting itself involved into areas that it shouldn't and that we were now becoming a Socialist state by forcing everyone to buy health care coverage. Given the emphasis on the "freedom from" aspect of liberty, I thought that on any given issue, conservatives would be embracing that analysis on a myriad of political issues of the day. But was I wrong. In a surprising turnaround, the Governor of Arizona signed into law a new bill that would require everyone to "carry papers". At any given point, law enforcement could stop you, ask you for...

How or where do I start? Well, more than a year ago I set up this space with the idea that I would blog my little heart out, but here I am now just barely starting off. You should know that I have no idea what I am doing and that I am finally doing this because, well, I don't know that either. I am a professional in my early 30's living in Central, PA. It is finally dawning on me that the job I am doing now is probably the job I will be doing for the rest of my life...great for "stability", but terrible for having something to look forward to. Don't get me wrong, I love my job, I help people all the time and my co-workers are wonderful, but it's almost like a courtship, I wish my profession would "court me" a little more, that it ought to worry that one day I wouldn't be here anymore and therefore should be nicer and more spontaneous with me. Does that sound odd? Probably, but that is how I feel...maybe it's a professional 7 year itch thing...