Lord of the Flies

I stopped reading State of Denial after about 50 more pages because I have no interest in reading about that right now. I’m too engrossed in the upcoming elections to be thinking about Bush’s mistakes (though it’s pretty clear reading this book that these guys had no plan going into this war at all).  I still don’t know who I’m going to vote for.  Maybe I really am an Indepedent despite how chic it is to be a democrat right now.  The biggest problem, in my opinion, with the past 7 or so years is that this White House had no real opposition.  It became a completely one-sided government and completely divided the country down the middle.  History might change how Bush and the Iraq war are viewed, as it did for other presidents, but in terms of unifying the country, these guys completely failed.  I don’t think a democratic president/congress would necessarily do anything different for the country with all of the republican-bashing.  When I just think about who would make the country better as a whole and take the media out of it, I can’t decide between McCain or Obama (as it still looks like a longshot Hillary will be involved).  Obama still seems a little too slick for me, and as a person I trust John McCain to not blatantly lie (as much).  This will come down to the debates and reading more about their policies.  Anyway, enough about all that.  I don’t know anything about politics, I’m just on my high horse after reading 1776 and John Adams.

But like I meant to say, I stopped reading the Bush book and picked up my sister’s copy of Lord of the Flies, which apparently a cat peed on a few years ago.  There are a whole mess of high school books that somehow us Plymouth North kids (or at least in my classes) never got a chance to read (Catcher in the Rye, The Scarlett Letter, Death of a Salesman, etc.).  Therefore this is my effort to read something classic, and unfortunately I don’t really like it so far.  I’m about 60 pages in and luckily it’s only 220 so I can breeze through it in a few days.  I guess it gets really violent later on, but I feel like just skimming it.

No gym this morning, I’ll do a bodyweight workout or go for a walk after work.