Apple Sauce is Great for Cottonmouth

I recently completed the chapters in history on the progressive era and the problems facing the United States after the Great Depression. I for the life of me, cannot understand the monumental problems we have now and how they are so closely related to the same problems our nation faced during the progressive era and why none of these same solutions can be applied in our current situation. I don't think that big government is going to fix much, even though it is supposed to be the one check we have in the system that is supposed to protect us from huge corporations who will stop at nothing to make a profit. This doesn't matter if their decisions destroy lives, the environment or the economy itself. Republicans believe that the government has no right to interfere with business and commerce which in an ideal world would work, it just so happens that greed tends to come between business's and how they make their decisions. Unfortunately ethics has no variable when it comes to...

I have been at the library all afternoon, went to my Engineering Graphics class and just got done taking an online test that took me over an hour. My eyes feel dry as shit and I gotta be back up for class early tomorrow. Glad I don't have shit else to do.

So I have been hard at work, going back to Jiu Jitsu and working on getting my knee back in shape to get back to Judo practice by the next month or two. I have also drastically cut back how much I have been drinking and keeping up with schoolwork. I completely forgot how much I loved going to school, I hated it when I was younger but I have come to appreciate it much more than ever. I always thought it was useless and boring but have come to the realization that you don't really start to learn shit until you get into college. Everything they teach you prior to that is usually watered down and sometimes utterly wrong. I have really noticed since I am taking American history and American government classes that what you learned about in school concerning the development of our country are mostly romanticized versions of what actually happened. I'm also learning a lot about how economics and industry have such an enormous impact on society. How things changed after the Industrial ...