It's pretty sad when Tucker Carlson has to defend Clinton against Dan Abrams. He claims to be defending liberal candidates and yet he does more for the Republican attack machine than Tucker Carlson. Who gives a shit if a woman on Hillary's campaign worked for a subprime mortgage lender? It doesn't make her stance on subprime loans any less sincere.

I also love how Obama had to reassure everyone that he was indeed not Muslim. Would it be so horrible if he was? Has anyone come out and say "Hey, it's ok if Barack Hussein Obama is Muslim." No. Instead: "Oh my god he's Muslim?! He's a terrorist!" I mean, this says a lot about our tolerance as a people that we can't stand the idea that a presidential candidate would be anything but Christian. No wonder Bobby Jindal converted. We're so effing closed-minded as a people compared to other Western countries.

Politics is such a joke. Really, everything is a joke. I was going to write about something that pissed me off last week, but I don't remember anymore. Man, I sound emo. Oh! It was about how Gainesville drivers piss me off. Really, the South in general pisses me off. They insist on driving slowly when there are people behind them who can't pass them. How obnoxious.

I also don't understand people who are self-important about morality. I get that you have "morals", but how can you pass judgment on someone when you've never been in a position to have to make that decision? Indian people do this a lot. I feel like I can't be who I am around them because I know they'll pass judgment on decisions I've made and therefore I'm distancing myself from them. I recognize I used to be kind of like that, but I usually passed judgment based on the person's intelligence. I hate to say this, but I have no respect for stupid people.

As I sit here slaving away for my Hinduism in America class, I have to wonder....why the bloody hell am I doing this? I grew up a "devout" Hindu, but the more I study this religion the more I think religion in general is a joke, especially its academic study. I cannot allow my soul to be eaten by the jaws of academia, within which the etic approach is considered superior and religion and anthropology are divorced, not to mention that I'd have to work for people with ridiculously high expectations who are never impressed no matter how hard one tries. Academia may be well-disguised as a noble profession, but in the end you have to sell at least a chunk of your soul to get anywhere. I do know that the academic study of religion is a field that needs much overhaul before it becomes a field that is taken as seriously as history, for example. The field of South Asia studies, while it is growing, will not get any higher on the academic totem pole unless it sheds its bias against the emic approach, and especially its stigma against South Asians entering the field. I may be paranoid, but there's definitely something there, and it has definitely turned me off of studying it after undergrad. At least if I study history I'll have a better chance of finding a job and perhaps not be judged because of my skin color. Pz.