Political Pons? I hope not

I'm starting to get really sick of the propiganda being shoved down my throat in this election.  I think that the media knows that on average we all want to sound informed-- We just don't want to work hard to be informed. 

I have had many of my friends tring to promote propiganda as fact in the past few weeks.  When I hear something new I say things like, "wow I'll need to look that one up", and they are always confident and don't back pedal on the issue.  What I find more often than not is that the are accurately repeating the propiganda that is being feed to them, but they are never checking their facts or even checking to make sure that it passes a basic smell test.  They are listening to either extreme liberal or extreme conserrvative media and are, for some reason, assuming that the information is accurate because it fits into their arsonal so well. 

Unfortunaly, it is proving to be completely inaccurate most of the time.  These are smart people who end up trusting the media that favors their party, and end up looking quite sheepish because of it.  

You are more than a sheep.  You are the best educated nation in history.  Take your current beliefs and run them through the wringer!  Make sure that you are not just a pon being controlled by the media.  Question everything, assume that everything is a lie until you prove otherwise to yourself, and don't put your education to waste.  Help our nation be the best possible by working a little bit today to ensure a better future for our nation.

**Unrelated** Also: Marathon Training Update:(3.84 mi, 8:42/mi)

Nutrition Fact overkill?

Has anyone else ever noticed that bottled water has nutrition facts listed? It seems really funny to me.

Nutrition Facts:
Calories:0
Total Fat:0
Sodium:0
...etc..

I suppose in a world where they market cool-aid as a water replacement by naming it "vitamin water", maybe it is appropriate to list nutrition facts on things labeled "water". One way or another I thought it was thoroughly funny to see.

Another funny one was the ingredient label on a box of raisins that I ate the other day...

Ingredients:
Raisins

Also: Marathon Training Update: (3 mi, 27min)

Rock and Roll Marathon

How hard is it to train for a marathon? I have no idea, but I'll let you know.

I ran in a half marathon 2 years ago, and that was hard enough. I didn't have a ton of time to train for it, but I thought I had enough time. When it was all done, I had accomplished my goal, but felt pretty beat up. My knees were in pretty bad shape, and my ankle was pretty beat up.

A few weeks after the race, I had quietly decided that running might be too hard on my body, and I probably didn't have a future in it.

Now, two years later, I find myself pre-registered for the full marathon after a spontaneous urge to sign up. My plans this time around are to train more steadily and less aggressively. I wanted to start off very slowly to give my body a chance to build all the primary and supporting muscle to take some of the pressure off my joints. I'm hoping that this plan will leave me with less injury, and even more success.

I'll keep you posted on my training on this blog. Here is the first run.


The Race is Jan 18, 2009. If anyone wants to join me just let me know.