word of the day

the word of the day is "iraqification."

in other news, learning about marxism can be really fun when the professor has a good sense of humor. i can't remember the context, but somehow it came out that marriage is a contract-enforced form of permanent prostitution. i happen to disagree with that view (so does the prof, actually... i think marxism was just complaining about how so many things are viewed as contracts in capitalism), but it was a very entertaining moment.

"Personal retirement accounts should be familiar to [members of Congress], because you already have something similar, called the Thrift Savings Plan, which lets [you] deposit a portion of [your] paychecks into any of five different broadly-based investment funds. It's time to extend the same security, and choice, and ownership to young Americans." --President George W. Bush