Why?

Why is it many of the same people who are the loudest in proclaiming the USA the Greatest and Strongest Country EVAR are also often the same people loudly proclaiming OHNOES! IMMIGRANTS ARE GOING TO DESTROY OUR CULTURE!

Dude. If we're a strong country and culture, we shouldn't have to worry about immigrants who want to come here destroying our culture. So which is it? Is our culture Great, or is it going to be wrecked by immigrants? Or is our greatness a really shallow and fragile and non-confident kind? 'Cause that's not really Great.

I never fail to be amazed by people's abilities to believe two contradictory things at the same time. Myself included.

The Camera Eye

One of the things I've noticed since I got my digicam is I'll occasionally stop and look at something ordinary and wonder if it'd make a good picture. Not that I have my camera with me most of the time, it's just a bit of a new way of looking at things. Which is really one of the main benefits of learning new stuff. It makes you look at things in different lights and can even teach you whole new ways of thinking. And more ways of looking at things means there's more things you'll see. No picture's complete from a single vantage point. Well, the picture may be, but not whatever the pic was of.

And that's one of the reasons I like learning new stuff.