Only 51 days left to get Dustin the BEST GIFT EVER!!!!

Halloween has come and gone and now begins the start of the Christmas shopping season. Only 51 days left people!!! But this Halloween was the first time since 9th grade that I went trick or treating. Going to the different embassies was probably the most fun I had when all I got was a few pieces of generic bubble gum. India and South Korea actually let us into their embassies. Looking at the exhibit in the South Korean embassy gave me new insight into their history and culture. Not to mention the plum candy was actually good to eat. The whole irony was my costume. Kim Jong Il finally invaded South Korean territory. The whole experience of walking down Massachusetts Ave with about 300 college students dressed as Kim Jong Il and standing next to a chicken was something that I probably never forget. But time to move on to something more pressing, insecurity.

Sometimes things work out so that when I'm writing a paper on CNN in college writing I can talk about it in World Politics. The media presents the stories that believe their viewers want to see. They are still a business after all. But they also like to tell stories that just compare statistics to make one threat look more severe than the other. That story I found in class about how motorcycle accidents killed more marines than combat in Iraq. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/30/marine.motorcycles/index.html) The story is more about motorcycle deaths than a threat to marines, but the way the title puts it, the story is made out to be more than it is. Though the story does talk about a more common threat, it still seems funny to be comparing death by combat to death by motorcycle crash. It was also the top story for a while on Friday. The media will sometimes not talk about the real threat but talk about what makes the people happy or more scared. The media’s influence on our feeling of security is something that should be looked into more before some crazy network starts scare tactics to make money.