Abbreviated Notes from Pondering while Wondering

I felt inspired to post today. It may be that I'm just avoiding an assignment that I must do for a training tomorrow, but nevertheless a post is a post. There a many issues in the past month that have crossed my mind as I have been working my summer job. This summer I am working for mosquito abatement, which entails driving around looking for mosquito larvae and killing it during the day, and driving backroads at 10 mph with the fogger on at night to kill fliers. All that driving, searching, and swamping gives me plenty of time to let my mind wonder. The topics I've been thinking of include:

• A documentary about all the weird summer jobs teachers have
• The definition of marriage 
• A theory I came up with four years ago explaining how an influx in popularity of far-right groups   could cause the Republican party to lose elections that it should easily bag...in Idaho......and that theory's pertinence to the situation on the national stage today
• Said theory's ominous raincloud over the Romney campaign
• The need for campaign finance reform--ugh
• The need for a paradigm shift in education reform--We just aren't providing a sufficient free, appropriate, public education any more. How is it that a college degree is the new high school diploma when the cost of secondary education only rises and students graduate with a lifetime's worth of debt? How is that the American dream? Speaking of which:
• The American Dream: Does it really exist? Can it only exist with a mountain of debt?
• Next year I really need to find a college research job or something
• The European financial crisis--how different are we and what are we doing to avoid it?
• The Affordable Care Act--again, what are we doing to avoid a government bankruptcy?
• The Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act--if the quick, sly fox is Chief Justice Roberts, is the lazy dog Clarence Thomas? And how can we get past this chalk party line on the bench? I mean, I learned in high school that there are two ways to read the constitution (liberal and conservative); is there any way past this?
• Baseball-I think the Giants and Nats will make a good NLCS and Rangers and Angels will make an even better ALCS.
• Entertainment-I wish GI Joe would have opened on its expected date
• More education reform-When will I have time to work on preparing for next year's classes? Why are teachers expected to improve without being paid to work towards improvement when they don't have to worry about teaching classes? What's the idea here? Does anyone have a plan for professional development?
• Recreation: Will I ever regularly run again? When will I make enough money to go golfing? To go camping for a week with my family?
• Basketball-Did Lebron finally make 'the jump'?
• Money-How will I pay for a doctorate?
• Money-How will I pay for another vehicle to hold more family?
• Money-How will I pay for hospital bills when we expand the family?
• Money-How will I pay to visit the family we love that live so far away?
• Money-How will I pay for whatever it takes to make my lawn turn green again?
• Oh yeah, working mosquito abatement over the summer will help
• Man I hope I find a better job next year

I someday I'll address these topics, but for the most part I spend what time I'm not at work, with my family and what time I'm not with my family or at work working on my master degree.