De-stigmatize protecting the environment

Despite my political aspirations, I haven't always been a particularly politically conscious person. As such, I don't know when making the environment a priority became a "left wing" issue rather than a "humanity" issue. I'm not sure whose fault it was -- no doubt, like most problems, it was the fault of both sides. In the end it hurts everyone equally, as our planet becoming uninhabitable leaves everyone equally dead.

We're already so screwed that Stephen Hawking, a guy that's no doubt smarter than you or me or anyone we know, says that the colonization of space is essential "to avoid disaster in the next hundred years." We're well beyond bickering over whether "being green" is part of the correct agenda. The clock is ticking. Saving our planet needs to be priority #1 for everyone.

(Hopefully by the time I take charge, this will no longer be necessary. Hope hope hope.)

Re-engineer college football

Now seems an appropriate time for a careful, articulate critique on college football. So I'll take a moment to say this:

The members of the BCS oversight clusterfuck need to all be tarred and feathered.

Obama wanted a playoff system, and surprise! The BCS committee didn't. You neglected to show them what's what, Nobama. Soon it will be my turn to step in.

The entire college football not-so-playoff system is cleverly designed to be the most miserable trainwreck imaginable. The most obvious failure of the Bowl Championship Series is that it has nothing to do with a championship. It replaces legitimate, structured competition with speculation by trying to find a middleground between which team played the best and which team is "actually" the best. However, the whole point of competition is to see who comes out on top when it counts. That's what makes it so exciting. The current system makes the college football experience a disappointing mixture of baseball's sleep-inducing 162-game season and reading US Weekly.

A grade schooler could easily craft a better system. There's only one reason not to change it: money. If there were a real system, regular season matchups and bowl bids couldn't be bought and sold. There's an absurd amount of money in college football, and the racket its handlers have managed to create is nothing short of criminal.

Post large scale tar-and-feathering, there will be no "shares" of championships to quibble over. Your team either won when it counted, or they didn't. (And players will get paid, 'cause God knows they deserve a slice of that pie.)