Sickening! Ranks right up there with how much time is wasted behind a desk, pushing papers, making pretty pictures for Superiors who will give them a glance and shuffle them aside. Making nice with fellow employees while at the same time plotting to make them look bad by comparison so at review time, the raise money heads my way. Suck up to Supervisors only becuase they control the money, not necessarily because they're better people.

Servitude - whether to a job or to a computer. Is that what our lives have become? Where free time means where to spend one's money? Is it right that we have to pay for freedom?

I know - "Calm down Mahatma! Take a vacation. Go see the great outdoors. Breathe some clean air." Sure, if I could afford a vacation and arrange the time to take the kids out of school. Why not wait until summer when everyone takes vacations and prices shoot up?

Servitude - where, if you're not of the privileged class, your life is plotted out for you.

(This crappy feeling always happens when my stocks go down...ignore me)

Wolfowitz and Bono
This doesn't compute on a variety of levels:

Wolfowitz Discusses World Bank Mission with Bono

Fri Mar 18,12:49 AM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Paul Wolfowitz, whose nomination as World Bank president has stirred controversy, discussed poverty and development issues with Irish rock star Bono in two phone conversations on Thursday, an adviser said.