2008 Woodie Awards
I think that everyone can agree that thanks to the politicians of Massachusetts, it is now extremely difficult for people to come into the ownership of firearms. Regardless of how good a person's intentions are, there are laws in place that make buying their second amendment right a long and arduous process that doesn't even guarantee profitable results, ultimately.
It's 9 p.m. in Munich (which means it is about 3 p.m. on the east coast) on Tuesday, June 3. I'm sitting in a bar, enjoying some Bavarian beer and trying to think of the subject of this article for the newspaper. I had a different one written, about my personal experience with the Czech culture, but I junked it.
I am unemployed. Twenty, single and unemployed. This situation that I have found myself in makes me wonder what will run out first, the summer or my personal savings. It will be a close call. After spending the first three weeks of summer vacation in Europe, I returned home to Cambridge under the impression that summer employment was the least of my worries.