useless info i guess

I would like to start off this blurb by making a correction in regards to my previous blog about rhetoric. I posted that blog before the class really discussed the readings. If you didn’t read the blog, I basically said that I felt rhetoric was very loosely defined, and that rhetoric is how we communicate. Well, that is sort of true, but not all the way. We use rhetoric very often in communication, but rhetoric is not simply communication. From what I have gathered in class and in readings, rhetoric is a very fine art form people use to persuade somebody else to see things a new way. There is much more to this, but I don’t feel like babbling on about class related topics this time.

The thing I most want to talk about, or complain about, is that Wednesday on my way to English class I was pulled over on my bike and given a citation. The citation was for riding my bike through a crosswalk. I don’t even think that is illegal, and if it is, I don’t believe it warrants the $135.60 fine that went along with it. The police officer informed me that I can attend a three hour bicycle safety course, and they will void out my ticket. Needless to say, I am not really looking forward to a course that I took when I was 5 years old and just got rid of training wheels. Well, I feel better now that I vented. I would just like to throw some advice out to any bike riders that may be reading this, and that is don’t perform the horrendous crime of riding your bike through crosswalks if there is a cop on the other side of the road waiting for you. Why didn’t anybody teach me that? If you need a small refresher, Wikipedia has some great bicycle safety tips for you hot rodders out there.

P.S. If any of you haven’t read The Onion yet, I recommend the clip on Bush’s “New Anti-Terrorism Strategy”. I found it to be hilarious. Alright then, adios!