"So, what's your major?"

Next to "What's your name?" and "Where do you come from?" that previous question is one of the things that you'll hear fairly often in college as one of your basic getting-to-know-you pleasantries.

Yet, as simple as the answer to this question may be, deciding on a major is a potentially irksome and harrowing decision that you will have to make on your own.

Undoubtedly, you've got friends and family telling you what you should study in college. An aunt notices you've got a knack with fixing things and pushes you to get a degree in engineering, or your mother is goading you to take pre-law since she thinks that your propensity for arguing with her about everything under the sun makes you especially apt for a career in the judicial system. [Read article]

Bush is active during vacation too

As expected, Dan Post tells only half the story about President Bush's purportedly excessive vacationing. The 42 percent statistic Post cites was first made popular in a 2001 Washington Post story, and later made permanent through the unctuous excretions of Michael Moore in "Fahrenheit 9-11."

The problem of the 42 percent figure is its dishonesty, though any amount of half-truths or outright fabrications are rendered palatable to those whose only purpose is a swift regurgitation of lies intended to discredit the president. Had Post decided to share the truth about the figure, he could have informed readers that The Washington Post included weekends and time-in-transit for purposes of calculation. [Read article]