NFL: I Missed you

Hooray that the NFL is back. Colts lost to the Pats last night in an exciting game. I was rooting for the Colts but wasn't too disappointed since I like Brady anyway. Eagles V Giants on Sunday - starting it off with a rivalry. Here's to a better start than last year.

This morning I thought I would check out the campaign web sites of Kerry and Bush. Kerry was easy to find at johnkerry.com although I did look first at kerry.com which is a supporter site.

On the other hand, Bush's official page is harder to track down. I first checked gwbush.com, then gwbush04.com, then some other site before I finally googled Bush. Fittingly, Bush, a parody of a leader, has many parody sites parked in well named domains.

Bush's site encourages people to vote early if possible ... I wonder if they are afraid people might change their minds if given too much time? It is a funny thought, but to be honest, I think the majority of Bush supporters would support him if Jesus himself campaigned against Bush.

Ultimately the same can be said about Kerry supporters who would likely come up with insulting (though funny!) slogans against the Dalai Lama if he ran as a Republican.

We live in what we call "an information age." What we really have at this point, is an overabundance of information. We need to train kids (and adults!) in library sciences and such because there is more information than we have time to sort through it. I think people tend to grasp at whatever they first hear, first read, or first see on Teevee, as the ultimate truth for the simple fact that they heard it first.

This is the "first bias." If you hear two conflicting things from two sources of equal credibility, you will have more faith in the truthfulness of the first one merely because you heard it first. In a sense, it has become a part, albeit minor part, of you and you don't want to go against what you already believe.

Changing you mind is difficult ... reconciling opposing viewpoints is rarely easy. But as the bumper sticker goes, "If you haven't changed your mind recently, how can you be sure you still have it?"