Welcome...and initial guidelines...

This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

Weekly plans and other materials will always be posted in Vista, not this blog. So go to Bb Vista to get the discussion prompts and other instructions.

I intend this blog to manage our discussions and track our collective investigation.

You should have received an email from me inviting you to become a contributor to this blog. The email was sent Monday afternoon to your official Drexel email address.

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Driving in NJ

One commonly held belief in NJ is that visitors from Pennsylvania are terrible drivers. Most frequently, people get frustrated when Pennsylvanians drive on or under the speed limit or sit in the left lane on highways (left lane D...s). Likewise, people from NJ are notorious for tailgating, passing illegally over the double line, cutting you off, and flipping you off. Being from NJ, it can be pretty frustrating to drive with either of these kinds of people, and there are a LOT of them. I can't say these stereotypes aren't entirely untrue, because they happen so frequently, especially in the summer when lots of people come to visit. I live near Ocean City, a popular visitor destination, and traffic gets heavy on our not-big-enough roads. All the time, it seems that someone, slow from PA or a jerk from NJ, is there to make driving a royal pain.

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