Discrimation

  • NaPoWriMo Day Nine

    Once again finding myself with no idea what to write, I just started stringing rhymes together.  Sometimes, allowing my mind to wander off and do it’s own thing frees it up to write a far better story than any I might conciously construct. I hope you enjoy the result. Lover On The Hill A tree…

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  • As I sneak up on the midpoint of the NaPoWriMo challenge, I wanted to get a bit more personal again. I’ve been the person who assumed their view was the only one. Fortunately, I’m slowly growing out of it. This poem is about the need to make that change, both as individuals and a society.…

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  • It’s Illegal Stupid!

    The ACLJ (American Center for Law and Justice) wants everyone to sign its petition demanding that Iran free Pastor Saeed Abedini. Mr Abedini is a former Muslim who converted to Christianity and went on to become an ordained minister with the American Evangelist Association. He also became an American citizen through his marriage to an…

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  • The Uncritical Thinker

    A post has shown up in the Facebook updates of a couple of people I know which got me a little wound up.  Being me, I quite naturally fired off a response and moved on, but I couldn’t get it out of my head.  It kept nagging at me, so I did a bit more…

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  • When Different Is Deadly

    Fourteen year old Jamey Rodemeyer from western New York has allegedly killed himself as result of bullying and harassment over his sexuality. At a school dance attended by his sister who had just been to his wake, the dance organizers played his favorite song in his memory. Some of the students present chanted, “better off…

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  • Feel Safer Now?

    Here’s how the scenario unfolds.  The police follow a suspect in an active investigation.  They observe him go into the woods.  Fifty minutes later, he emerges, and drives away.  The officers enter the woods and observe an area where the pine needles and soil appear disturbed.  The following day, a forensic team returns and unearths…

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  • “No Fat Chicks Or I’m Gonna Scrape”  That’s what it said on some wannabe cool guy\s lowered Acura.  If it’s illegal to put blatantly racist comments on public display, what makes this okay?  Is anyone going to try and tell me that this type of filth is less hurtful than a racial epithet? Can I…

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