I hate Donald Trump ( Read more... )

One year ago today, my father came to my home and tried to instigate a fistfight with me on my front porch. He was angry that Heather and I had participated in an anti police brutality rally organized by Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson. Rather than beating him unconscious and stealing his teeth, I told him to get off my property else I would call the ( Read more... )

One of my oldest and best friends has commented several times recently about how my faith life is in shambles. And you know what? He's right. It is. I'm angry at God, I'm sick of myself, I'm disgusted with humanity, and I don't have a bloody clue what to do about any of it ( Read more... )

I've been pondering on this for several days now, and I never could find the right way to begin it, nor the right way to word it. My dear friend [lj user = ms_violet] posted about a man who, moved by recent events, has decided to destroy his handgun. I mentioned to Lindsay that I was considering doing something very similar. She asked me what I ( Read more... )

Here follows a discussion of some of my favorite bassists, just because the idea popped into my head at work today ( Read more... )

We had a technician from EPB out to the Ranch today to address some issues we were having with our modem/router/doohickey, when the following exchange took place ( Read more... )

I'm forty years old and I weigh over four hundred pounds. I work in a manufacturing facility, spending hours upon hours on my feet in punishing heat and brutal cold. Although I have a good relationship with my kids, there is an unending ache in my heart because I didn't get to be in their lives every day rather than just on weekends. My father ( Read more... )

Racism is not a mental disease. I've already seen claims online that Dylan Roof suffered from mental disease or another. At this point, it strikes me as just another attempt to justify/excuse/whitewash the actions of a white man who took some "insignificant" black lives ( Read more... )

This was the day I admitted it to myself. I'm still not prepared to write it out, but I'll remember what was going on when I scroll back through my posts and see it.

This was the day.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Crowdfunding/comments/33ijor/help_a_blind_musician_live_her_dream_if_youd_be/