1: I think all White Americans are at least a little bit racist. It's been programmed into us from the day we were born, and getting wholly out from under it is impossible, at least for this generation. Not to say we should just lie back and accept it, but we should be aware of it, and understand how it colors our responses to everything. Whitey be ( Read more... )

Huh. It's not just me is it?
Of the people I know who are prone to genuine depression (you will know who you are when you read this)... who else is having a "Bad Day" today? It seems to be somewhat endemic.

Proper words for times like now: we'll get through it. We're awesome. Even if we don't believe it, we are.

I wrote this, I'm still wrestling with posting it to the FaceBorgs.... why? Because it seems a bit hypocritical to do so..on the other hand, it kinda amuses me. I'm torn. So I'm asking you, my trusted Wordholer friends, you, with your holes of wording that make with the wisdom and scintillating lexicographical glitter - is this the dumb? or the not ( Read more... )

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I'm doing a thing.

See, I believe (and this is just me myself and my brain), very firmly, that if you want to be a better person (and I do, as I feel most of us do...), then self examination & purely mental/emotional work is never enough ( Read more... )

Okay, so, at this point, I think I need to amend my "things I like" to unreservedly include rap, without including any of the usual BS modifiers one would normally put in front of that statement.

Once you reach the point where it's quicker to list the subgenres you don't like, rather than the subgenres you do like, then I think it's safe to say you' ( Read more... )

First, the link: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/09/politics/obama-same-sex-marriage/index.html?hpt=hp_t1

Then, the disclaimers:

1. I'm a straight guy, in a stable marriage. I really don't have a dog in this fight, except as it pertains to the well being of my friends.
2. I am, nonetheless, wholly in support of teh gays getting married. I retain my crackerjack ( Read more... )

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1O8Q03349J36D/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B004478G8S&nodeID=165793011&store=toys-and-games

Dante loves Ninjago. I'm coming to dread it.

I think I should start a religion. ALthough I hate that word, maybe a faith. It'll be really simple. It'll just be five little rules that can guide a person through life, and give them the framework to make their lives, and the lives of those around them, better ( Read more... )

        Am putting it here for Gits and Shiggles....
Is only  first draft, am to be rewriting and submitting final on wednesday

What Happens in a State of Solitude?

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly ( Read more... )