Not many people can live up to their own standards; it's practically impossible to do so, because with everything the way it is nowadays, it's improbable to avoid something. Most everything is a comprimise, usually leaving one to end up choosing the lesser of two evils; doing one, or many good things, will usually almost always result in, ( Read more... )

Not too long ago, in America-it happened other places, too, but let's keep it simple and to the point-the people commonly referred to as African Americans, negroes, etc., were denied their rights. They were lynched. They were abused. They were discriminated against. Back then, this kind of behavior was often tolerated, sometimes encouraged. ( Read more... )

What's your opinion of me? Or what's something you hate/like/think about me? Something like that. Don't post it anonymously, because your opinion isn't worth shit if you don't stick behind it and claim it as your own.

We're all looking for that one thing we can write that makes who ever reads it see through the paper as if it were some stained glass so they can see through it and see the way that we see, see through it and finally understand.

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I'd smoke cigarettes, drink alchohol, toke marijuana, snort coke, take E, shoot up heroine, ingest acid, eat shrooms, do meth, etc., before I'd ever eat a hamburger, because eating meat is a much more disgusting habit that doing any street drug.

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi ( Read more... )

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Use your voice, or your text, or anything, and take action. http://www.peta.org/feat-manoletemovie.asp I don't care if you're not one for animal rights, or not one for PETA. This isn't about PETA, this about taking action against something that doesn't need to be. You don't ( Read more... )

The streetlights glow green with anticipation, yielding to cars that will seldom come, the passersby to their own, lined-up empty in opposite rows, steering wheels barely visible in the dim light through the condensation on their windshields, a vacant audience to the faint hum of telephone wires and distant engines.