Guantanamo Bay is an embarrassment to the principles we as a nation's citizenry are meant to uphold. Before we can begin to keep our heads up high, we must recognize that the government is servile to the Constitution, and the Constitution forbids government from pursuing indefinite waivers of certain fundamental judicial procedures, meant to ( Read more... )

As the subject title says, this isn't a meme. It is, however, based upon something a very good friend of mine posted elsewhere on the Internet. So, my homage to "Jerry," who's not Irish, is this:

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This is not a political post. I am not writing as a leftist, nor as a critic of the Republican Party. I want everyone who reads this to know that I am certain that there are elements in the GOP that object to what was shown at the Convention last night, and they are as affected by it as I am. What I've got to say is not to be lessened in its ( Read more... )

I am sick of being called unpatriotic when I use my brain. Fuck off, you dimwitted, sycophantic automatons. You don't deserve the right to vote, but my beliefs preclude me from supporting a move taking it away from you. Like in so many other ways, my lack of desire to inflict a special kind of pain on you is not out of cowardice, or even a freedom ( Read more... )

I am an overworked and underpaid individual; a young idealist whose aspirations for living in a better world have come under steady attack from just about all corners of society. I grew up overseas and spent most of my childhood defending a country I knew only through books and summer vacations. I knew, in my heart of hearts, that the image ( Read more... )

I don't quite know why I'm breaking my hiatus this morning; it's become a fact that whenever I enact a hiatus on this journal, I am filled with ideas of pertinent things to write. I believe I actually have a story to tell, and it's been gnawing at me for the past hour. So here it is, unfiltered and gut-spilled.

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Some of you have asked how my Valentine's Day went. Well, I decided to wait a couple days so as not to rain on y'all's parade. ( And when it rains, it pours )