Way back in middle school (I think it was seventh grade?) we had a girl in my school whose family was from France. She wasn’t exactly an exchange student, but she kinda was. Her father had been transferred to the states for a year for work (I think he was at IBM, but I could be mis-remembering, it was a long time ago). At any rate, my whole ( Read more... )

I commented the other day that I feel like the United States has been slowing moving closer to a police state since 9/11. I found the draft of this post while looking for something else. I started writing this last year. I think it’s time I finished it and posted it ( Read more... )