There's gonna be a rant here. Y'all should rather familiar with my (lack of) religious leanings by now, so fair warning. And some clarity: to my Christian friends... I love y'all and think that y'all tend to be rather awesome (your my friend - how could you not be?! *grin*). But sometimes things come across my feed and I feel the need to respond.

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I hate dealing with racist people at work. There's nothing you can say without it becoming this big thing and then potentially losing your job. And since it's unlikely I'm going to change a person's mind in the course of one short customer/employee interaction, I choose the route of keeping my job. It does make me feel ashamed of myself, that I don ( Read more... )

(Originally posted on Facebook on Sept 10, 2010)

I did my civic duty as an American Citizen today and helped a man enact his First Amendment right to free speech.  It made me furious to have to do it and the man in question is an exemplar of a short-sighted close-minded moron of a human, but I do stand by and defend his right (to be an idiot).  ( Read more... )

Maureen Johnson, an amazing author who writes some pretty darned good teen books like 13 Little Blue Envelopes and Suite Scarlett and Girl at Sea and Bermudez Triangle and Devilish and The Key to the Golden Firebird, has quite a bit to say about sex education and Bristol Palin (Sarah Palin's daughter) and the way the world does work and the way the ( Read more... )