So the US Supreme Court decided today that it's unconstitutional to force corporations, a legal entity that is never mentioned in the Constitution, to restrict their voice in politics. This, along with the decision that granted basic corporate personhood, has elevated every business from the mom-and-pop grocery store down the block to Walt Disney ( Read more... )

I'm seeing more and more lately that I have negativity problems. I'm going to be working on ripping at least some of them out by the roots. This constitutes change. I don't like change. It makes me touchy. So does easing my depression thanks to being on Celexa. I'm going to try not to let it bleed over much more than I already have, but I do beg ( Read more... )

If I say "I love you," unless it's necessary for my sanity and self-respect to rip that sentiment out by the roots, I mean it for keeps. The relationship may fall apart. It may just drift. Or the person may stay in my life for years and years. But the place in my heart remains. It causes a bit of pain sometimes, but I prefer the comfort of the ( Read more... )

Is cynicism truly the opposite of naivete, or is it merely a rebellion from it?

I can be at work and think, "Hey, I have something I want to post about to my LJ. It'll be nice to get it down." But I choose instead to be a good girl and find work to do. So when I get home, I am no longer inclined to write it. Of course, I'm also getting tired and really don't know if I could do justice to the concepts in my head, especially ( Read more... )

I'm not going to detail where in this song exist the points where I either don't want to admit it's true or it just doesn't quite fit. They're there; as I re-read the lyrics, I feel them rise up like rough spots on wood. But of many songs I've heard that speak to a lot of where I am, cadhla, you managed quite accidentally to hit me where I live with this ( Read more... )

In the "should be obvious but sometimes isn't" department, I wanted to note for the personal record that listening to myself means saying "no" at least as often as saying "yes." But being me, the trick is picking when to say which ( Read more... )

My life has never been simple. It's time I started embracing that.

It took me this long to fully appreciate how sad "Maggie May" is. Add that to the list of songs I only came to comprehend years after I first heard it, like "Singing Me Softly" or "Hey Nineteen". Nothing special happened to force the point in any of those cases. I just realized I had the perspective to look at the lyrics and understand what they ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I can look at someone whose opinion of me is wildly off-base, and I don't care what they think. Other times, they do something or say something in my view that makes me want to rip their heads off. Naturally, that's when they tend to be acting in the same fashion they did when they decided I was less than pond scum. I fervently wish I ( Read more... )