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"Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?"
-- Ernest Gaines

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( Warning: I really don't know how to warn you about this post or what to warn you of, so just consider yourself warned and read on if you feel you must. )

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There is never a need to compel a free man to take up a cause that is both necessary and just; but a man who is drafted is never free, and thus his cause can never be assumed to be either necessary or just.

- David Wiggins

Learned about many of these reasons for avoiding Wal-Mart some time ago, both the important effects it has on communities and individuals, as well as the painful effects it had on me whenever I set foot in the dump! Happy to continue spreading the word… money talks and bullshit walks, but in this case, my money is walking away from the bullshit ( ( Read more... )

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The circumstances under which I would, might, have, or might have chosen to have an abortion are nobody's business but mine and those I choose to tell. They are not the business of any government. I do not accept the proposition that either the state or my sexual partner(s) should have any say over when and if I choose to bear a child. I do not ( Read more... )