So I finally got a job Target hired me as a protection...

So I finally got a job.  Target hired me as a protection specialist, which basically makes me the security person you see typically standing at the door.  I'm way, way overqualified and I'm pretty sure I'm going to feel like a complete moron in the outfit, but it's something, so I guess I can't really complain.  Besides that, I had another interview today at Lutheran Social Service to work part time with developmentally disabled women in Coon Rapids.  The interview went really well so I'm thinking... read more

A sampling. This is from a much longer story, tentatively titled The Perverted Misadventures of Xayara Xex the Queen of Whores . It's an epic, about a prostitute named Xayara, and her exploits and her progression from an high-priced whore to a figure of legend. He was no treat to look at, but that was not the trouble. Judging from his words, expressions, and body language, he was behaving like a man who thought women were there for his pleasure. She had seen it before, and while a certain part...

lit_melissa  had this on her lj, and i read it, felt my gut clench and my blood pressure go up, and decided to repost it. no cuts; i feel that people NEED to read this. Why people hate cops an essay by Derrick Jensen I’m scared to write this essay, scared to have it published, scared it will be read by police officers or customs agents, scared that the next time I’m stopped for some traffic violation or the next time I try to cross a border, some police officer or customs agent will...

Right, so I recently started visiting a new/old Jak-based RP board. It’s actually very good with decent rules. It’s a… little bit looser than normal, but not bad. Well, not all bad. Some of these profiles though, I’m torn between cringing and laughing my head off. My comments are in bold , and frequently nitpicky and possibly snarky. This first one is from a new type of experiment that sprang up the other day. A fusion of metal-head and elf. *Name: Subject 541 Nickname: Curse Because...

washingtonpost.com: Where Military Rules Don't Apply Blackwater's Security Force in Iraq Given Wide Latitude by State Dept. By Steve Fainaru Washington Post Foreign Service Thursday, September 20, 2007; A01 Blackwater USA, the private security company involved in a Baghdad shootout last weekend, operated under State Department authority that exempted the company from U.S. military regulations governing other security firms, according to U.S. and Iraqi officials and industry representatives...

"I Felt I Had to Do Something" The American religious community has seen few figures of the stature of Francis Sayre willing to speak out forcefully for peace and justice for all Middle East peoples. At the time of the Palm Sunday sermon in 1972, he was one of the most prominent spokesmen of American Christian­ity—a powerful and intellectually gifted man wielding the authority of Washington Cathedral's prestigious pulpit. Despite the price Sayre paid for his courageous stand, younger voices...