June 2011
“Censorship is telling a man he can’t have a steak just because a baby can’t chew it.”
—Mark Twain
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I want a new, censored version of Huck Finn where all the ‘niggers’ have been replaced, not with the world ‘slave’ but just with ’ “n”-word’. N-word Jim, has a nice ring to it.
“The United States will always do the right thing—when all other possibilities have been exhausted.”
—Winston Churchill
Made the second round of the interview process!
Now comes the part that every writer hates - the test project.
Mojo, please!
Mojo Sent!
http://www.tellyoursecrets.com
I found this website by accident about a year ago. I actually just googled “tell your secrets”, and this came up.
I like this website, mostly because I like Post Secret. I’ve sent in a handful of secrets to Post Secret that have not been posted (not that I would admit to them if they were. They’re secrets, after all). Although I realize the point of Post Secret is not to get your cards posted but to let your secrets out to an anonymous audience. The release of secrets is certainly therapeutic, but putting those post cards together is difficult for the non-visually talented like myself (which might be why my secrets have never been posted).
This webstie is much easier to deal with. You follow it, add your e-mail (only) and type in your secret in the box. Click submit and that’s it. From time to time you will get an e-mail from the site of a secret someone else submitted. It works out the same as Post Secret, minus the volume.
I have found it very helpful when I have felt like Midas’s barber, I had a secret that I just had to tell. I told it, and I feel better. I highly recommend doing the same.
One draw back, though. The programer never finished the final touches on the site, so when you submit your secrets, you can’t use the apostrophe. So, that creates for some interesting usage.
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“I cannot deny a person, a human being, a taxpayer, a worker, the people of my district and across this state, the State of New York, and those people who make this the great state that it is the same rights that I have with my wife.”
—NY State Senator Mark Grisanti (R)
Well...later
I wrote a post about gay marriage that is set up to post in a few weeks, but because it would be more timely now, I’d like to throw this out there now.
Marriage is not a religious creation that is used by society. Marriage is a societal creation that was taken over by religion. Marriage is whatever society needs it to be at a given time. Sometimes it was one man with many wives, sometimes it was one woman with many husbands. Other times it’s been communal, other times not.
What we need marriage to be now is equal.