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Entitlement.

There are a few people (one in particular that spurred this post), who, when I see them, just fill me with the worst feelings. Disgust, anger, an intense dislike. They are the spoiled ones, the ones who get what they want, or TAKE it, no matter who they have to step on in the process. They are heartless and cruel. They lie, cheat, and steal.
And yet, they always get what they feel they deserve. Karma never really gets around to them.

Maybe I'm being a little cruel myself, but I feel that if you're a heartless whore (man or woman) who takes advantage of people and uses them and breaks up their (or in some cases, your own) family, that you don't deserve to be happy. And you sure as shit shouldn't flaunt it.
Some people just deserve a high-five.
To their face.
With a chair.

The world is big.

Here's another XKCD comic for you guys to ponder over. This one is less meaning-of-life-y and a little more on the fun side; the bottom panel is an enormous click-and-drag. Be forwarned, if you start this, you could easily lose twenty+ minutes in it.
Website version here.

Balloons.

It's the beginning of my morning shift downtime at work (that time when most people are checked out and I'm just waiting for a few hours to make keys and check in the new arrivals, so naturally I resorted to the internet to entertain me (I'd crack open 50 Shades of Grey, but it's still too busy in the lobby to read, which requires me to block out everything else.)
One of my favorite webcomics is XKCD, "A webcomic of romance,sarcasm, math, and language." I've followed it for years and have probably only missed one or two strips. Anyways, the point. This strip in particular spoke to me a little bit. It's very much a metaphor for our busy, busy lives, and it just made me stop to think for a moment. People sometimes get entirely too focused on one thing that they let everything else go, and then it's mad scramble to try and catch up to everything else. We need balance.
I know I sure do.
To view the strip on the site, click here.

The American Scholar.

Lately (by lately I mean today) I've become very interested in a magazine called The American Scholar. It's about $30 for a year's subscription and shy of $60 for two years, but about half of the articles from each issue are available to read online, and there is a backlog of issues categorized here. It's definitely worth a glimpse.

This is one of my favorites (about climate change/control.)

This one too (about a serial killer from Japan, and a book that details it.)

And below, some articles I wanted to read but didn't get a chance to yet.

What the Earth Knows.

The Torture Colony.

Who Cares About Executive Supremacy?

Change traditions.

For those who think they're protecting "traditional marriage" by banning LGBT rights.

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I think the thing that makes me angriest about people like this is that they pick and choose parts of the bible to believe and enforce. What gives them the right I say that gay people are going to hell, but not people who get divorced, or who marry someone who isn't a virgin? NOTHING NOTHING gives them that right.

EVERY body is beautiful...including the little ones.

Okay, I can understand the whole big is beautiful, curves are natural movement. And I understand some people are naturally bigger. Some have health problems. But something that pisses me off about it is that people are giving shit to little people. And what I see a lot is that some people who are bigger don't try to do anything about it or that induced it themselves. I even saw a phrase online that said "real men like curves, dogs like bones." Well you know what, screw that. Yes some people are stupid and starve themselves, and that's wrong. Yes, some people make fun of girls that aren't that big and say cruel things. But some little people can't help being that way. Some little people try everything they can to gain weight and they just CAN'T. Some little people are really sensitive about how tiny and bony they are. So yes, our perceptions if what is big are skewed. But not everyone tries to make themselves healthier. And I'm tired of having been given shit my whole life just because I'm tiny. /endbitching.

Happy new year.

What do you do when someone changes who they are because of someone they're dating, and turns on you completely? When there is hardly nothing left of who they were, and who they are can't stand you, even though you try to accept it?
And everyone tells you it'll change, she'll learn, it won't last and she'll realize what's happening and that it'll get better, but you don't know if you can take it til then.

I just miss my sister.

Here we go again, I feel the chemicals kicking in...

What do you do, when you're headed down the same doomed road? You know the ride is beautiful and sweet (however short it may be) but the end is sad and disheartening. You can't stop yourself, because you think, what if there was a fork in the road I didn't notice before? A secret path that got skipped over? Where would it have lead? Would the destination have been as wonderful as the journey, or another horrible accident? I ask myself...and I don't know.