So about fifteen minutes ago I think I had a panic attack (I literally Googled "feeling of impending doom). Which was weird. Because all I was doing was taking a shower.

It was one of the scariest things I've ever experienced. There was a huge looming feeling of impending doom, nothing felt real, I was totally detached but swimming in fear, and I was pretty sure I was about to die. I never want to go through anything like that again.

This ever happen to anybody else?

-N

Who has the right to decide what you can and cannot be exposed to?

Many of you may have heard of Ellen Hopkins, the author of Tricks, Impulse, Crank, Burned, Identical, and others. Personally, I am a big fan of her books because they deal with real-life issues such as self-harm, teenage relationships, prostitution, suicide, drugs, etc.

Ellen has had her invitation to attend the Humble Teen Lit Festival (Humble is a suburb of Houston, TX) rescinded.

Why? What did she do to offend? She had previously been a speaker at two schools in that area, had she conducted herself in a way where she was deemed unfit to speak with the children again?

Her invitation was rescinded because of one librarian and a couple of parents. Out of hundreds of librarians and thousands of parents, a couple of narrow-minded people get to decide that a New York Times bestselling author can't come to their festival because they don't want their kids, their kids, reading her books?

These few people went to the superintendent and ask that Ellen be uninvited, and he agreed, even though he had never read her books.

What about the other kids whose parents said it was okay? What about those other kids who had been dying to meet their favorite author? What about those kids who's lives were changed thanks to one of her books, and wanted to thank her?

Censorship is a huge problem! We are lucky to live somewhere we can read anything we want, and when that starts to be taken away, we need to get angry.

If you want to e-mail the boneheaded super, his e-mail address is Guy.Sconzo@humble.k12.tx.us, though please refrain from cursing.


Keep your restrictions to yourself. 

Today was the final day of summer vacation.

I'm not quite sure how to feel about this.

I've been so busy this summer, it doesn't feel like I had a vacation.

I need some Me-Time.

And a good book.

And a hammock.

I really want a hammock.

-N

Proposition 8 has been temporarily overturned in the state of California. For those of you who don't know what this means, it means that gay marriage is no longer illegal there.

Now I know some people (a lot of people) are against gay marriage, but let me ask you this: why shouldn't homosexual marriage be considered equal to heterosexual marriage?
What defines a marriage?

Love? Check.
Two consenting adults? Check.
Commitment? Check.

Its the merging of two lives as one.

*Angry Christian storms into the room, pushes Nobody out of her chair, and takes over the computer.*

But it says in the Bible that it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve! Its supposed to be between a man and a woman! God says so! - Angry Christian.

*N gets up and pushes AC out of the chair and ties them up on the floor. This is a written account of the dialog I had with the AC*

Dear Angry Christian,
Are Christians the only ones who get married? No? Then why should your definition of marriage bind the rest of the country to your ideals? There's a reason there is a separation of church and state specifically designated in the Constitution.
-Nobody

"But we're RIGHT." -AC

Dear AC,
Who says? You have freedom to believe what you want and the rest of the country has the freedom to believe what they want. I myself am Jewish (insert Angry Christian comment about how I'm going to burn in Hell here). The USA is a melting pot, where people of all beliefs coexist (not without disputes, but thats true of any society) and are free to pray to whomever or whatever they want, if at all.
-Nobody

"But gay marriages are just WRONG!" -AC

Dear AC,
Then don't get one.
-Nobody

Leave your opinions and rebuttals in the comments. Especially your rebuttals >:)