April 2nd - The Interview

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Why does Christina stumble

As she returns to her world?

Why does her composure crumble

As her path lays now unfurled?

What despair does she expect

Upon opening her wooden door?

What chores did she neglect

That her husband will beat her for?

What inquires will pelt her

While she rushes to make dinner?

Where can she take her shelter

From her sainted man turned sinner?

Where will she dry her tear

That silently rolls down her cheek?

How will she again hide her fear

Behind the veil of the meek?

And oh, why does she return

To a man that cannot grow?

What new lesson can she learn

That she does not already know?

April 1st - Power Struggle

A misogynistic God created man in HIS image

And through the women’s heart the first man did pillage

For HE gave men the power to put women in a trance

To corrupt through her virtue with a well-brandished glance

After not too long, that first curious girl could no longer keep her eyes hidden

From the luscious fruits her senses had heretofore forbidden

For even her coyest gaze could give no equal match

To the arousal that his enchanting sneer could catch

And so she drunk deeply of his gaze

Where only the most doomed of all the strumpet plays

And what’s more, she bid him gaze her back

Into the folds of her luscious locks hinting a shade of crimson black

And more than her guard was now circumvented

For now it is HE to the priest who should have repented

For the power he used to initially stir her emotion

She stole in that lustful gaze before he even had the notion

As Prometheus once pilfered the fire from the Gods

She too blasted through all the stacked against odds

As she usurped his power that was always rightfully hers

Drunken on this lure that in her soul he no longer stirs

And she now owns the power that will never be his again

Thus began the reign of how women began destroying men.

The First Amendment: A Writer's Perspective...

All right, the First Amendment does a LOT more good than harm, but the recent harm that it has been exploited to do seems to MORE than make up for the difference. Namely...Alexandra Wallace. For those amongst us NOT familiar with that name (no doubt VERY few in number due the the wildfire her words have strewn across the Internet) she is more frequently referred to as the "UCLA Racist." Feel free to look her up on YouTube.com if you like, but I must warn you she says some VERY offensive things about the Asian people that I personally find appalling.

After watching her VLOG rant disparaging the Asian community as a whole, as well as several response videos to it which range from satirical love songs to near death threats, my opinion has come to be simply this: she is NOT inconsiderate...she's just plain s-t-u-p-i-d...STUPID!!!

You see her main issue in her rant is about Asians talking on the phone in the library and how it is interrupting  
her ability to study and finish having her "epiphany" as she puts it. While I completely agree that it is inconsiderate for ANY person to talk on a cell phone while in the library (or in church, or in a movie theater, or while driving, or anywhere that quiet/concentration is preferred) let's face it, a big-breasted, bottle-blond, blue-eyed, (not to mention clearly racist) white girl is NOT going to be the source of the idea for world peace. This is the ONLY point of semi-agreement that I have with her opinion; pretty much EVERYTHING else she says just falls into the "Completely F@#$ing Stupid" category. If this is the kind of Political Science majors UCLA is churning out these days, then I weep for the future political relations of mankind in general.

But here's the thing...just because I COMPLETELY disagree with her opinion, that doesn't mean that the First Amendment doesn't give her the complete right to say it, and that ALSO doesn't mean that ANYONE can physically hurt her because of it. It's an "All or Nothing" kind of deal; either everything is allowed to be said, or nothing is. The founding fathers built this nation upon the principle that a person cannot be physically harmed for expressing their opinion, and that freedom has given many people a voice that otherwise would have been murdered for expressing what they believe. We, as Americans, have a right to believe in whatever idea that we personally see fit without fear of physical damage because of the First Amendment, and THAT is one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, right that any of us can have.

Finally, I will leave you readers with 2 quotes; the first is attributed to Voltaire, an 18th-century French Enlightenment writer, and the second to Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. 1) "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." 2) "Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule."