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I'm not voting for either one. They're equally necessary as one is ineffective without the other. Soul needs skill to make it articulate and skill needs soul to make it ...

The death penalty seems unnecessary, risky, immoral, and hypocritical, and although it's impossible to know how I'd feel in the situation of having lost a loved one to murder, I ...

"There's a smell of stale fear and it is reeking from our skins The drinking never stops because the drink absolves our sins." -The Bravery, "Believe" "We're all the same ...

I'm a vegetarian not because I think eating meat is necessarily wrong but because I object to battery farming. I'd love to see free range farming replace battery farming. More ...

Just fnished Romeo and Juliet which is amaaaazing. Now reading The Reader by Bernard Schlink and The Grapes of Wrath for school

I don't listen to music WHILE I'm writing, but for inspiration I like Regina Spektor, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, The Shins and lots of classical stuff.

Whoever said we are obsessing over celebrities... we're not, really. We're not stalking these people, we just find them attractive and talented. Alright, so I adore Johnny Depp. He is ...

[quote]Hmm, I've always disagreed with the argument that pictures of skinny models make teenage girls want to starve themselves. Do they think we're all so impressionable? Eating disorders don't just ...

I chose "the actual writing." Since I write poetry and short stories, it's the subtleties of the language itself that appeal to me the most- just the satisfaction of writing ...

And yeah, people who have eating disorders are not necessarily superficial. In my experience (with other people's EDs) it's not just about being skinny but about control, like Emma said, ...

Thank you so much for making this post, Snoink. THe media in this country is sp ****ing sick it makes me want to cry. Seriously.

Your face is a cliche, Gadi. But anyway... it's pretty near impossible to write without ANY cliches, because basically, all the good ideas have been taken. They should be avoided, ...

I consider myself a feminist to an extent, and I love Firefly and Serenity. Firefly is fabulous, and this article is silly. I agree with Incandescence that this writer was ...

How to change education in the US? Stop testing the heck out of us. I really do not think that standardized tests mean anything. Seriously, the SAT would not measure ...

Especially funny for Bob Dylan fans.