Stop the stupid Facebook hate

Knee jerk reaction to say that women create children and raise them for the public aid are hateful and ignorant. Carlos Lara and Yunikua Bentley , get your facts separated from rhetoric please.

Feeling Lost and Directionless. I am a Tortoise

I have always been amazed by people who knew where that were going in life and had a plan to get there. Back in my days at public school I was awestruck by the secret lives of my friends who were whole people outside of school – they went on family vacations, had hobbies, were world […]

Happy Gay Day

Or " Love Wins " day.

Slavery, Dignity, and Human Rights

I’ll just hop into a time machine and tell the naked children being tied and whipped,oiled and sold for manual labor that they are dignified. In fact,I will find my closest human trafficking victim in the sex trade or sweatshop and tell them how f’ing didnified they are. Human equality and civil rights are Homeless […]

True story

I was outside @PandaExpress by Costco in Pacoima Ca with Darla. She ran to the last free chair and scrambled into it while we discussed Subway vs Panda. Suddenly, a dark figure in a baseball cap covered in tattoos rush toward me. I heard the sound of metal and then his whispered voice saying "Please, […]

Tinder VS @USC acceptance

So you see the handsome man on @Tinder and “Swipe Right” because he is everything you fantasied about your future soul mate. You know there is no way he will see your profile and “swipe right” as well because, well, maybe you have not felt like Soul Mate Material in a few years . So […]

Dear @24hourfitness

Dear 24 Hour Fitness, We need to talk. First of all, I appologize for ruffling feathers with my suggestion that people find the money for a gym membership if they see a financially destabilizing and possibly homless making crisis is on the way. I will not say that I am sorry for suggesting that everyone […]

Breaking Barriers – from jail to housing

I often hear that we should let our homeless live in jails and our criminals have to scrounge in the street. How about if no person had to live in the street? Could we try that? As we’ve discussed,crime impacts at least 3 causes of homelessness. Now here is a program designed to keep the […]

I Am Always Changing

Somewhere in all of Ben Franklin’s writings is a statement that is acceptable to change your mind in the face of better evidence and knowledge and to remain stubbornly in your mindset makes you a fool and a slave to your ego. With this in mind, I am always re-evaluating my stance on things and […]

Blame the mother? Must we ?

When a woman is paid significantly less than a man is, and the man in her family is not in the home but she has children to feed : a boyfriend is as much an economical tool as he is an emotional partner. If men are paid more, then a man is needed to pay […]