Another Reason Texas is #1: Homeless Families in the Parks

http://www.alternet.org/speakeasy/diane-nilan/another-reason-texas-1-homeless-families-parks

Company Tries to Fine Customer $3,500 for Leaving Negative Review Online

http://mashable.com/2013/11/19/kleargear-negative-review-fine/

Why I Will Never, Ever, Go Back to the United States

http://www.alternet.org/why-i-will-never-ever-go-back-united-states?

Revolt of the Rich

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article36575.htm

Bill Gates Can’t Build a Toilet

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/opinion/bill-gates-cant-build-a-toilet.html

How a Radical New Teaching Method Could Unleash a Generation of Geniuses

http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/

The difference between a single payer healthcare system and the system set up by the Affordable Care Act

http://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1r0feo/eli5_the_difference_between_a_single_payer/

What I Learned About Humanity From Living on the Streets

http://www.alternet.org/economy/what-i-learned-about-humanity-living-streets

How do I begin learning about how to Self Validate?

http://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/1qoo5c/how_do_i_begin_learning_about_how_to_self_validate/cdf4lqi

Boy, 15, Kills Self After Facing Expulsion and Sex Offender Status for Streaking

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/boy-15-kills-self-after-facing-expulsion-and-sex-offender-status-streaking

UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to Edward Snowden, says UN official

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/15/uk-reputation-edward-snowden-un

When You’re Surrounded By People, But You’re More Alone Than Ever

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/when-youre-surrounded-by-people-but-youre-more-alone-than-ever/

The Trauma Myth: Understanding the True Dynamics of Sexual Abuse

http://www.alternet.org/story/146941/the_trauma_myth:_understanding_the_true_dynamics_of_sexual_abuse?paging=off

He's tough enough to be a Sissy in Wyoming

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-wyoming-cross-dresser-20131003-dto,2652951,1229172.htmlstory

Diary 20131110

The indomitable power of despair.
I don't mean the power of inflicting it.
The power of possessing it.

Willpower.
Why do I have willpower?
Why am I so much stronger than the rest of my family?
Discontent.

The inability to be content.
Disturbance.
Despair is all that binds me.
Holding me back from imbicilic rage.

I am not content.

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I watch.
I do nothing.
I cry.
I do nothing.
I laugh.
I do nothing.

There is one thing I want to do.
They tell me to stop.

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How can I tell my story?
What is my story?
Do I even have a story?

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I still don't know what it is I am trying to do.
Fix the world?
Save the world?
Condemn the world?
Break the world?

When something is broken, it isn't destroyed.
Instead, it's changed, drastically.
Yeah. I want to break the world.

Sometimes, fixing a person,
requires breaking who they currently are.
Otherwise, how will they become someone new?

Destroying pillars that support the current corruption.
Leaving a system that collapses.
Ruins that can be used.
Build.
Build again.
Again.
No matter how many times it falls.
Build.
Build again.
Again.

Don't rebuild.
Just build.
Again,
and again.

Build.

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It is not despair that makes me strong.
It is despair that lets me be strong.
Without despair, my strength, would break me.
It already did.

How many times?
I can't remember.
I don't remember all the people I've been.
I only remember who I am now.

No. It's not can't. It's won't.
Remembering...
Not something I will do.
Such things. I will not let them return.

It broke, because I wanted it to.
I don't like who I was.
I don't like who I am.
I don't like who I will be.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.
Break.
Build.

That many times?
Maybe.

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Why am I writing again?
I don't know, but I like it.
I like it when I write.

Silence is lonely.

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My mind became full, that's why I wrote. It overflowed.

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Perhaps it's not my story I need.
What I need to write is the story of who I want to be.
I don't know that story.

To change, I must find that story.
Or make it.

Passing on body hatred

http://www.essentialmums.co.nz/mums-life/health/8757837/Passing-on-body-hatred

A Light That Never Goes Out

http://comics.lucyknisley.com/2013/08/a-light-that-never-goes-out-2/

How To Have A Longer Marriage Than Kim Kardashian.

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/05/10/marriage-tips/

How I Learned I Was Pro-Choice by Secretly Aborting My Friend’s Baby

https://medium.com/human-parts/a68cb0bac109

5 Common Crime Fighting Tactics (Statistics Say Don't Work)

http://www.cracked.com/article_19455_5-common-crime-fighting-tactics-statistics-say-dont-work.html

They Thought They Were Free

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.html