Its Kevin

  • not my Storey, but My Problem

    I saw a story that made me sad and angry. I shared it on Twitter so that others would see it and become just as outraged. The only person who replied to it, got angry at me because I didn’t change the text of the headline to fit the story’s content. I just used the…

  • Mommy Knows Best

    While sitting in my living room this afternoon I heard the slamming of a door, and a woman’s voice raised in anger. Not at a boyfriend or husband, but at her child. I almost shrugged it off, until I heard what cause Mommy Dearest’s outrage. The child had, horror of horrors, swung on her in…

  • Human Rights Watch report says DC’s police under-report sexual assault complaints

    (Washington, DC) – Victims of sexual assault in Washington, DC, are not getting the effective response they deserve and should expect from the district’sMetropolitan Police Department (MPD), Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Sexual assault cases are too often not properly documented or investigated and victims may face callous, traumatizing treatment, despite official…

  • A Wasted Vote

    “”I understand how difficult it can be for an African-American in today’s society. In fact, I can relate to black people very well indeed. My ancestors once owned slaves, and it is in my lineage to work closely with the black community. However, just because they were freed over a century ago doesn’t mean they…

  • Anger Caused by Drama

    It is hard to get inspiration, when people bring down your every word. You look for motivation, but instead there is just anger. Anger at the struggle young brothers go through to survive. Anger at the sisters tossed up and to the side. Anger at the reality sensibility makes us endure. Anger at the childhood…

  • Keep Your Hands to Yourself

    “You’ve got to be desperate to steel from a blind person.” I heard this argument from someone and it confused me. Confusion came not so much that the morality of stealing from the blind is wrong, but that from the assumption that stealing from others is acceptable. When I was a child at my mother’s…

  • The Casual Vacancy

    The Casual Vacancy, perhaps the most hotly anticipated book of the year, will be published on 27 September and is set in a small town called Pagford, described by her new publisher Little, Brown as an English idyll “with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey”. The story is set in motion by the…

  • Boomerang Generation Sanguine About Staying with Mommy And Daddy

    More than three-quarters of young adults ages 25 to 34 who have moved back home with their families during the Great Recession and the troubled economic years that followed say they’re satisfied with their living arrangements and upbeat about their future finances. Those arrangements have benefited their parents as well: almost half of all boomerang…

  • Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion

    Appeals court rejects anti-gay graduate student’s bid for reversal of her expulsion ATLANTA — The U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld a decision by a U.S. district judge who ruled Augusta State University may expel a graduate student who refused to comply with graduate degree program requirements citing her Christian beliefs that homosexuality…

  • Tip Thy Waiters Well

    I have never been a waiter, bellhop, soda jerk, or anyone who accepts less pay for honest work relying on the goodwill of patrons for tips. These folks have my undying respect, and thanks for putting up with the millions of irrational customers who cannot tell a rare steak from a piece of foam rubber.…