Some People...

I really think that some people need to worry about their own house and stay out of other people's. This came across my facebook news feed today and really hacked me off. First off, this is NOT in Nashville it is in Seymour, Indiana.

Pornography is NOT illegal. Is it immoral? That's for each individual person to decide. I say this because I went to the website for the organization that is doing the protesting and in their own words they say, "Lion's Den customers daily bring the actual proof of the obvious danger sex businesses bring to residential neighborhood, by their lewd, illegal and often dangerous behavior. We post it for the world to see."

So I went to their "gothca" page to see these lewd, illegal and dangerous acts. All I see is a bunch of idiots mugging for the camera and none of it is illegal (except for the whole bag thing but she could have easily taken the items out of the bag herself). The people behind this website like to generalize that all porn consumers act this way. Again, with no proof.

It seems that the whole argument against Lion's Den is that it is in a residential area. Maybe it is. I personally don't think there should be a porn shop on every corner but as long as it is operating inside the law I don't care. There have been arguments both  for and against the porn issue. Ultimately it comes down to no one knows!

Here in Nashville we have a Hustler Hollywood store that regularly has protesters outside the store. Although this store is in an urban non-residential area they still draw protesters. I think it's time that the rest of us who are not insane should start protesting the protesters. All these people are doing is impeding the business practices of law abiding establishments and strong arming patrons into not shopping at these places with veiled threats and "shaming." I think it's time we ask ourselves, "What would Larry Flint do?" I'm a huge proponent of the First Amendment and freedom of speech and freedom of religion should both be preserved at all costs. But just because you have the freedom of both these things does not give you the right to force yours on everyone else.

Common People

A few years ago I ran into a girl I knew back in college. I hadn't seen her in many years and oh how things had changed. Back in school I really wanted to get to know her a lot better but I had a girlfriend at the time and quite honestly she was a bit too wild for me. Still, she was beautiful and I couldn't deny the attraction. We kept running into each other over the years. Each time she paid less and less attention to me until we just smiled at each other and never spoke.

Fast forward almost a decade and I saw her at the post office. I'm not sure that she saw me but she was still beautiful and had a kid in tow. I watched her get into a Lincoln Navigator and drive off presumably to her very nice Hendersonville house. Back in school she liked to party and seemed more attracted to guys like myself than someone who could buy her a Navigator. I remember finding out that she came from money which might explain her attraction to guys that didn't have it. Just goes to show that eventually poor little rich girls find their own.

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