LETTER - Religious Freedom Amendment to the Defense Budget

I urge you not to include this amendment in the National Defense Authorization Act.

While I understand the rights of any American to conscientiously object, the language used - "any religious corporation, religious 5 association, religious educational institution, or religious 6 society that is a recipient of or offeror for a Federal Government contract, subcontract, grant, purchase order, or 8 cooperative agreement" - is very broad, and not limited to the Defense Department, allowing the possibility of considerable misuse.

I'm an American citizen, raised by a hard-working Evangelical family in Wisconsin. I am a former missionary and religious advocate and I understand the complexities of working within and around religious spaces. But I am also a gay woman, and, as such, I would be vulnerable to discrimination by any Federally-funded group that can claim some religious affiliation. I'm an average working American, and I could not afford to dispute the loss of a contract for which I was otherwise perfectly qualified. I would argue that the effect I would feel, as a employee denied work, is disproportionate to the discomfort of a Federally-funded employer who is morally opposed to homosexuality on religious grounds.

Certainly there should be and must be religious exceptions to discrimination laws, such as a military chaplain seeking religious supplies, and there must be the option, wherever it is appropriate and not harmful to others, of religious objection. But I argue that this would be harmful to many hardworking Americans, who might find themselves ineligible for work through an employer's subjective and often arbitrary beliefs about the immutable characteristic of those workers' bodies, a religion those workers follow (as fervently as their objectors), or a lifestyle decision those workers have the legal right to pursue (such as the gender of their spouse or the medications they choose to take).

As with many common-sense laws, the laws' weakness is that, while perhaps effective when exercised in the way it was intended, it has long-range unintended consequences that could potentially harm the employment of thousands of Americans in ways that are potentially very hard for an individual to contest. While the federal government has resources available to argue that they should, in a particular instance, be allowed to disregard certain discrimination laws (as in the case of the hypothetical chaplain), those discriminated against generally have little recourse.

Please do not include this amendment, which is potentially broad and damaging, and instead find a way to argue cases where and when they are needed without giving carte blanche to anyone claiming religious affiliation to discriminate against potential employees.

Regarding Crisis Pregnancy Centers

GOP and pro-life friends: let's talk about Planned Parenthood and Christian crisis pregnancy centers/women's clinics.

CW: Rape aftermath

"Just replace PP with pro-life women's clinics."

That's the #1 alternative I hear whenever defunding PP is on the table, which is every waking second of every day. First, please see my post on what "defunding PP" actually means, then read along with my story about how a pro-life women's clinic could have helped ruin my life.

When I was a kid, I used to do administrative busywork for the Pro-life office that's now called CareNet. Maggot and I would file papers and glue paper hearts together, so the abstinence educators could show how premarital sex damages people. It seems a little surreal now, but thankfully my family wasn't out waving around signs with dismembered fetuses on, screaming at the baby-killers. Office work was pretty innocuous, comparatively.

Fast forward twenty years, and I'm huddled at the police station late on a Monday morning, shivering in my work jeans and huge flannel shirt. I knew my rapist, we'd been good friends in the past, I wasn't sure if I wanted cops to go pick him up in a cop car. It had only been about 40 minute, and I was still reeling. The officer was kind, but dismissive. He told me if I didn't let them go pick this kid up now, I had no legal action I could pursue (which was, it turns out, TOTALLY FALSE). He only mentioned the SANE nurse obliquely, as an offhand that I couldn't get a rape kit done unless I filed a report right then (also false), and sent me to get STI testing at a women's clinic nearby, instead.

So I didn't know what to do. I was in shock, I had no idea what my options were, I didn't even know what a rape kit was, so what could I do? I drove myself to the clinic.

I got there, in tears, and babbled my story to the women there. But the women's long hair and denim skirts should have tipped me off: this wasn't a women's health clinic at all, despite the name on the building. It was just...I dunno? A center? They directed me to CareNet. One of them handed me a tract.

"No thank you," I said, as politely as possible. A tract? That was the last thing I needed: a tangible reminder of how useless this journey had been so far.

So I drove to CareNet, and I was calm, by then. I'd never been in the new building, but I knew these people once. Maybe they would help me. I was pretty sure they had actual health services.

The ladies were nice, and totally at a loss. They gave me water, and then made me sit through their entire abstinence presentation, including the tired, debunked correlation =/= causation relationships between, say, abortion and breast cancer or depression. They warned me about AIDS. They showed me big graphic printouts of STIs.

Let me remind you.

I was in the clothes I'd been raped in.

I hadn't changed or showered; I knew that much of the post-rape process.

It had now been about 3 hours and I'd just been raped by someone I thought I knew and I was waiting for STI testing and I was BEING SHOWN PICTURES OF STIs. How...How fucking tone-deaf can you be? How thoughtless? Yes, tell me how sex is bad, I was just RAPED, I think I fucking KNOW.

At one point, the woman stopped the presentation. "If you got pregnant from this, what would you do?"

"I'm on the pill, so I hope it's not an issue. If it were my boyfriend's? I dunno. I'm not in a position to make that call right now. But if it was from my rapist? I'd get an abortion in a heartbeat."

She looked horrified. "It's not the baby's fault," she said, angrily.

"It's not my fucking fault, either," I shot back. "He's already ruined enough."

And I sat there, shivering, because I didn't know what else to do, and because I thought these ladies had some way of helping me. They told me they had to do this presentation, and so I let them do the presentation, and finally, an hour and a half after I got there, it was finally over.

I asked about the STI testing.

"Well, we have a nurse-practitioner who comes in once a week, but she's not in for a few days. I guess we could collect a sample? She could test it when she's in this week?"

And that was it. THAT was the service they offered me. That's what they made me wait hours for. I wanted to scream, to cry, to die. Instead I gave them the sample (urine only; they couldn't do a blood test) and they sent me home. I threw my clothes in the trash. I left class early Tuesday and didn't go back all week. My boyfriend/roomate dumped me. I drank and drank and drank.

It was four days before I told anyone else.

That's when I found out about the SANE nurse. That's when I found out the piss test I'd done had done NOTHING for me, and of course it wouldn't have: 3 hours isn't enough time for anything to show in up a sample.

Here's what was supposed to happen:

Go to the SANE nurse, get a rape kit done, turn over my clothes to evidence. They'd give me prophylaxis for anything I might have been exposed to. They'd file a report themselves.

By the time I got to the hospital it had been 4 days, and I had obviously showered. The injuries had healed. The prophylaxis should have been administered; by Friday it was too late for most of the preventative meds to even be effective. I just had to hope that my rapist hadn't transmitted anything nasty.

My sister, bless her, took my keys, went to my house, and dug my clothes out of the trash. They're still in evidence somewhere. I remember when I was desperately poor I considered taking them back, because I needed work pants. That's a fun memory.

But the failure of the pro-life clinics was the icing on the betrayal cake. They had failed me in every conceivable way. They gave me no information. They gave me no care. They gave me no prophylaxis. They gave me one test that was worthless, anyway. They made me suffer the indignity of a fearmongering, scientifically-inaccurate presentation designed to make me feel shame for sex and fear for its consequences when I was in no position to defend myself against them. They didn't even have the capability to provide care, and this is the biggest pro-life clinic in Madison, which is presumably better staffed and equipped than most elsewhere in the state.

I trusted these people to help me. They did not, and their misinformation was worse than if I'd just gone home and googled "sti testing Madison."

"Why didn't you go to Planed Parenthood?" my sister asked me. "You go there for birth control anyway. They even have rape counselors. They'd have sent you straight to the SANE nurse or the RCC."

"I don't know; I panicked, I thought the cop knew what he was talking about, I trusted them, I thought they could help me."

3 months later, I went to a local non-profit and got my first HIV test. Clean. 6 months later, I went to PP and got a full round of STI testing. Their sliding pay scale (reimbursed with tax money! This is what that "funding PP is for!) meant I could get tested for free: urine and blood tests. I was clean.

I was lucky.

If I'd caught something dangerous from my rapist or been more damaged than I was, I'd be screwed. The incompetence of the pro-life clinics would have led to serious illness or complications.

So when people say "Pro-life clinics can provide the same services as PP," I'm here to tell you they absolutely cannot. They are NOT medical providers. Most of them are equipped with, at most, a single ultrasound machine. They are not staffed by medical personnel. They don't offer medical services. They can't give referrals. They provide no actual medical information for pregnant women. They use coercive tactics and inaccurate information to try and bully desperate women into making the choice that the clinic wants them to make. They can't do jack shit to help in an actual medical emergency.

Planned Parenthood is a MEDICAL PROVIDER, which is currently able, thanks to reimbursement, to provide low-or-no-cost medical care (NOT ABORTIONS THAT'S ILLEGAL SHUT UP IN ADVANCE) to low-income women like I was back then. I've been going to Planned Parenthood for about a decade: first for birth control and pelvic exams, then, after my rape, for periodic STI testing, now as a volunteer.

They staff is medically-trained. They're incredibly helpful and professional. They have a ton of information. They are an equipped and staffed medical facility. They provide comprehensive prenatal care and checkups for women who are or want to become pregnant. They give referrals. They do cancer screenings. They do all this despite threats to their life, political pressure, budget cuts.

And if you let that be taken away, there is nothing to take its place.

Three pleas pre-election: part 3

Final plea: Pro-life voters.

Yeah, this is a tough one. I don't envy y'all your choice; I truly don't. Any good and loving Christian is going to be very conflicted about Trump right now: on the one hand, Clinton will pick one and maybe two Supreme Court justices. On the other hand, Trump is a probably a child rapist and cruel and hateful and selfish and shortsighted and petty and thin-skinned and a pathological liar and monstrous in every definable way, but he claims he'll nominate pro-life judges.

Ok. Look. He's a LIAR, to the point where he flatly denies saying things he's just finished saying. He's consistently been pro-choice, up to "partial birth abortion" (which doesn't exist, by the way. No abortion provider in the country will perform that procedure on a live fetus. You can ask them!), and why not? Abortion on demand is convenient for a man who only cares about women inasmuch as he can use them as sexual playthings and brags about being an absent father. He was asked in the third debate if he was pro-life himself, and he waffled, saying he'd nominate pro-life judges.

But he won't. He has no reason whatsoever to keep his promises. He lies about everything else; why do you think he'll tell the truth about this? The Republican elite haven't been able to keep him in line so far, and once he's the Executive branch he'll have no reason to pretend to care about Christian morality, and he clearly doesn't share those morals, or any morals. Everything we've learned about his personality and business dealings is that he will exploit anyone for his own gain. Right now, he's exploiting your views to get your vote.

Let's talk about abortion, as it stands right now. Right now, at the end of Obama term #2, the US is currently at its lowest abortion rate since Roe v Wade. Not only that, but there are fewer unplanned pregnancies than there were in the Bush administration. This is partly because of access to contraceptives and partly because we've almost recovered from the recession, but also partly because teens are having sex later and having fewer partners than they were a decade ago. A lot of good trends are coming together.

Abortion is a symptom of other things: poor education, poor access to health care, and poverty are causal factors in unplanned pregnancy and abortion rates. Women with more options, more education, and health care access make better, healthier choices for themselves and their families. They have fewer unplanned pregnancies and fewer abortions. They have fewer partners. They have more stable families.

I understand that for you any abortion is one too many. But the disaster of a Trump presidency, which, assuming he follows through with anything he's promised, is liable to cause MORE economic hardship while also removing access to healthcare for many low-income Americans, is the kind of mess that INCREASES the unplanned pregnancy rate, and by extension the abortion rate. Banning abortion does reduce its frequency but not by as much as you would hope, and illegal abortions are widespread and dangerous.

And realize that a guy who wants to murder the families of terrorists is NOT pro-life. A guy who wants to use nukes on our enemies and spark a nuclear war is NOT pro-life. If you vote for him in the off-chance he'll pretend to be pro-life when it comes time to nominate a judge, you're trading a lot of other lives in exchange. He wants to turn away refugees, break apart immigrant families. He wants to kill the families of terrorists. He encourages people to shoot his opponent (4 American presidents have been assassinated) and threatens to jail her for crimes she has not, according to thorough investigations, committed. He wants people to beat protesters. He wants to commit war crimes. He wants to nuke countries. He wants to do these things EXPLICITLY. He says it out loud with his horrible mouth. He is telling you exactly what he is.

R v Wade is unlikely to be overturned, with or without his judge appointees. The fact is that most people in the US think there should be at least some access to legal abortion. You are not going to win it this way, with this man. Things are changing. Abortion rates are dropping. The culture is slowly shifting in ways that should give you hope.

This man is not your hope.

I know most of you cannot vote for Clinton, who is firmly pro-choice, and I understand that. My advice has been to write in John Kasich. Pro-life as the day is long and a nice guy. Clinton will probably win, but you won't have voted for the worst possible man who could be running for office, and you can try again next time around with a candidate who's NOT a fascist lunatic demagogue trying to actively undermine American democracy.

Three pleas pre-election: part 2

The next plea: Third party voters, and anyone who says "I don't like either of them"

I'm going to ask you to vote for Clinton. Vote for her with the full knowledge that she might have a scandal or two, or she might do things you strongly disagree with. Vote for her with the full understanding that when she does something wrong, you and I are a little culpable for that, because we voted for her. I'm asking you to share this burden, and I know exactly what I'm asking you to do, and I'm sorry.

I've always split my ticket. I've voted 3rd party both at the top and downballot. And this year, I'm voting my conscience. I'm voting for the candidate who will keep Trump out of office.

I have other reasons, but that ought to be enough. We have a pool of candidates. One of them is an unpredictable lunatic, one's a career politician, and the others are, frankly, inconsequential right now, because one of those other two are going to win, and we CANNOT LET IT BE TRUMP.

There's been a false equivalency painted between these candidates, as if their failings were comparable. But they are not. Clinton is obviously better prepared, better educated, and is the most experienced and qualified candidate in the race. She is calm, she is competent, she is knowledgeable. She's a policy wonk whose specialty is legal minutia. She's traveled first the country and then the world securing American interests. She knows how it works and will work within the law to change things.

She's also demonstrated she's willing to compromise to better represent her constituents. As the Democratic party moved left with Sanders, so did she, and it is our opportunity and our responsibility to give her the chance to fulfill our requests and hold her accountable for the promises she's made. She knows what the hell she's doing, you guys. Stein has ideas, Johnson has ideas, but Clinton has specific actions plans and follow-through, where she's already talked to economists and done the math. Our recalcitrant Congress will try to stop anything the new President tries to do (even if it's Trump, because that dude does not play ball), and Clinton is the only one with enough contacts and resources to get through. She's disliked, but she has allies, and some are across the aisle from her.

Clinton's biggest sin is ambition, or the appearance thereof, but she has been absolved of criminal wrongdoing in some pretty exhaustive investigations. While her Foundation certainly has the appearance of Pay-For-Play, for example, any deals cut with any donor countries was vetted by 4-6 other unrelated government agencies, and the Foundation has very transparent records and one of of the biggest factors in ending the AIDS epidemic (and, as you know, Trump's charity buys portraits of Trump and settles his lawsuits).

She absolutely will work to increase her personal wealth and standing as president, She will absolutely back military that some of you won't agree with. But she'll do this within the law, and with American interests in mind. She will also champion causes you probably do agree with. She will NOT, though incompetence or deliberate action, do anything that she thinks will harm our country or its citizens. She is dedicated to improving the lives of women, children, and the poor. She is dedicated to improving our schools and reducing student debt. She is dedicated to infrastructure and technology.

And she can be reasoned with. She can change her mind. She can adapt. No candidate is perfect, but, quite honestly, the Democratic platform she's sworn to uphold is the closest it's ever come to my own belief system, and it's pretty amazing how far it's come in just the last decade. I'm optimistic.

I haven't talked about Trump much, because I damn well shouldn't have to. He's the least qualified main-party candidate we've seen in our lifetimes. He's probably a child rapist, absolutely a harasser, a bigot, a liar, an incompetent buffoon with a short fuse and no foresight renowned for losing money and scamming Americans, and in every other way absolutely unqualified for office.

He is also a danger. A danger to democracy. A danger to our country's economic stability and a danger to our physical safety. He'll have nukes, for fuck's sake. He's like a spoiled 12-year-old with NUKES. I can't even express how crazy this is. He couldn't get hired as a Walmart with his record. and we're gonna hand him some NUKES. The he wants to USE.

Stop him. The only way to stop him is to vote Clinton. Join me.

Three pleas pre-election: part one

This is my first plea: people thinking about just Not Voting.

The phrase I've used for this negative, toxic campaign season is "Unrelenting nightmare." Maybe you just want it to go away, want it to be over, want to never have to think about it again. Trust me, I get it.

But you can't really sit this one out, guys. If you don't care about the election and think the outcome won't affect you, you probably either have enough privilege with your gender/skin color/economic status to be insulated from recessions and bigotry, or you're willfully ignorant of the stakes.

Most Americans work a lot. We have jobs and part time jobs and side hustles, other people to take care of, and other obligations. It's not possible for your average American to follow every twist and turn of every election and I don't ask anyone to do so.

But think about it TODAY, because a Trump presidency would be a catastrophe, and if you don't think it would affect YOU, think abut how it would affect the millions of Black and Brown and Latinx citizens, the millions of immigrants, the millions of LGBT people, the millions of Muslims and Jews, and the millions of women that Trump threatens, dismisses, insults, or abuses. Think about the shiny new hate groups spawning in his wake. If you think the last year has been toxic, I want you to imagine an unprepared, ignorant president Trump, who's never let himself be constrained by "laws" or "morals" or "human decency," playing with the country.

And then think about how the markets dive every time he pulls a lead in the polls. Think about the fact that economists have, across the board, accused his economic plan as being disastrous. Think about the fact that he thinks we should use nukes on our enemies, which would trigger a freaking nuclear war. Think about the fact that he has already alienated world leaders and promised to break our long-standing agreements and treaties with them. We live in a global world, and the balance of peace and prosperity is very tenuous. If any of these blocs chose to dump the US as a partner, hike tariffs, or break alliances, we are screwed. And when we're screwed, we bring the whole world down with us, sparking global recessions, wars, and economic insecurity.

Voting is a tiny little pain in the ass. If you'e in WI, which many of you are, early voting means there probably won't be too much of a line. You can register at the polls. The polls are open all day and are probably pretty close to your house. So, maybe 20 minutes total to get there, register, vote, get home. Don't know who to vote for? You can preview your ballot online. Once you've ticked "Clinton," which'll negate one Trump vote out there, write in Mickey Mouse for all I care.

I'm not asking for anything above the bare minimum of a Clinton vote to keep Trump out of office.

So do the bare minimum. I'm begging you.

In response to Bill Clinton and Donald Trump's rape allegations

TW: This Whole Damn Week

tl;dr spoiler: WE DON'T GET TO PICK WHICH VICTIMS WE BELIEVE BY WHICH CANDIDATE THEY SUPPORT

Liberal friends: you know what's not cool? Posting a link to allegations of rape against Trump and then trying to demonize Juanita Broaddrick et al for allegations against Bill Clinton. You're not forensic investigators. You're not gonna blow holes in decades-old rape cases, and you damn well shouldn't be trying.

Conservative friends: you know what's not cool? Defending Trump's harassment and rape and misogyny by pointing out someone else did those things, too. That doesn't make it ok! Two people doing rape just means both people are horrible! Also unfair: making Hillary culpable for all of her husband's sins. She certainly has things to answer for, but she didn't rape anybody. Keep that in mind, please.

Oh, are there inconsistencies in someone's story? Yeah, I bet if you ask me about my rape you'll find inconsistencies in mine; it was years ago and, you know, traumatic. Do these accusers have something to gain? Maybe, but I can tell you as a fact that they probably suffer a lot more than they gain by making up stories like this; look at the way all these women have been dragged through the mud for decades. Rape has a false reporting rate of about 4%, just like most other crimes. While it's possible these stories are made up, it's very very very likely that they are not, especially when so many women have come forward.

Listen up, y'all: WE DON'T GET TO PICK WHICH VICTIMS WE BELIEVE BY WHICH CANDIDATE THEY SUPPORT. If you want justice for rape victims (and you damn well better) then you need to accept that even someone you support might be a horrible person, even if this fact makes your decision making suddenly very morally fraught and messy.

So if you are outraged about Trump or Bill Clinton, that's good! It's good to be outraged about people who molest, demean, assault, and otherwise abuse others. But don't act like your opponent's accusers are all telling the truth while the ones accusing your team are all liars. Every victim deserves justice.

In response to the Orlando nightclub shooting

This is to my friends and family who think, for religious reasons, that homosexuality (and other letters of the LGBTQ-etc alphabet) is wrong.

This is an honest request for your help, and maybe not in the way you might initially think.

You are good and important and compassionate people who genuinely care about others. You would never condone hatred or violence. It's great! I like you all a bunch.

I'm asking you for help because you have something I don't have: devout religious beliefs.

There are people I can't reach, because I'm a big ol' bisexual feminist atheist genderqueer whathaveyou. And those are exactly the people we need to reach, and they'll only listen to people with enough God Cred, as it were.

This is what I want you to do:

I want you decry these acts. Make it clear you stand against perpetrators of violence. Most of you do this anyway, and I appreciate it. It helps. It shows us there is safety and comfort and love.

I want you to help police your communities. I want you to stand up to bullies. I want you to remind others that no sin is above others, that we are not the final judges, that we are all people and all loved.

I want you to change the language that's used to describe us. One thing I hear a lot is that homosexuality is "unnatural" or "sickening" or "gross." This language dehumanizes us, and is also wrong and disingenuous. You know what's gross? Sex, in general. It's all fluids and organs and stuff. Describing anyone's sex acts is gonna be off-putting to a general audience. If you catch people doing this, stop them. No one needs to talk about my genitals, ever. I am a person. I am not gross. My body does some gross stuff (come on, digestion) but I am still a person.

I want you to explain consent to others who equate homosexuality with crimes of non-consent like rape or pedophilia or bestiality (I mean, I want you to explain consent to everyone, because rape culture is a thing, but that's another essay). I want you to help spread the word that we gay folk don't prey on people, we don't try and convert children into gayness, we aren't attracted to children, that we only have sex with other people who are legally able and willing to give consent. And yeah, LGBTQ people can be sex offenders just like straight people can, but they aren't any more representative of us than a straight sex offender would be representative of you, and if an LGBTQ person does prey on someone we want them to go to prison just like a straight person would.

I want you to consider the rationale behind your beliefs. You can say "I think homosexuality is wrong because my religious tells me so" or "homosexuality is wrong because men and women have different needs" and I'll fight you on it, but I'll still respect you. But if you find your reasons are based in knee-jerk disgust or hateful rhetoric, then reconsider what you believe and why you believe it.

I want you to listen to gay and bi and trans and asexual and non-binary voices, seek out LGBTQ people in your religions and ask them about their experiences, learn some of the terms we use, and be ready and willing to help them and love them.

I want you to help reach the people who use your beliefs as fuel for their violence. Don't let them define your religion.

Help us.

Manifesto

INTROIT
Any time I post a colossal essay on a social media, I get messages from supportive buddies which go roughly as follows:

"Hey, you write good stuff. Have you considered doing this for money?"

And then I laugh heartily, because, dear friends, there's no money in writing*. If I could make money off Facebook shares I'd be rich enough to have fewer things to rant about, but turns out "my post went viral once" doesn't cut it on a Paid Writer resume**.

However, there is value in consolidating and archiving this kind of thing somewhere, and that's what I'm going to do. Most things I write are responses to current events, so their shelf-life is perhaps not as long as other essays, but the world moves in cycles and irrelevant things gain new relevance.

KYRIE ET PAX
All politics is local, all politics is global, so if I'm writing about anything it's probably political. I don't see this as a negative thing. The nuanced webs of money, power, and law dictate where we start our lives and shape what we can become, and knowledge of those systems is essential if we intend to change those systems.

Since I'll be writing about politics things in a divisive world, there's gonna be some friction. I wanna be all like, "if you don't like it, fuck off," but I like to think my ideas are defensible. That having been said, I will not defend them if I'm busy. I have a day job, night classes, and active involvement in various organizations, and all the normal things adults do. I don't get paid to moderate comments or respond to 'em, so I usually won't.

But if you disagree with me or others, PLEASE, please, be kind and civil. This isn't PC babying, this is basic human decency. We're all busy, tired, stressed people. Be patient with each other. That's the minimum required by the social contract and, in this small space, I'm its enforcer.

MEA CULPA
I swear a lot. I use a broad range of writing styles that convey emotion, urgency, and vernacular. I overuse semicolons in an attempt to harness the cadence of spoken language. My spelling is garbage and my typing is also garbage. I blaspheme constantly, against most things, occasionally by accident but usually on purpose. I'm not Catholic but I used Church Latin in this post because a) I took Latin in college for some reason and it's a shame to waste it and b) it lends things an air of Portent and hot dang do I love Portent.

* I've written other people's college essays for money. Side hustles aren't usually exactly legal, but that's the whole thing. You do 'em when you can't make legal money. Sorry, and thank god for the Statute of Limitations.

** "Committed academic fraud" also not good on a resume.

LIBRA NOS A MALO
We're strong when we're united. Fight with me.

Amen.

- kyp belligerent