Personally I feel black...and like the taste of pink.

Can I get a Zion, whoop, whooop?!While many Americans may claim not to practice religion or order their lives according to it - or swear by atheism/spiritualism - they nevertheless fail to realize, outside of Christmas and school prayers, just how much Christian teachings have influenced American daily life from hospital care and city planning to dating rituals, holidays, or the shunning of male frontal nudity.
At any time of the day individuals stand and call up to passers-by begging and pleading for alms to be thrown their wayThese people, homeless, forsaken, dirty, rejected, live under the bridges in Tijuana's river. Like trolls. I suppose water once flowed through it (or maybe it still does during specific times of the year) but I've only ever seen a steady stream of waste churn through. In fact, the walls on either sides are decorated with large murals so I guess artists wouldn't do that if they expected the work to be covered by shit water. And that's about as pretty as it gets. The other, living images are a painful eye-sore.
I guess artists wouldn't do that if they expected the work to be covered by shit waterThese rejects - because it's a fact: Mexico doesn't want them either - establish tent cities along the river. At night they start camp fires which stink up the air.
Why isn't the Google homepage flipping the bird to hunger, poverty, strife -- in solidarity with the oppressed Brazilians?Today the World Cup is upon us -- ushered in by weeks of protest and Brazilian unrest. The disenfranchised citizens are angry about lack of food, jobs, upward mobility, equal opportunities, unsafe neighborhoods/gang violence, police corruption. In short, human rights. One noticeable exception to their laundry list of angst? Gayness!