Jaded With Jade

… on our Second Amendment. No doubt you all know about the tragic attack on the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. None of you will hear me say that this was not a horrific, gut-wrenching attempt. I will, however, say that trying to take away or reduce our right to bear arms is...
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Dear Readers, as I am sure most, if not all of you know, quite a few of my fellow Californians attempted to abolish the death penalty here in this state. Instead of putting monsters like the one I will tell you about in this column to death, they wanted to give them life sentences...
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Imagine this scenario: you get either a knock on the door or a phone call from a police officer, informing you that a family member has died at the hands of a drunk driver. That they, as cold as it may sound, has joined the ranks of the seemingly ever-increasing number of victims who...
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Yesterday I received a text from a friend of mine who has been reading my manuscript, The White Room. “I can’t believe you killed him!” he said, referring to one of the characters in the story. I explained to my friend the reasons behind the macabre act and why it had to be done…...
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The Contraceptive Charlie-Foxtrot      There’s something I’d like to ask certain members of the G.O.P: since when is it okay for you guys to start interfering with a woman’s healthcare needs and/or wants? Since when is it okay to dictate to a female what she can or cannot do to prevent a pregnancy...
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Bullying has been a problem in our school system and society for many, many years now. It seems that lately, this particular issue is getting worse and worse, judging from the amount of publicity it has been garnering. Sadly, nearly all of us have been a victim of bullying for one reason or another....
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I like to kill people and as of this moment, I have killed eleven of them. Not real ones of course, but fictional ones. I don’t know that I would enjoy murdering a real person. I don’t think I would be very good at it for one thing, and for another, it just seems...
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I fell. She didn’t mean to hurt me. I’m a bad child, it’s my fault my parents abuse me. Those bad things he said must be true. We’re married; he has a right to force me. He loves me and I know he wouldn’t have hit me unless I deserved it. He’ll change, he...
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Last month,in September 2011, Lawrence Russell Brewer was put to death in Texas for the 1998 brutal, racially motivated slaying of 49-year-old James Byrd, Jr. Brewer, along with two other White Supremacist idiots, beat Byrd, and urinated on him before tying him by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragging...
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Dear Readers, I want to sincerely apologize to you all for not having submitted a column in so long. I’ve had lots of… shall we say, crazy things happen to me; some issues I had to struggle through. I am very happy to say I’m back! I am looking forward to writing again, and...
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