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Scary story time!!! *WARNING- i start swearing near the end*

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So, I've not been very active in the last little while because of a gigantic Social Studies project that has been dumped in my lap, and because I'm an idiot, I'm doing on my own. Seriously. Its due tueseday, ive been working om it all of the past week, and I worked on it for 10 hours SRTRAIGHT yestersay and today, and i'm still not done - it's reasearcing the cold war. Very interesting stuff, but still. SO MUCH STRESS.

Anyway, necause i can't do homework for a full day with no break, I've been researching dog fighting in my spare time. I am warning you here and now, people, NEVER do this. You kill a lot of brain cells. Dan Brown, the author of the Da Vinci Code, is one of my personal heros because of the intricate detail he puts into his books, and i aim for the same releitve thing ith TaN, but unfortunatly that forces me to stick my head into the dark, bloody world of dog fighting. I've been avoiding some of the more grusome stuff, but i recently stumbled across a Q and A forum where someone asked the question "What's the best breed of fighting dog?" I need ideas on breeds for characters, so i thought 'well, this'll be a good place to look', and i spent some time reading through the answers. Oh dear God. The horror of the stupidity of man. Of course, a lot of them were like you'd expect - "hahahah lolololol pitbull man, its leik da gr8tst thing eva, mah pitbull kills otha dogs hahaha' but some of them were genuinely frightening. There were a couple people on there that sounded like my coach talking about selecting horses - they were going into a great deal of detail on genetics and factors that influence a dogs 'gameness', training emphais, and factors such as size that gave a dog advantage. I mean, it was great info for me writing this comic, but to think that there are people who actually put this much thought, effort, and money into dog fighting? Whoa. I mean, these people would have sounded respectable had they been talking about anything else! I honestly thought that dog fighting was a 'sport' belonging to gangsters and idiots looking to make a couple bucks...i did not think that this kind of shit was a factor. Again, it awesome for TaN, but in real life?I suddenly feel very nervous. (For anyone who wants to be scared too, this is the link to the forum. [link] )

Another thing that has recently cought my attention due to my extensive research of the Cold War - The southern states in 60's with the Civil Rights Movement. If you live there right now, i'm not meaning to insult you, but this is just F*CKING STUPID!!!!! Take the Freedom Rides in 1961. A mob firebombed the bus, and held the doors shut so that the protesters couldnt get out, and the surviving protesters were the ones who got arrested?!?!?! IT'S FUCKING ATTEMPTED MURDER, PEOPLE!!!! Not only that, but the KKK. I mean, it would be scary enough on it's own, but the fact that cops turned a blind eye or even HELPED kill people?!?! There's a difference between being racist and being a freaking caveman!!!!! If it was just the KKK on it's own, id still be angry, but the COPS?! It's total chaos!! Like i said, there's a line!!! I actually ranted about this to my cat this morning. Hey, she looked like she was listening. Sorry, i just find it a little freaky that pople could so that kind of shit without any resraint.

So yeah. People are absolutly, completly, and totally stupid. I wish i could use a stronger descrptive word, but i can't think of any bad enough at this moment.

have a nice day.

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