WW, why?

joined weight watchers again, third week in, no weight loss, why? because i can't curb my damn cravings. how does one stop that 2 p.m. snack time/chocolate time craving? GRRRR!

political correctness = 1984?

i'm kind of so sick of hearing about all everything that everyone does and people paying the consequences for things they do in their PERSONAL time. it feels like no one has any right to privacy anymore. between, email, texts, blogs and celebrity mags, everyone leaves a trail and anyone can have access to it. where do you draw the line? it's no wonder children don't see it as an issue to take a provocative picture of themselves and post it on twitter or fb or send it to a friend, they don't understand the concept of self censoring. if you recall the tattlers in the book 1984 wasn't exactly "big brother" but it was children against their parents and neighbor against neighbor. i don't think that political correctness is that far of a slippery slope from 1984. if you don't know what i'm referencing or why i'm off on this tangent, i'm talking about the man that was fired from his teaching job for posting a nude picture of himself to an adult website. he didn't use his name, or talk about the school he worked at and he was not targeting or looking for a child to reach out to him - this was an adult only website. yet he was fired from this for lack of moral conduct. the definition of morality is a lot like the definition of obscenity - they mean different things to different people and how does one impose their belief of these things on another without some sort of force? and where does it stop? it's not enough that the department of homeland security has slowly began stripping away the rights of americans under the pretense of "security and safety" but americans are walking around like sheeple, going about their daily lives like nothing is wrong and nothing has changed. we should be ashamed of ourselves. my gut says that this guy was reported because he is gay and the fear that gay men and women are contagious is still so widespread. the fact that you can loose your job for something you do outside of the confines of your place of work is just astounding to me. this goes for political leaders as well, do i find it slightly humorous when an outspoken anti-gay politician is caught with his "hand in the cookie jar" - yes i do! - but i find the fact that they always resign a sign of weakness and a sign that what they are/got caught doing embarrasses them and the only thing they can do is retreat from it. when that is not the case at all, if they could stand up for themselves and the cause i think they'd find that most people in general would respect them and (i'm not speaking for myself here, but my gay friends) i think that everyone who is gay can identify with the fear that comes with "coming out" or "being found out" and rather than shying away from it, face it with courage and dignity and you will find people will treat you as such. okay, i'm off the soap box now.