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Although I"m a bit anti-routine and consider myself whatever the oppossite of an addcitive personality is, I tend to occassionaly find myself in daily routines. I say plurl b/c they do change, well at least I just have a few I change out intermitantly to obstain from boredom. You get the jist. Any-who, lately I've been carpooling a bit with some fam and I get dropped off and walk across the street to my building and there is a boy there. Sometimes he's sitting and sometimes he's standing, most of the time he has some sort of laminated sign around his neck. He's selling papers, I am not sure quite what the sign says, youth program or something. Originally I thought he might be homeless (he was sitting on the sidewalk). Today he was shouting out his papers for sale, 50 cents! People just walk by him like they walk by everyone else, not looking, not listening. Just like any other Street Sense pusher or Green Peace talker, or Homeless begger.
I started to wonder what sort of youth program this actually is. This kid had to be like 8 or 9. What good is putting him on the street peddling papers doing him? Are we learning the art of rejections and being ignored? I don't think I could think of a worse thing to do than try to haulk shit during morning rush hour to the vagrant parade of DC commuters outside a metro stop. What is he suppossed to be learning anyways? Who is watching him and preventing him from being sold into a prositution ring and shipped to Thailand? I'm just wondering.

While we're on the subject of news, I read in my Express that good old China is going to be stretching it's democratic muscles and allowing dissent (protestors), but only in designated 'zones' or areas that are far away from the main sport venues. Let's stop and evaluate this little tid-bit. Protestors, the people that are so displeased with whatever they go against any and all authority to convey their messege. You're telling these government hating people they can only do their little protesting in certain zones? I think you're missing the whole point of protesting here China. That's not really how our free-speech thing works. They say what they want, WHERE they want, when they want, and guess what? It'll be at the friggin Main Gates and not the little zone in the back alley you've so hospitably set aside for them. Why don't you mandate the size of their protesting signs while you're at it. Ahahaha, that is just too funny.