Just something I wrote for an assignment I had back in high school.. I quite like it 
My Friends! Stand firm, as today, like every other day, we are forced to prematurely tear ourselves from the comforting womb of sleep, still unready to face the harsh world. Steel yourselves against another day of bleary eyes, wit and mind fogged by an eternal lack of sleep, a day of playing catch up with the world around you. Curse the schedule that, while the sky is still dark and the sane world dead to it, forces us from our beds every day! But do not resign yourself to this fate! Because, Friends, this fate does not have to be ours! Will we, just because of our youth, allow ourselves to be pushed around and denied our fundamental right to blessed sleep? No! We must demand that the school day be pushed back, that we be allowed a full ration of rest each night, that we may live fully. Though some may say sleep when dead; I say sleep to live!
With a good night’s rest we can be more alert, more interested, more quick, and more intelligent. We shall be remade! And indeed, even the schools will benefit. What is holding them back from making this vital change? Only stubbornness, a bias towards tradition and the way things have always been done, an illegitimate fear of sticking their necks out and making a change. Science has proven our wish valid. The research is all there, the data is all there; only the schools are not there! The school who would take the necessary bold steps, make the required moves, it could win the label of a forward moving and clear thinking institution, it could capture the stage in the dance for new students. The decision to push back the school day to allow for a proper night’s rest can only be said to be logical, profitable, and invaluable to both us and schools. We must fight for our right to sleep! This is the only decision we can make, because a brighter future is what we fight for, and that is the only acceptable future. My Friends! Is this, a life of clouded minds, a life of doubtful quality and validity, how it was meant to be? Together let us right this wrong and bring about a truly welcome dawn.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39368869/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa
This is a response to the assertion that the Jewish people have the right to Israel by decree of God.
In today’s pluralistic world “God Said So” is never a valid reason. A character in a book that only some people read and the majority of the world does not follow does not have the right to give land to people, to judge people, to control people. However, while the Jewish people have no inherent right to Israel, the story of modern Israel is one of a chain of human rights horrors, from Hitler’s Holocaust to the creation of Israel to the condition of the Palestinians today; we cannot add another one to that list by relocating the Israelis once again. Rather, both sides must work together to live together, whether as a unified, secular single state or in a two-state solution, it must be a relationship built upon mutual respect and humanity. May HUMAN reason and logic and compassion prevail over blind zealotry, fear mongering, and politiking. Amen.
Why? Why do I Blog? Because the majority of the internet is filled by the comments of ignorant, blind nobodies who belittle those who seem to oppose them to make themselves feel powerful and important. Because I, like them, am insecure, and when I see comments I disagree with, I cannot help but want to challenge their beliefs and make them see my side, if only to validate my years of liberal education and an intellect I cannot help but believe is rather good.
But, thinking about it now, I also blog because I am curious. I blog because I am interested in why people believe the ludicrous things they do. Far too many of us, myself included, live in a bubble of shared experiences, ideas, and feelings, a bubble that is hard to pop and one that we often don’t want to pop. However, it gets lonely in that bubble, so pop it I shall try to. By learning about the worlds of others, we can come to understand them and their beliefs better, and through this understanding learn even more about ourselves and our own world. The broader our own understanding the better decisions we can personally make and the better we can counter the misled arguments and opinions of others. The more we know and understand, the more we foster our own independence in thought and action.
So, now that I’ve thought about it, while I may blog in part from insecurity and a desire to decimate you in debate, I do it more out of genuine curiosity, out of a wish to both learn about you and your opinions and tell you about mine. I will tell you what and why I think, and all I ask is that you return the favor – please do comment and tell me what you think and equally important why you think so, and let us learn from each other.
