Having lunch with a friend one day, I noticed a peculiar behavior; he was very, very kind to everyone we encountered in the restaurant. As we were eating, I asked him why was so nice to them but often times nasty to those of us closest to him. He said to me, "Dee, that's the human enigma. We as a human race just tend to be kinder to strangers than we are to our loved ones." I thought that to be a very strange comment and as I got to know that person better, I realized it was just a lot of bullshit coming out of the mouth of a bullshit artist. Sure, it makes us feel better to be kind to people, but for the most part, the human race is kinder to her loved ones, I'm sure. The human enigma is not that most people are kinder to strangers than their own loved ones, that's just a characteristic trait of narcissism.
Here is what I find the human enigma to be: We spend our whole lives looking for the kind of love that will encapsulate us, hold us close, never leave us, however, when we don't experience that love, we tend to believe we didn't deserve it in the first place, so the next time we enter into a relationship, while we may be looking for love- we're probably setting ourselves up to fail simply for the fact that that's what's happened in the past and, hey, you might as well be prepared for what's about to come. 
You never really find that bliss until you fall in love completely with the person who is completely in love with you. The funny thing -well, the not so funny thing is that we cannot attain that bliss while we're in relationships we set ourselves up to fail in. Only the bliss can make us feel worthy enough to be with the person we're supposed to be with rather than setting ourselves up to fail with people were not supposed to be with. The courage to be with your true love comes only from having been with your true love. Let me repeat that- the courage to be with your true love comes only from having been with your true love. 
That, my little pretties, is the human enigma.

By 
Deannalynn Arzola 

Trump's Racist Megaphone

I LOVE this.
Trump used his racist megaphone when he announced to the world that "Mexicans are rapists", he used it for Charlottesville, when he said there were "good people" defending "our beautiful statues" of leaders of the the confederacy.
He's a big mouth blowhard, with no governmental experience, who objectifies women, is hiding what appears to be money laundering activities for enemies of the state, applauds Vladimir Putin and white-supremiscists. He has kept not one major campaign promise; no infrastructure, no lowering of healthcare premiums, no border wall. The only thing he's "shaking up in Washington" is our confidence in our safety and our leaders. He has bullied North Korea's ticking time bomb into advancing an agenda of complete, nuclear annihilation of the West. He is an unqualified, mentally unstable, insecure narcissist. He's done nothing to advance clean air, global participation or America's leadership in the world. He's a nepotist with a very unhealthy view of his daughters; one he wishes he could date, the other he told his wife to abort.
My own politics aside, I've found not one redeeming quality within him, from the time he and his card member carrying kkk father were sued by the federal government for refusing to rent to Black folks, to his ridiculous reality t.v. show, to his abusive campaign to his failed attempt at everything presidential. Not one.