Insightful Rantings

An employer cannot dismiss, demote, refuse rightful promotion to, or in any other way negatively affect the institutional standing of an employee if that employee refuses to disclose the account credentials or information of any online account, including accounts belonging to that employee and accounts belonging to other employees. An employer cannot in any way utilize acquired account credentials or information, including usernames and passwords, except if they receive written consent of each employee whose account has been given. An employer cannot discriminate during the hiring and promotion processes based on whether or not an employee has disclosed account credentials or information, including usernames and passwords. This law would protect employees in several ways. Firstly, if they are not already in a job, but instead attempting to be hired into a workplace, then their social media activity, or the activity of any other online account, cannot be used to eliminate them as a pote...

The trees of the forest swayed wickedly, almost defiantly against the wind. When the wind blew more harshly for a time, they would respond, and soon the air would be thick with the sound of shifting and rustling of leaves. When it abated, they would settle, like old warriors finally put to rest. The sky, matching the ferocity of the wind, burned in anger. It was close to defeat, it seemed, for the horizon just above the trees was a bloody orange smear. The tops of the trees were yet bathed in a weak orange glow, revealing for once the yellows, reds, and purples of their dying leaves, but as black clouds encroached and smothered the sunlight, color retreated and vanished, replaced by browns, blacks, and greys. The rain began to fall. It was hesitant initially, but as the sunlight waned and the wind blew stronger, the rain became thick and heavy, and the ground it struck became mush, and the leaves of the trees shook the water to create a thick spray all in the air of the forest, and the...

Such is the fate of the broken, to act as an instrument of healing, to take the blows that others rightly should, to give out healing, to never receive it. We are broken banners and crumbling walls, lights in the dark and oases in the sand, the only holds of logic in this fallen world, and yet our very tenets are of the same base as any other philosophy. We are not so different from those we fight and those we save.