Recent content by Ami Ostman

Democratic Socialist society. Everyone would barter for goods and services and money would become useless. Gradually we would expand across the United States, creating a small country. At that point we would secede from the Union and become the Democratic Republic of Melange.

I don't say it very often just because I didn't grow up with it. It does carry the stigma of making the person using it seem of lesser intelligence, but my boyfriend uses it and he's very intelligent. It kinda changed my perspective on the word. Don't get me wrong though, I still make fun of him...

I was in the car with my friend and I told him at the last second to turn left instead of right. He didn't look before he went to turn and a semi-truck sped past us an inch in front of the front bumper of his car. Usually he drives very fast, but the fact that this was the one time he was...