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Ladies, Take A CabToday I read a really amazing thing, so powerful that I had to take a few hours away from the computer to process it.  The article is titled "Confessions of a Date Rapist," and you can find it here, but I want to warn you ahead of time that it doesn't mince words.  I think it's important for people to read it, but I can understand why some people would prefer not to.

The article is written by a man who had an incident in his past, something he wasn't necessarily proud of, but he didn't really have a framework for it.  He later revisited it, after the awareness of date rape began to permeate our culture.  And he realized that he had, indeed, raped a woman when he was in college.
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The word “traffick” conjures images of bumper-to-bumper taxi cabs, women applying lipstick in smudgy lines, and men screaming obscenities at whatever unfortunate creatures that happen to be deadlocked in front of them. After the award-winning fillm Traffick hit theaters, the public may have become more aware of what the word can really mean. But human trafficking, the most heinous form of the word, is the third largest industry on earth, just behind the arms and drug trades. (Hopefully Liam Neeson's latest hit movie Taken will alert the public as Traffic previously did.) Read more