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Who should help penniless Americans?

I work on one of the most power-filled, money-lined streets in the United States. Every day I’m sure I walk past power brokers, millionaires and “important people”. I’m assuming I do, but they don’t wear signs. Most of them have pretty nice clothes, so I take that as a kind of a clue. I also walk past an array of the saddest scenes, people who portray the absolute depth of human hopelessness. I just came back from getting my overpriced coffee. I admit I don’t need to spend four dollars for caffeine and writing about this makes me realise that habit should probably stop and I should give more to charity. On my stroll, I noticed the two “occupy kids”, as I call them, were up and about. They are the two twenty-something white kids who have parked their un-showered but I imagine “revolutionary” souls in front of our building. They ask for cigarettes. At the end of the block was an older white woman who had wrapped herself in a ball, her head covered by a stained and ripped overcoat. I ha

The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana: Part I: Introductory: Chapter V. About Classes of Women Fit and Unfit for Congress with the Citizen, and of Friends, and Messengers

  But these four latter kinds of Nayikas do not differ much from the first four kinds of them, as there is no separate object in resorting to them. Therefore, Vatsyayana is of opinion that there are only four kinds of Nayikas, i.e. the maid, the twice-married woman, the public woman, and the woman resorted to for a special purpose. The following women are not to be enjoyed: A leper A lunatic A woman turned out of caste A woman who reveals secrets A woman who publicly expresses desire for sexual intercourse A woman who is extremely white A woman who is extremely black A bad-smelling woman A woman who is a near relation A woman who is a female friend A woman who leads the life of an ascetic And, lastly the wife of a relation, of a friend, of a learned Brahman, and of the king The followers of Babhravya say that any woman who has been enjoyed by five men is a fit and proper person to be enjoyed. But Gonikaputra is of opinion that even when this is the case, the wives of a