A few years ago there was a hot slogan aimed at kids who found themselves facing the temptations of drugs, alcohol, sex, peer pressure of all kinds.

"Just Say No!"

Easier said than done . . . as anyone who has longed to fit in, be popular, or just avoid making a scene can tell you. Sometimes to just say no is the hardest thing there is to say. It's so much easier to go along to get along, to blend in with the crowd, to avoid that super-sensitive social radar that picks-up and picks-on anyone who is different.

Learning to say no . . . no to bullies, no to common cruelties, no to demeaning social conventions, no to all-consuming appetites . . . no has never been an easy word to learn. How are you at speaking up and speaking out against the mass mind-set - whether the mass consists of the popu…