First, let me just say up front I AM INDEED, a SORE LOSER when the odds don’t seem to have been even going in. I had no huge expectation going in as the winner in the Best New Blog category since I launched at the end of November 2009 giving me hardly three months to collect a following. I have to say it was a shock that I made it into the final three. Once there, however, I came to believe my competition would be other singular blogs as the word in the award is BLOG and that some voters might actually review each if they were not familiar with them before making their pick.
I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.
Even lesbians have shitty days. I have described the absolute worst day of my life.
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Lectori Salutem! or L.S. (Greetings to the Reader!)
I talked at length about the hate in the heart of one man with a massive audience, Pat Robertson, but it has seeped down into my daily life today just as it did a few years ago in Austin, Texas as you will here in an upcoming blog.
Today was [...]
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I was reading an article on the election in Maine today, and although it was a fairly positive article in regards to the “No on 1″ campaign, there were a couple sentences that when I read them… they stung. Like a slap in the face. Not gonna lie, I started crying. While the comment itself [...]
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I inundate this blog with sex toy reviews, and have been doing so for almost a year. I can hardly believe it’s been that long. In addition to talking about sex toys all the time on here, I’m here now to say that currently, that’s also what I do all day long at work. I [...]
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I can’t sleep tonight. I needed an outlet to get the thoughts out of my head… so I signed up and here it is.
I recently went on a vacation with my wife for our one year wedding anniversary. The day we came back my mother fell, shattered her knee cap and our whole vacation vanished [...]
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Today I stand here, looking back at the past 10-11 months of my life.
I have learnt to trust, believe, love and most of all feel pain. I trusted you, to always be there for me, to protect my deepest and intimate thoughts. Yet I realize all I was to you was someone to pass your [...]
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From time to time the wife and I receive emails from the all powerful *eyeroll* Joe Solmonese and the HRC. Tonight the wife got an email about a nationwide special that the American Family Association produced called Speechless: Silencing Christians. I will go on and say that I have not read the book they reference [...]
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Our freedom of speech is an all important thing, especially in this day and age, but it seems that some groups want it to apply only to them and not to others. You see this everywhere, between church and state, liberal and conservative, gay and straight, name two groups and I guarantee that they believe [...]
