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Fr. John-Mark Gilhousen (right) and fiancé, David Borba at Cannon Beach, Oregon, the week of their engagement, August, 2015. I’ve not been very active on DK for a very long time, but I still have a...
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I had not planned to move from my cozy little cottage to my mother's home to care for her on a live-in basis. A fall had resulted in her sustaining a particularly nasty fracture necessitating a...
View ArticleKosAbility: Could 10 million more voters make a difference? Well, duh!
Anyone who reads these orange trimmed pages with any regularity has to be aware of the frontal assault on democracy for partisan purposes well underway by the GOP in the form of voter suppression in...
View ArticleCommunity Fundraiser: Let's Finish what we Started (Scottie Thomaston Goes to...
DailyKos. This place is freaking amazing. Kossacks just plain get it. "Yes we can" isn't just a slogan from the last election cycle. We can and do walk and chew gum. We work on campaigns, keep...
View ArticleKosAbility: The ADA - Milestone not Destination
Twenty-two years ago, historic and liberating legislation, comprehensive in scope, was enacted as the culmination of decades of work by activists, politicians, and professionals. Clearly a bipartisan...
View ArticleKosAbility: Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's Off to Work...
Our culture puts immense value on individual independence and work. And, I think this is more than just a significant vestige of the puritan work ethic.One of the first questions I was asked when...
View ArticleNN13 Registration: At Auction! (Update: Sold! Thanks to all!)
I did the early registration thing, and was really excited about joining y'all for my first Netroots Nation next month in San Jose. Ain't gonna happen. Since registering, I got assigned to direct a...
View ArticleExxonMobil Sticks with LGBT Discrimination (+ some alternatives)
For the fifteenth time in as many years, shareholders of Exxon Mobil Corporation voted down a proposed resolution which would have added "sexual orientation" to their non-discrimination policy....
View ArticleI remember Anita Bryant's "Save Our Children Campaign" too well.
I'd like to think that HLN's Nancy "I've Never Met a Defendant I didn't Loathe" Grace as the epitome of irrelevancy. I never watched her much, and not at all since the days when her current network...
View ArticleWe Can't Keep Silent
The United Nations General Assembly is poised to elect tomorrow, Wednesday, as its President the Ugandan Foreign Minister, Sam Kutesa, an outspoken defender of his country's draconian anti-gay laws....
View ArticleSorry, Gov. Perry, Deflection Ain't Gonna Get that Stink Off
Poor, poor, Rick Perry. He admits he "stepped in it" when he compared members of the LGBT community to alcoholics the same week his state's Party adopted an odious anti-gay plank endorsing "reparative...
View ArticleMy Mother: A Slightly Premature Eulogy
Perhaps the only relationship in my life more complicated than the one with my mother was that which my father and I enjoyed endured. For years, and until my father's death, I was completely estranged...
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Personal Announcement
Fr. John-Mark Gilhousen (right) and fiancé, David Borba at Cannon Beach, Oregon, the week of their engagement, August, 2015.I’ve not been very active on DK for a very long time, but I still have a lot...
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