From my beloved friend, The Bloggess, for those of you who click #9, “Oh, Craigslist, you never stop amazing me,” and wonder if this is real and/or common, the answer is YES!!!!! The number of creeps preying on the gay community in a state of delusional full denial is legion. Just ask Ken Mehlman. P.S. …
Monthly Archives: September 2010
I just spoke with Maggie
Yesterday Maggie had trouble breathing so she was put on oxygen — not a mask, the tubes around the ears and a cannula in her nose. She also began to hallucinate and talked about cleaning gutters — a job I never saw her do. Her sister just told me that Maggie didn’t sleep all night, …
Maggie is back at the Markey Cancer Center
Awesome Nephew called me late Friday afternoon to relay a message from Maggie’s sister that she had gotten a good report on the results of her chemo and was on her way back to her brother’s home. However, shortly after I got home from the FreedomWorks 9/12 March and Rally in Washington, D.C., this evening, …
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Judge rules ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ military ban on gays unconstitutional
Log Cabin Republicans, a 19,000-member gay and lesbian organization, won an important victory for lesbian and gay equality yesterday when a California judge ruled the military’s ban on gays serving in the military known as “don’t ask, don’t tell” is unconstitutional. The Associated Press reports: RIVERSIDE, Calif. — A federal judge in Southern California has …
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A Conservative Lesbian blegs for donations to attend Blogcon and the 9/12 March
I hope some of my dear gentle readers will be willing and able to donate a total of at least $400 to assist me with my expenses to attend Blogcon in Washington, D.C., from today through Sept. 11 and the 9/12 March on Sunday. I’m really only asking for help with paying Awesome Nephew for …
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Maggie update 9-8-10
My brother flew out to visit Maggie on Sunday and Monday, which cheered her enormously. Maggie received a chemotherapy treatment today and will see the oncologist again on Friday. She sounded stronger today. However, she has very little appetite and is too weak to walk. A sister and brother are staying with her. She is …
Right Network debuts today and includes a gardening column by A Conservative Lesbian
Today is the debut of Right Network, which is a project by Kelsey Grammer, best known as the title character in the TV comedy, “Frasier.” I’ve been recruited to write a gardening column — my first one is headlined, “Gardening: The Delectable Addiction.” (I was tardy with my photos, so the one there is not …
Maggie Byrd, cancer and the decision between hospice and acute care
When Maggie was diagnosed with advanced lymphoma about two weeks ago, she was told she had between three and 22 weeks to live. She told her doctors she wanted to live. They came up with a chemotherapy treatment strategy that shrank the tumor. She was discharged. The treatment program included an injection of heparin, a …
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Business Insider’s cool solution for bloggers and copyright infringement
I clicked a story from Instapundit on bedbugs and noticed that the source of the story, Business Insider, has an extremely useful array of icons under each story. The one titled, “Embed,” intrigued me because we bloggers are accustomed to embedding videos from YouTube, cat photos from icanhazcheeseburger.com and PDFs from Scribd, but embedding a …
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UPDATED: Maggie Byrd update, ‘O Happy Day’
Sleep deprivation right after finding out that Maggie Byrd has lymphoma made me especially vulnerable to getting overshadowed by fear and sadness and I forgot some important things: What you put your attention on grows stronger. You are alive until you are dead. While you are alive, make the effort — see #1 above — …
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