What's wrong with prostitution?
Full disclaimer: I am male, married, and do not cheat on my wife.My current marriage is my second, and I never cheated on my first wife. In between my first and second marriage I had one girlfriend,...
View ArticleOn this Easter, what freedom of religion means to me
Years ago I used to go to church. I used to believe in the god idea. I don't anymore and almost certainly never will again.I used to participate in the easter-egg and basket thing, even as an adult....
View ArticlePhew. Glad that's over.
This is going to be very brief. A typo appeared in a diary title today, and that diary made it to the recommended list before enough people noticed the glaring implication of the title. This is...
View ArticleLook out! The LHC is going to eat the Earth
Via the New York TimesThe world’s physicists have spent 14 years and $8 billion building the Large Hadron Collider, in which the colliding protons will recreate energies and conditions last seen a...
View ArticleDeclared. I'm giving up tobacco and
alcohol for at least five days, beginning April 29.This won't be that difficult, as I'm flying out to visit my mother for five days beginning April 29, and I'm going to be in her home and in a state...
View ArticleWhy This Straight Guy Supports Gay Marriage
The following diary is adapted from a guest editorial by me, under my real name (Forrest R. Prince), that was published in the Fresno Bee on February 25, 2000. At that time I was writing in opposition...
View ArticleRepent. Reclaim. Repair. Restore.
There's probably a few of you here that are not going to like this. I daresay there's probably a few of you here that are going to ask, what the ****, Forrest? We thought you were a wholly secular...
View ArticleI'm not ranting about your being pissed about mocking the rant, over.
I refer to Bob Johnson's excellent diary: I am really pissed that this other guy mocked this other guy's rant about the other guy's commentary .I offer this brief diary only because I wish to see...
View ArticleWhy I write at Daily Kos
(When I write at all).For many, many years now I have been an aspiring author. It all began back in high school in the late sixties when I took typing as an elective. Much to my own surprise I...
View ArticleAn Invitation to fellow Kossacks: I'd like to meet you. (Updated)
The High Sierra Music Festivalwill kick off in Quincy, California on Thursday, July 3, and run through Sunday, July 6. It is"...a world-class event, due in no small part to the caliber of our...
View ArticleThat was fun. Vive la resistance!
Yesterday I had the privilege of working my first shift as a volunteer for the Plumas-Sierra County Fair at the High Sierra Music Festival here in Quincy, CA. Our volunteer group is known as the...
View ArticleThank you Werewolf Prophet. I Accept.
First allow me to apologize for this very short diary. I realize its length is more appropriate for an open comment thread, but I am posting it as a diary instead in the hope that Werewolf Prophet...
View ArticleThere will be Children Again in the White House
Presuming Barack Obama gains the Presidency, and at this point in time that's a reasonable presumption, the First Family will once again include young children: two wonderful girls, aged ten and...
View ArticleWhat Part About Article VI Is Not Understandable?
Apparently to many people in this country, this part at least:The senators and representatives before mentioned, and the members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial...
View ArticleI know exactly how many houses I own.
One. It's a double-wide in a mobile home park. It's worth about $40,000. If I could sell it, less what we owe on it it's worth about $29,000. Because we live in a mobile home park and don't own the...
View ArticleYes, I've been into the brandy again.
And with all the P-what's-her-name, and all the McSame-his-name going on in my community here, can you blame me?I'm not saying you've driven me to drink. No, I take that on my own initiative.I am...
View ArticleShould I address my wife's church? Calif. Prop. 8
My wife received this email a couple of days ago. Because she uses my email address, I saw it first. Sad to say, I went livid.This email came from the address of one my wife's fellow Mormon church...
View ArticleTom McClintock blew me off tonight.
Tom McClintock, Republican candidate for U.S. House of Representatives, California Congressional District 4 (CA-04), appeared in person tonight in Quincy, California, to debate in a "town-hall" style...
View ArticleIn defense of Specialty Fasteners
Update: I just noticed the diary immediately below this one contained an identical word as was in my original diary title, so I have changed my title. My apologies to AuntieM and to Daily Kos for...
View ArticleZOMG!! I got tazered today.
No, not literally. Figuratively. And it was one of my very good friends who zapped me. Here's how he did it:My "n****r-hating" friend is leaning Obama.I can't believe I would be writing a diary with...
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