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Okay, that was a great contest and thanks to everyone who submitted an entry or voted. After all the prop talk we were due for a little silliness and you all pulled it off with flying colors!
After tabulating the votes that were posted to the blog along with a few that were submitted via email, [...]

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After untold hours a few minutes spent pouring over skimming through the contest entries, I’ve chosen my Top Five list which could have easily been a Top Eight list. You done good!
Now it’s up to the voting public to decide who will be our two winners. Just vote for one of the slogans listed below [...]

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What do you need to bake 40 gingerbread houses? How about 3 bags flour, 2 bags sugar, 15 jars molasses, 12 pounds of butter, 3 dozen egg yolks, salt, cinnamon, cloves, ginger, 4 cans of spray vegetable oil, a dozen gingerbread house molds, and a constant flow of espresso! I started this morning at 10:00 [...]

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After a month of volunteering to defeat Prop 8, grieving the passage of Prop 8, and of active engagement in protesting Prop 8, it’s time to bring life back in balance. The push for equality will continue on but so must the rest of life, and I don’t know about you but I forgot that [...]

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Okay, that was intense! Intensely wonderful, hopeful and exciting that is. While I haven’t yet seen an official count as to the number of folks who showed up at San Francisco City Hall this morning for Join the Impact, I’m going to make a guesstimate that it was in the vicinity of three kagillion. Aside [...]

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Tomorrow is a National Day of Protest and you are invited to Join the Impact!
Why Should We Protest?

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything that smacks of discrimination or slander. – Mary McLeod Bethune (educator and advisor to FDR on the [...]

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I know this is just about everywhere on the internet but for the one of you who may not have heard this coming Saturday, November 15, at 10:30 a.m. (PST) will be the mega-awesome Join the Impact event. Gays and lesbians along with just about every justice-loving soul who walks or rolls will be gathering [...]

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Remember when I said I was done blogging about Prop 8?
I take it back.
Sorry.
In the two weeks prior to the election I participated in four visibility actions on various street corners near our home. On election day I stood 120 feet from a polling place located inside a church next door to our home for [...]

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I know it was only yesterday I announced I was done blogging about Prop 8. I meant it when I said it but that was before I saw this video which requires that I now make a public service announcement.
Keith Olbermann is my new boyfriend.
Tomorrow “The Ragamuffin Gospel” but for tonight, Keith [...]

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