Why Mitt Romney is Losing: Message Confusion Is The Problem
There's a lot of speculation out there about why Mitt Romney's performance in this race is sluggish at best in an election that according to David Brooks should be a "cakewalk" for the GOP. The...
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Cheers and Jeers: Awards Edition Plus Presidential Debate Edition
Welcome to Awards Edition Plus, your one-stop snark shop sitting in for Bill in Portland Maine and Cheers and Jeers. I hear Bill is taking the day off to clean out his closet. He opened the door and...
View ArticleThis Is A Troll Diary #2
First, there was this diary, in which the diarist tries to distinguish between legitimate concern and trollish concern. The diarist also asked for a soup recipe, and got one--the person who gave it to...
View ArticleSome Kossacks Are Thin Skinned
Some Kossacks are thin skinned when it comes to the Obama/Romney debate. I'm sorry to hear this, because while I really don't carry much water for the President when it comes to him as a candidate,...
View ArticleI Voted Early, You Should Too
I voted yesterday in Knox County, Maine, by absentee ballot. It's easy, it's painless, and if you're in a state where you can vote early, please do. I also found that no one was running for Probate...
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Why I Voted For President Obama and Why You Should, Too
I voted early, by absentee ballot, in Maine last week. I voted for the President. I think we should all vote for the President. I want to tell you why.I don't agree with the President on everything....
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Brothers and Sisters: All Saints, Great And Small
Some of us of various Christian denominations celebrated a transferred All Saints' Day today. Who are these saints? Who are these, like stars appearing?Well, they're us. I Sing a Song of the Saints...
View ArticleWhy Marriage Matters: Election Diary
My partner and I voted early, and we voted YES on Question 1 here in Maine. It's a no-brainer question, really, and very simply worded on the ballot:"Do you want to allow the State of Maine to issue...
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Election Night Libations: What's In Our Glass?
My partner GreenMountainBoy02 and I toyed with the idea of having an election night party, but it didn't pan out. So, we packed up and went up East to our place on The Rock to take in the election (we...
View ArticleUnofficial: Maine Votes For Marriage Equality
AP reports, according to MPBN, that Question 1 on marriage equality passes. Narrower than polls suggests but in the 52+ range for equality so just about the mirror image of the 2009 vote which reversed...
View ArticleMarriage Equality in Maine: A Tale of Two Bishops
Many of us who have worked hard on bringing marriage equality back to Maine are still celebrating the victory we achieved on November 6th. Unlike the 2009 defeat, the anti-equality folks spent far less...
View ArticleThis Is A Troll Diary No. 3: Why Pie?
It all started with pie, but I'm getting ahead of myself. This little series started with the original "This Is A Troll Diary" diary, and was followed recently by This Is A Troll Diary Number 2. I got...
View ArticleHolidays Chez Commonmass: QueerWASP Eye For The Birkenstock Set
We all do it. We throw parties, around the holidays, and then we want to know what we did "wrong". Since the cable television phenomenon of "Queer Eye For The Straight Guy" came onto the scene, all...
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In Which Commonmass and GreenMountainBoy02 Officially Announce Their Engagement
Take a good look at that wedding certificate. It's my great grandparents'. They were married in the Episcopal Church on the 8th of November 1913 at the Church of Our Redeemer in Lexington,...
View ArticleBrothers and Sisters: The Holy Innocents
Matthew 2: 16-18When [the Magi] had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. Get up, he said, take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod...
View ArticleThe Politics of Self-Denial and the Fiscal Cliff
"Democrats are practicing the politics of self-denial" says William Wilberforce Lumburgh, an Oklahoma State Senator and President of Concerned Republicans Against Progressive Policy Initiatives or...
View ArticleI Will Go To No Ball At All: A Doggerel Moment
I will not go to an Inaugural Ball, Nor any expensive party at all; I can't afford the charity, with lack of income parity, that others can and loudly say will be their action on that day.The sad fact...
View ArticleA Recommendation For Diaries on Religion
This will be a short diary.As one of the people here on Daily Kos who regularly writes on religious issues and who administrates a group dedicated to those issues, I've noticed something lately: there...
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Update on Kossack GreenMountainBoy02's Health Crisis
As some of you may know, my partner GreenMountainBoy02 was repeatedly hospitalized last week with what they thought might be flu. For the last two days he has been in the Special Care Unit (ICU) at...
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Update on GreenMountainBoy02's Health Crisis II
First, I want to thank you all for the outpouring of love from this community. I am deeply touched, as I always am, by the caring this community shows to its members.Today, his twin brother, older...
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