Damn cancer

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Thursday May 17, 2007 · 8:56 PM PDT

2007/05/17 · 20:56

Good news is that I don't seem to be dying. The bad news is that, despite SFGate articles to the contrary, I probably got it from oral sex.

I saw the article, and today I asked one of my doctors. Read on to find out more.

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Thursday September 28, 2006 · 11:10 PM PDT

2006/09/28 · 23:10

On Wednesday, August 16th, I was diagnosed with Squamous Cell Carcinoma on the left anterior 1/3 of my tongue. The cancer progression was T1N0M0 (Tumor less than 2mm, no lymph node involvement, no metastatis), which gave me about an 80% 5 year survival rate (the best category I could hope for with Oral Cancer). Fortunately, I had no risk factors. I never smoked, dipped, drank frequently to excess, had neither HPV or EBV. There was no metastasis to other areas. That afternoon after surgery on my tongue, I entered a new world. I resolved to fight and win. I resolved to need no speech therapy. I would use this as an opportunity, as fuel to my fire. There is important work left to be done, and, damnit, I have hands to help. I have an adorable little daughter who needs to build her first robot before the age of 5. Read More

I'm no longer a whore of the Right, now what?

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Thursday November 10, 2005 · 5:54 AM PST

2005/11/10 · 05:54

So, I'm not longer working at a corrupt Red doughnut purveyor, and I'm no longer involved in our VPs "voluntary" requests for help on various Republican campaigns. While I haven't completely cut ties with my connections and friends, I find myself rather alone. I guess my new kinder, more liberal glow just offends them.

However, now that I'm free, I've been forced to face the fact I've traded programming accounting and management software at one one mega-company peddling sugary DSD crap for another (doughnuts to soda). Not exactly moving toward liberalism at warp-speed.

Anyone want to help me brainstorm for a new, more liberal career? Maybe one that does justice to the verb named after me?
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Rove is right about liberals

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Friday June 24, 2005 · 8:55 AM PDT

2005/06/24 · 08:55

Rove was right. "When he said Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; [and liberals didn't]," he was right.

Rove, absolutely, was right. When the time comes, we don't "brandish steel," and run off like an ignorant ass. We put a little bit of damn thought into it first. It's like this, when someone pulls a gun on us, or friends, and our family, all we think about protecting them. But it seems that if the gun was pulled on the Bush's extended family, all they can think about is their own dick. They just want to hurt the guy who would pull the gun on them and take their manliness, their masculinity. I've seen this in lowlifes and deadbeats before. "Brandish steel" indeed. Read More

Today, I'm glad I'm not a Democrat

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Tuesday May 24, 2005 · 1:30 PM PDT

2005/05/24 · 13:30

So, after a year of hanging around this place, I finally get a coherent picture of what it means to be a Democrat. No no no. Not in a platform, or Membership Card kind of way, but in a Cookie Jar kind of way. Oh, new to Cookie Jar politics? It means that everything in the jar looks good to you, even if you don't swallow them all. After painstaking research, I came up with this list:

Socialist
Pragmatist
Futurist
Scientist
Environmentalist
Economist
Relativist
Individualist
Capitalist
Pro-Choice
Intelligent
Constitution-thumper
Positive liberty (You LIKE to think so, anyway) Read More

Are You Still Clueless?

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Tuesday March 15, 2005 · 9:19 AM PST

2005/03/15 · 09:19

I read pretty much all the comments from my last diary. I've also read PLENTY of comments from other sites, from every shade of the political spectrum. I've mulled it over a couple of weeks, and it leads me here, to a place I don't want to be. You see, there's this place called Fantasy Bullspit Land. I know, because I lived there. What's funny about living there is I get to see a few of you folks on a daily basis. What's amazing though, is how often I see the other side of the isle over there too.

So, what's going on in Fantasy Bullspit Land? Happy, Hunkey-dorey Bullspit, that's what.

Bullspit like:

1)There aren't people out there that don't mind exploiting anyone and anything they can, and
2)Those people aren't running things. Read More

You Liberals are Clueless

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Thursday February 24, 2005 · 9:59 AM PST

2005/02/24 · 09:59

(From the diaries. Read it all the way through -- kos)

Part one: The Introduction

Seriously. I mean it. You are completely, utterly clueless.

Well, that's a lie. You are, however, utterly clueless about the hearts and motivations of the core of your opposition, American Conservatism. That's OK. Don't fall into the trap of "Personal Responsibility" and shoulder too much blame for your ignorance. How could you ever know us if no one ever told you?

You can't. So this American Conservative will tell you. Read More

Say it, "Torture is good."

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Wednesday January 12, 2005 · 2:24 PM PST

2005/01/12 · 14:24

That's the opinion expressed here in this Slate Fray piece http://slate.msn.com/id/2112101/.

Take a moment to read it. Go ahead, I'll wait.

I only need to quote this:

Why does no one have the courage to stand behind an obvious principle--we need torture to win the war on terror?

It's a really succinct view of what I'm up against intellectually every day here in the Triad. We haven't just started loosing the torture debate. We're rapidly loosing our liberal democracy.

Read on, and let's see what we can do. Read More

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