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  • The Value of Equality


    My work, which is with a private contractor that answers telephone calls for various U.S. government agencies, has allowed me to conduct initial telephone background checks on firearms purchases, assist people looking and applying for government grants, and help federal employees with their travel arrangements.
    [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2008, 9:07am EST
    by James

  • The Farfelberfel Voting System


    Hello, this is Miss Jenkins with the (insert a presidential candidate) campaign. We'd like you to participate in a short survey about presidential politics ... We hate it when that happens at our house, and it's been happening more and more lately. I'm the one who [...]
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    Posted: February 12, 2008, 8:19am EST
    by James

  • The Next President: Better Than Dubya, at the Very Least


    When I was a boy --- I wish I could think of a way to start this without that phrase, but I'm just too tired --- the only presidents whose birthdays we observed were Abraham Lincoln's (Feb. 12) and George Washington's (Feb. 22).

    I [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2008, 8:24am EST
    by James

  • I Have a Dreamgirl

    Yesterday, at my day job, which involves answering telephones and helping people with technical issues related to their applications for federal government grants, I stood up to stretch and suddenly felt the need to sing the old Supremes' song, "Where Did Our Love Go?"
    These moments happen [...]
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    Posted: January 31, 2008, 8:38am EST
    by James

  • Being Where You're Supposed to Be

    At my co-worker's invitation, the lady sat down and joined us at our table in the workplace lunchroom.

    I'm new to the company for which I'm working and so every day provides an opportunity to make a new acquaintance and hear a fresh human story.
    [...]
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    Posted: January 17, 2008, 6:40am EST
    by James

  • Blessed to the Final Departure


    I love what my parents made of their marriage, which lasted 63 years.

    By the time the love story of Clifton and Minnie Spires ended on Jan. 15, 1999 --- that's the day Dad died of pneumonia in a hospital bed in Gallipolis, Ohio, [...]
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    Posted: January 09, 2008, 6:51am EST
    by James

  • Insurance Priorities

    Yesterday, I was headed from my home in Middlesboro, Kentucky to my job in Barbourville, about 40 miles north, when a pickup truck driven by a woman with a baby in her back seat sheared off my front bumper.

    I won't bog down this column [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2008, 10:05am EST
    by James

  • Insurance Priorities

    Yesterday, I was headed from my home in Middlesboro, Kentucky to my job in Barbourville, about 40 miles north, when a pickup truck driven by a woman with a baby in her back seat sheared off my front bumper. I won't bog down this column with the [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2008, 9:36am EST
    by James

  • Sadie's Choice


    January 6 is observed in many Christian denominations as the Feast of the Epiphany, when Jesus was presented to the world and worshipped by the Magi.

    The same date has a sadder resonance for me as one who is a recipient of what has [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2008, 10:20am EST
    by James

  • Dangerous Nonsense

    Note from James: After you read this, check out my friend Jay Spears' new video of his song, "Smak Dem Christians Down":

    [www.jayspears.com]

    I had hoped the New Year in Kentucky, with a new gubernatorial administration that has to be an improvement over [...]
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    Posted: December 25, 2007, 2:03pm EST
    by James

  • More Than I Can Chew?

    This is a big step on my part --- actually writing down my goals, resolutions, pipe dreams, whatever.
    It's a big step because every time I return to this entry, I will be reminding myself of where I was on this date and what I wanted [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2007, 8:59am EST
    by James

  • "Don't Look, Ethel!"

    First of all, as I set out to write this, I would like to say that as far as I'm concerned, I AM married.

    Robert Samuel Cox became my first and only husband (and third spouse) the day I moved in with him under his [...]
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    Posted: December 23, 2007, 3:57pm EST
    by James

  • Looking for the Next Chapter: Bert Harder

    If he were alive, my maternal grandfather, Herbert Race "Bert" Harder, would observe his 136th birthday on Christmas Eve.

    Grandpa, who was the only grandparent I actually knew in my lifetime, was almost 80 years old when I, the last of his 20 grandchildren, was [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2007, 12:00pm EST
    by James

  • Looking for the Next Chapter: Bert Harder

    If he were alive, my maternal grandfather, Herbert Race "Bert" Harder, would observe his 136th birthday on Christmas Eve.

    Grandpa, who was the only grandparent I actually knew in my lifetime, was almost 80 years old when I, the last of his 20 grandchildren, was born in 1951. He [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2007, 12:00pm EST
    by James

  • The Coming Year: Same Old Same Old

    In Florida, where gay marriage is already banned, the Legislature wants to do the other 27 states that ban same-sex marriage one better: They want to put a "no marriage for queers" clause into the state Constitution.

    Sigh.

    That's what the Sunshine State has [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2007, 10:04am EST
    by James

  • The Coming of Winter

    The first snow of the new winter season is predicted to arrive here in the Cumberland Gap region within 24 hours. We'll see...

    Tomorrow, on Sunday, Dec. 16, Robert and I will be hosting our annual Christmas Tree Decorating Open House. If all the people [...]
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    Posted: December 15, 2007, 10:21am EST
    by James

  • The Coming Year in Kentucky



    A friend of mine, based in Massachusetts, the ultimate liberal "blue state," recently wrote the following comments to me about preconceived notions he held most of his life about the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
    "Well, there is no coast, it seems conservative, bible-belt, blue collar, [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2007, 7:12am EST
    by James

  • Remembering Grandpa Spires


    Dec. 16, 2007 will be the 55th anniversary of the death of my grandfather, Clyde Cecil Spires.
    On that date in 1952, I was one year, 10 months and 10 days old. I assume that Grandpa Spires had seen and considered me, his 21st grandchild [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2007, 10:22am EST
    by James

  • Friday, December 7, 2007

    Looking back at 2007

    Looking back at what it was like to be an openly gay man in the Commonwealth of Kentucky during 2007, I can see that (1) My life has been more enjoyable because I have embraced who I am, and (2) [...]
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    Posted: December 07, 2007, 10:59am EST
    by James

  • Lizzie Borden: Matchmaker


    Robert and I still cannot agree on the date that we first met online.

    I say it was Dec. 13, 2005. He says he has documented proof that it was Dec. 11 of the same year. So, for the time being, we compromise and [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2007, 10:11am EST
    by James
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