So fantastic! I had these very same thoughts. It’s amazing when people claim First Amendment rights and then want to divorce themselves from moral and social responsibility from the EFFECTS of their “free speech”.
The following is a guest post in the form of an open letter from Special Olympics athlete and global messenger John Franklin Stephens to Ann Coulter after this tweet during last night’s Presidential debate.
Dear Ann Coulter,
Come on Ms. Coulter, you aren’t dumb and you aren’t shallow. So why are you continually using a word like the R-word as an insult?
I’m a 30 year old man with Down syndrome who has struggled with the public’s perception that an intellectual disability means that I am dumb and shallow. I am not either of those things, but I do process information more slowly than the rest of you. In fact it has taken me all day to figure out how to respond to your use of the R-word last night.
I thought first of asking whether you meant to describe the President as someone who was bullied as a child…
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So you remember when I was kvetching about Cross-blogination? Here’s another one. Gemma’s blog is on Blogger mine is of course on WordPress, so I am sharing the link to her review of my book manually.
If you have a Google+ account give her some sugars!
http://bookbloggergem.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/first-i-love-you-by-genevieve-dewey.html
My favorite part of the review is this: “The book doesn’t quite follow the rules of any specific genre – while the main theme is organised crime intertwined is a story of hatred, love and regret, which pleased me greatly. Some may say that you cannot have a story about warring Mafia families, crime and murder with stories of love thrown in, but I think in this instance it really worked.”
Aw, Hell, who am I kidding? I loved the whole thing! I’m so happy right now I could kiss the next seven people who walked up to me!
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A great collection of well written books from fellow ASMSG authors.
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A nice little poem from my friend Penny. Her blog is 18+ so follow the link only if, like me, you are an openminded person.
I know I frighten you
I know you care
I know you want to know me
But you don’t dare
I want you to talk to me
I want you to share
I know I can’t ask you
It wouldn’t be fair
Maybe One Day you’ll dare
Maybe One Day you’ll share
Maybe One Day it’ll be fair
Maybe One Day…
A sad but very beautiful poem…
As some of you may know, a little of my heart died last Thursday with the passing of my Mother, Joyce Molyneux. She was a formidable woman, born in Plumstead at the start of the war. Later, fate took her into London’s East End, where she raised eight children, including me.
It’s impossible to fully honor a woman who touched the hearts of so many. I am not a poet, but I wrote something this morning which represents a small tribute to an exceptional woman. Heathcliff called Kathy his heart’s darling. At last, I know exactly what that means. God bless you, Mum.
YOU WERE PERFECT
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You were perfect. You were you.
Others saw imperfections, I saw uniqueness.
The gifts you were given you used to the full,
Your capacity for love, poured out into your children,
And passed in time from them to theirs.
You were fruitful. You…
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LOVE this!
Congratulations! You’ve decided to self-publish. Welcome to the wild and wonderful world of the fastest-growing segment of the publishing industry.
Fastest-growing, eh?
Yep. Seems like you can’t turn around these days without someone sprinting off to publish the manuscript they’ve been working on for years. Or months. Or a couple of weeks. But does that mean that if you self-publish the rest of the literary world is going to “dial you down to dumbass”, as my Dad likes to say? Does that mean you’ve forever separated yourself from the realm of the serious author? Not anymore it doesn’t. But it does mean that you get to navigate a minefield of potential mistakes and problems, and you get to do it all by yourself.
Now, I consider myself to be a successful self-published author. I’ve got three books out and one coming out the first weekend of November. And I’ve learned…
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Genevieve Dewey 