JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes

Dear Friends and Family,

I'm writing to you to ask for your support in a very special cause.

As you may know, I have type 1 diabetes. In fact, this July marked my 10th year of having diabetes. I blogged and chronicled my own diabetes story in four parts (if you follow this link, scroll down to find the four-part saga).

Once again this year, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation is holding a Walk to Cure Diabetes. Over a half-million walkers across the country will participate. Our goal: To raise $100 million to help fund research for a cure for type 1 diabetes and its complications.Type 1, or juvenile, diabetes, is a devastating, often deadly disease that affects millions of people--a large and growing percentage of them children.

Many people think type 1 diabetes can be controlled by insulin. While insulin does keep people with type 1 diabetes alive, it is NOT a cure. Aside from the daily challenges of living with type 1 diabetes, there are many severe, often fatal, complications caused by the disease.

That's the bad news... and yes, it's pretty bad.

The good news, though, is that a cure for type 1 diabetes is within reach. In fact, JDRF funding and leadership is associated with most major scientific breakthroughs in type 1 diabetes research to date. And JDRF funds a major portion of all type 1 diabetes research worldwide, more than any other charity.

I'm blogging to ask for your support because now more than ever, EACH of us can be a part of bringing about a cure. Each of us can make a real difference.

Won't you please give to JDRF as generously as you're able?Together, we can make the cure a reality.

Thank you,

Mike

Please visit the Walk webpage of my mother-in-law (Paula Marczak) if you would like to donate online or see how close we are to reaching our goal:

http://walk.jdrf.org/walker.cfm?id=87071335

Follow this link to make a donation:

http://walk.jdrf.org/support.cfm?id=87071335

It was the breast of times, it was the worst of times

I have never really found PETA to have much value or worth. The semi-nude ads? Those are quaint. Throwing paint on people wearing fur? You deserve a beatdown and then some. Taping slaughterhouses and farms where animals are severely mistreated, and where sick animals are coaxed and prepared for consumption? That is great work.

But this goes too far.

Human breast milk for ice cream? Are you kidding me? And why am I not surprised that some European restaurant is going to start doing this?

Don't get me wrong, when the wife is pregnant I'll see what the boob juice is all about. But that's my wife and in a very, very, very limited quantity. As a regular staple of my meals? That's messed up for anyone over an age not quantified in months.

For the Articles

Having read my wife's most recent blog entry about her chesticles, I feel compelled to provide a supplemental blog entry.

It is true that I said her chest was bigger than some of the girls in this month's issue. I point that out both because it is true but also because she once stated that all the girls featured have gigantic bolt-ons (read: implants). I naysayed that statement and have offered proof when possible.

All of that aside, I not-so-silently wonder if her blog followers now think I am pervy or one who objectifies women because I subscribe to, and have for nearly a decade, the magazine that is Playboy. Some see the magazine as smut and misogynistic, others see it as empowering to women and a celebration of the form of the fairer sex.

While I definitely am the latter rather than the former, I also -really- enjoy the articles. Cliche, right? I hope the wife chimes in on the comments and backs that statement when her own statement of "I read the articles too; they are good!" Don't get me wrong, the pictures are not objected to, but I would ACTUALLY get the magazine sans pictures. Hugh himself stated, "Without [playmates] I would be the publisher of a literary magazine." Such authors as Kurt Vonnegut, Hunter S. Thompson, and Shel Silverstein (yes THAT Shel Silverstein) were very, very regular contributors to Playboy. The article argument is with merit. I hope everyone gives them a read.

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