Unbeknown to each of us, Charlotte and I started blogging about the same time in 2007. And also unbeknown we both worked for CBS Broadcasting though in different divisions, she in TV and myself in Radio, albeit not quite at the same time.

To be honest I forget how I came to send Charlotte an email a year or so ago, but ever since then I pester her with a multitude of links to postings I’ve done and she in turn, although not ad nauseum as myself, will send links to hers.

Charlotte has been an activist for same-sex marriage in MA and started her first website OUTTAKE Online which promotes her video production company. Then came along OUTTAKE BLOG  and her newest venture OUTTAKE VOICES where she interviews the movers and shakers in the LGBT community (sans moi’ !) and has audio clips of the interviews. Oh and did I mention she now has an online store called the OUTTAKE EQUALITY STORE .

This gal has almost as many blogs and websites as I do. Must have been something in the CBS drinking water.

So why, because this blog appears on a website for “sportsfags” should you be interested in learning about Charlotte ?

Well perhaps because during her tenure at CBS Broadcasting she won an Emmy Award while working on the NFL Today program. Not too shabby eh ?

Charlotte aside from being a like minded LGBT, has become an “unoffical” cuz’in and because she is always good about sending me goofy and sometimes serious birthday and holiday email cards, I thought I’d give you an intro to Charlotte in this belated “Birthday Card”.

She roots for the Red Sox (sigh) and I believe the Patriots too.

The only fault I have with Charlotte is she likes to name drop, at least to me, which she knows I get green with envy.

But then she can’t claim as I can that she went for a ride with Paul Newman in his race car at Lime Rock Park here in Connecticut.

Happy Birthday Kid-O and check out her websites and blogs sometime.

Longtime readers of my blog FOCUS and Focus On The Rainbow/Hearst know that I, for the most part, have respect for our LGBT organizations and “leaders”. However they also know I’m not afraid in commentary to throw them on the mat and stomp on ‘em from time to time.

What we need in regards to the pursuit of LGBT Rights is less “feel good” and in my view “poofy footing around” politics when it comes to issues and taking on our enemies.

While politics are played in the head offices, when it comes to the playing field, race track or court, the gloves are taken off and it’s mono e mono. And that’s what we need when it comes to DADT, Same-Sex Marriage and any number of other issues.

What we need are less “poofy politicked” leaders and doers and more over-testosteroned champions, both male and female to get the troops rallied and a game plan of getting down in the mud with the opponent.

It’s time we stopped getting slapped into the mud and getting up moaning we have broken a fingernail. What we need to do when we get slapped down is get back up and slap back, harder. Put their face in the mud and hold it there until they cry for Momma.

As General George S. Patton said, No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.