Charity

It started in 2011. A bunch of EMS bloggers pledged to change their blog backgrounds pink for the month of October to raise awareness for breast cancer research. In his own unique way, EMS Artifact pointed out to us that prostate cancer was just as prevalent in men as breast cancer was in women, and received just a fraction of ...

Only two days to go in our Kilted to Kick Cancer 2013 Fundraising Challenge, and it looks as if our goal to raise $50,000 was overly ambitious, but today we broke $10,000, and I have hopes that we can equal our first year's total by the time the challenge ends at midnight on Monday. Standings as of 1520 CST on ...

Well, KTKC 2013 is drawing near to its end, with only four days left in the fundraising challenge, and it looks like we won't meet our $50k goal. That was an extremely ambitious goal anyway, but you know what they say; if you aim low, you tend to hit where you aimed. Right now, we're at roughly $8300 in this ...

Okay guys, we've a little more than a week left to go in Kilted to Kick Cancer 2013, and we're still way below our fundraising goal. There are quite a few Kilted fundraisers out there offering their own set of enticements for you to donate to their campaign, so check one of them out and donate to a good cause! ...

As promised, the newest addition to the Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraising prize packages: That’s a matched AR15 upper and lower courtesy of KTKC supporter Alex Wakal, owner of Dreadnaught Industries. DI-15 upper and lower receivers are machined from 7075-series aluminum forgings that are stainless shot peened and Type 3 hard anodized for durability. Dimensionally consistent, these receivers are finished ...

I’m waiting to finalize details, but I can give you a teaser now: There’s a late donation to the KTKC prize packages, and this one’s nice enough it gets a prize package of its own. I don’t want to give too much away, but it starts with a G and rhymes with “run.” I was originally offered this one as ...

Well, we're halfway through Kilted to Kick Cancer 2013, and well short of halfway to our goal. Will you help us reach our goal of $50,000? Jeff Brosius is offering chances at a case of the craft-brewed beer of your choice, and has vowed to wear a kilt during our November duck hunt if you help him reach his fundraising ...

The latest in one-upmanship from our Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraisers is this bit of skulluggery from my buddy Jeff Brosius:   Dude, that's just… diabolical. Won't someone please put an end to these poor girls misery? I mean, he's dropping them off at school like that. In front of their friends. Donate to Jeff's KTKC campaign here. And if ...

Make absolutely certain your donations are being credited to your 2013 campaign.

Last year, I waxed my whole body. I even shaved off my 'stache. The year before that, I put up a picture of myself in drag. It wasn't fun. In fact, it was pretty horrific, considering the fact that the clippers I was given to trim with didn't work, so they had to rip my pelt off as-is. I was ...

Okay, we're eight days into Kilted to Kick Cancer 2013, and our Kilted Army is out there raising awareness for male-specific cancers, and raising funds for cancer education and research! We've got guys offering home-brewed craft beer as enticements. We've got guys offering gunnie schwag, including an official KTKC 2013 AR15 lower. We've got guys featured on their local news. ...

He's a soldier, shooter, and the author of the Guns and Coffee blog.   He's also out spreading the word about male-specific cancers in Stevens Point, WI.   You can donate to his Livestrong fundraising campaign here.   He's Fred Simons, and he's Kilted to Kick Cancer.   Get Kilted, and get checked!  

At the gas station where I frequently fill up on the way to taking KatyBeth to school, there is a group of old men in their retirement years who gather on benches in front of the store, smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee and arguing politics. Most days we just nod politely to each other, or perhaps exchange a brief word of ...

Posted before I start mowing that lawn behind me, because I’m going to look decidedly less pretty afterwards.

Yeah, Jay G. is giving away all sorts of schwag for people who donate to his Kilted to Kick Cancer fundraising campaign, and I may even donate $5 myself to get a chance at winning that schweeeet AR15 lower (serial # KTKC 2013, how cool is that??), but I have something even better. I have LawDog stories. For those of ...