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		<title>If Seamus Could Talk</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 17:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ann Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crategate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people fret about Mitt Romney’s treatment of his dog nearly thirty years ago than about his weather-vane political convictions. I ignored the story until recently. Sure the facts troubled me. Inhumane is a mild way of describing the 12-hour vacation trip that Seamus endured in a crate atop the family station wagon. But I have bigger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatles and Blasphemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny what you remember decades after a memorable news event. Consider the intense controversy over John Lennon&#8217;s claim in 1966 that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. Futility Closet sent me back to that time with one its &#8220;miscellany of compendius amusements.&#8221; Christian groups from Southern Baptists to the Vatican went nuts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lying in Plain Sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 19:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[contraception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jonathan Weiler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rush Limbaugh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sandra Fluke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will a reporter, especially one for the mainstream media, write: &#8220;He lied. Here&#8217;s the truth.&#8221;? I long for the day and never more than this week. For two consecutive days, NPR reported on the fallout about Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s comments about the Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke. In both instances reporter David Folkenflik described what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy Sex-Ed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 20:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Utah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I want to teach sex education in Utah&#8217;s public schools. If the governor signs the Legislature&#8217;s recently passed bill as expected, the state will limit the curriculum to abstinence. No teaching about human sexuality, contraception, and homosexuality allowed. I&#8217;ve already written my lesson plan. It would be the same every day. Learn four words: &#8220;Just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heated Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Florida State]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the South]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an unadulterated college football fan. My love for the game has remained steadfast even as my interest in sports in general has sharply waned. For decades I attended Florida State games, as did my brothers and father. We often suffered through intolerable heat and humidity, a family bond of sweat and devotion. Many times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acid-Trip Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LSD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masturbation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Rick Santorum]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reading this morning about Rick Santorum&#8217;s success in the Iowa caucus vote made me wonder whether someone slipped LSD into my coffee. How else to explain a presidential candidate of a major political party doing so well while opposing birth control and advocating that states can make it illegal. Santorum is essentially saying that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescribing Political Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barrack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Jack Cassell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hippocratic Oath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Orlando Sentinel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Florida urologist Jack Cassell doesn&#8217;t want to treat 69,438,983 Americans. &#8220;If you voted for Obama. . . seek urologic care elsewhere,&#8221; reads a sign outside Cassell&#8217;s office in Mount Dora, reported the Orlando Sentinel, a newspaper I helped edit for much of my adult life. Think of how shunning Obama backers could spread. When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spinning History</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:49:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jefferson Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Texas Board of Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson loses, Jefferson Davis wins. That&#8217;s my headline from the Texas State Board of Education&#8216;s preliminary approval last week of changes to textbooks. The board voted to delete Thomas Jefferson from the list of luminaries who contributed to the Enlightenment, the period in the 17th and 18th centuries when ideas like revolution, democracy, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Son&#8217;s Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/a-sons-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eulogy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ted Kennedy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of your opinion of Ted Kennedy, this eulogy by his oldest son is something you won&#8217;t soon forget. I heard it today, on my father&#8217;s 81st birthday, while driving home from Seattle. Hard to see the road through tears.]]></description>
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		<title>Obama the Timid</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/obama-the-timid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barrack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health-care reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lyndon Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Itâ€™s hard to avoid the sense that Mr. Obama has wasted months trying to appease people who canâ€™t be appeased, and who take every concession as a sign that he can be rolled. Paul Krugman nails what many of us have sensed with growing unease. For a guy absurdly and obscenely referred to as Hitler [...]]]></description>
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