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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>
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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>
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		<category><![CDATA[LSD]]></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>
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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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 04:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 04:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<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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		<title>Propaganda puppets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time in this country when journalists lived to expose politicians&#8217; lies. Today, however, some let politicians trample the truth unchallenged just when the public most needs the straight story. I&#8217;m speaking of the ludicrous claims that health-care reform proposals would establish &#8220;death panels&#8221; and give the federal government access to peoples&#8217; bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Death of Rational Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 18:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neil Armstrong]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When do we start a serious dialogue about the Birther movement being a proxy for racism that is unacceptable to articulate in more direct terms?&#8221; So asks Glen Thrush at Politico about a new poll on whether President Barack Obama is a U.S. citizen. The poll shows 58 percent of Republicans believe Obama isn&#8217;t a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Repeating</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SAVAK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shah]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1978, when I was a young newspaper reporter in Melbourne, Florida, I covered a protest march by a few dozen Iranian students. Carrying placards and shouting slogans, faces flush with anger, they looked as if they had wandered onto the wrong movie set. I didn&#8217;t know much about the target of their rage: the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revolution in Real Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twittering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revolution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in following a revolution for freedom in real time, one in which people risk their lives to stop oppression, follow what&#8217;s happening in Iran via Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s blog. The response to the hijacked election is among the most moving news events I&#8217;ve encountered, largely because much of the coverage comes directly from [...]]]></description>
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