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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ann Romney]]></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>Message from the Grave</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2012 23:46:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walking among the graves of strangers on a sunny spring afternoon made me neither sad nor worried about mortality. It did have another effect: the sparse information on tombstones left me imagining the lives of people from other times and other places. They came to life again, however briefly, as I pictured the families they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whispered Challenge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family tree]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[hidden roots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When my late father retired, he began an emotional quest: to learn as much as he could about the father he never knew. His father walked out never to return when Dad wasn&#8217;t yet a month old. The year was 1928. My grandmother, twenty-one at the time, was a newspaper reporter as was the husband [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patina of Memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mohawk Tannery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nashua]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pollution]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If only I could take back the mouse clicks. The ones that showed how much had changed in the once out-of-way neighborhood in Nashua, New Hampshire, home of my early childhood. I haven&#8217;t been back since moving to Florida in 1959. It was spring. I was in the third grade. Then this week while researching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Name We Share</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:02:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bales]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cincinnati]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[name]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norwood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sgt. Robert Bales]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[U.S. Census]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s in a last name? Nothing really if you think of it as a mere collection of letters. Just the opposite though if you consider the effect of hearing it aloud. Upon hearing my name an image comes to mind: an anchor thrown from a fast-drifting boat snagging the bottom. It claims and holds my [...]]]></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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Lennon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ku Klux Klan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Beatles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vatican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winter Park]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[truth vigilantes]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[News]]></category>
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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>Still on the Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Mar 2012 20:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alzheimer's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Glen Campbell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Webb]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NPR]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Can a song &#8220;exist in a world of its own – not just timeless but ultimately outside of modern music&#8221;? One of the rare songs that does, the BBC says, is &#8220;Wichita Lineman.&#8221; I heard the song today for the first time in years and surely felt the same way I did when Glen Campbell&#8216;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heated Question</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/heated-question/</link>
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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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