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			<title><![CDATA[Sex in schools is not just at Perv State]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Some of the regulars down at Sparky’s Diner took me to task this week for not adding my wooden two-cents to what is easily the sleaziest story to come out of academia this century.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:15:04 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Defining Occupy Wall Street by what it is not]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Magicians, that other group of professionals who make their living by fooling the public with sleight of hand and smoke and mirrors, have as their unofficial motto: mundus vult decipi, decipi decipiatur (the world wants to be deceived, so deceive it).]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 12 Oct 2011 18:19:45 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Reflections on 9/11]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[It is that time, the day we knew was coming, the date we did not need to mark on our calendars. What happened on that terrible Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, was a tragedy that profoundly affected us all.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Thu, 08 Sep 2011 09:24:20 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Looking into the eyes of evil no more]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Individuals wiser than I tell us the balance of nature allows for both good and bad, although not always in equal measure. Most of the time, we must search hard for the good in a situation so our personal scales will balance.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:55:08 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Looking into the eyes of evil]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[In a few days, exactly one week as I write this, our family will look once more into the eyes of evil and hope that our long journey for justice will be ended.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 17 Aug 2011 11:53:06 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Anthony trial or fashion police? Sometimes it was hard to tell]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The move of the Casey Anthony murder trial from the legal confines of a Florida court to the unrestrictive court of public opinion is an opportunity to look at how many media colleagues cashed in on the tragic death of a 2-year-old girl.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:58:49 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Global Christian persecution picks up during Lent]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, at the start of Great Lent, I told my wife I really should sit down and chart the negative news about Christians and Christianity that always seem to increase during the Lenten and Christmas seasons.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 11 Apr 2011 17:43:15 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[Human rights a foreign phrase to Cuban government]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Cuba is an example of an international subject with a Texas tie-in, and particularly the Houston/Galveston area, which includes ShadeyHill Ranch, where we have a sizeable Cuban population.  In fact, the guy who makes my hand-rolled cigars is Cuban.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:33:50 -0400]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[$#*! my daughters’ dad wears; reviewing Shatner's TV show]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Capt. James T. Kirk showed a generation how to go boldly where no man had not gone before.  Splitting the infinitive (&quot;to boldly go&quot;) may not have been the best example to set for those of us who obsess compulsively over grammar.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:58:41 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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			<title><![CDATA[The pain of the long-term unemployed - needed but not wanted]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The phone call interrupted the quiet routine into which I have settled over the past 16 months of unemployment.  Each evening rolls into the next with little to distinguish one from the other except for the prime-time television lineup.]]></description> 
			<pubDate><![CDATA[Fri, 28 Jan 2011 09:52:42 -0500]]></pubDate> 
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