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		<title>&#8220;Some men just want to watch the world burn.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m watching one of my favorite movies, and I ran across one of my favorite movie monologues: &#8220;Criminals aren&#8217;t complicated. We just have to figure out what he&#8217;s after.&#8221; &#8220;With respect, Master Wayne, perhaps this is a man *you* don&#8217;t fully understand, either. A long time ago, I was in Burma. My friends and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6176&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And here you thought you hated Ayn Rand</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 17:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From her The Virtue of Selfishness: &#8220;Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).&#8221; The fine folks in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6138&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A desire to bring every good thing to my child before I have another&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/05/07/a-desire-to-bring-every-good-thing-to-my-child-before-i-have-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 23:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Good news for a change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tears to the eyes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Melinda Gates and the Gates Foundation have announced a new initiative, and it&#8217;s one that might just bring a little mist to the eyes: (The video is long, but like most TED talks it is well worth getting through.) The Gates Foundation is working toward two new goals: Make contraception available to anyone in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6107&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The fault, dear Cassius, is not in the stars but in ourselves.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/04/23/how-many-more-children-have-to-die/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the boldest journalistic move I&#8217;ve seen in years, the Sioux City (Iowa) Journal had this as their entire front page yesterday: Here&#8217;s the editorial that followed: Siouxland lost a young life to a senseless, shameful tragedy last week. By all accounts, Kenneth Weishuhn was a kind-hearted, fun-loving teenage boy, always looking to make others [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6034&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why should I believe *you*?&#8221; &#8220;Because whatever I say is *true*!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/04/19/why-should-i-believe-you-because-whatever-i-say-is-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Bad news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: They deleted my second comment as well. That&#8217;s the end of ThinkProgress as far as I&#8217;m concerned. ~~~ Never let it be said that conservative news sources are more censorious than liberal sources. Case in point: I recently made a comment on this story posted in ThinkProgress. I posted a comment questioning the source, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6017&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Why do we do this the hard way, Sergeant?&#8221; &#8220;Because I said so!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/04/17/why-do-we-do-this-the-hard-way-sergeant-because-i-said-so/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Moral behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My oldest son is currently living this nightmare in the armed forces. Don&#8217;t you see this every day? People making the same bad financial choices, the same bad life choices, the same bad moral choices. Today, make different choices, better choices. Take a walk rather than watch the game on the tube. Read a book [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6012&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It is all a matter of choice</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/04/13/it-is-all-a-matter-of-choice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Moral behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Planned Parenthood site &#8212; patient care provided by Planned Parenthood affiliates: So yes, PP does offer abortion services &#8212; for 3% of its over 11 million clients. However, keep in mind that PP is the source of contraception material and STD screenings for the poor and students. My daughter uses PP for her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=6003&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How wrong-headed could people be?!</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/04/09/5986/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[....just creepy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two books that every wingnut perv/conservative politico ought to have on the bookshelves: Here are two books, one written by Karen Santorum (and foreworded by Joe Paterno, FFS!) and the other written by George &#8220;Lift my luggage&#8221; Rekers. Here are two books involving people who have allowed or encouraged adults to abuse children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=5986&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You guys always bring me the *very* best violence.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/04/05/you-guys-always-bring-me-the-very-best-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 22:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Good news for a change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA["failure?"]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Universe&#8217;s gratitude (expressed in the title of this entry) parallels my own when it comes to The Spouse. She finds me the best stuff to write about. Today was no exception. This was posted by Darwin Phillips on Facebook: Taking America Forward Instead of Backward: I recently read this response to some O haters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=5973&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remember this important lesson, kids</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/03/31/remember-this-important-lesson-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2012 15:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Mr. Risenhoover and God&#8217;s Patience for this bit of weekend inspiration. (It&#8217;s creepy to see Voldemort and Bellatrix smiling next to Dumbledore.) Tagged: Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling, tolerance<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&#038;blog=3680290&#038;post=5954&#038;subd=givesgoodemail&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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