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	<description>&#34;From out there on the moon, international politics seem so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck, drag him a quarter million miles out, and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch!’ ” -- astronaut Edgar Mitchell</description>
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		<title>What does that say?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Santorum mentions gay sex (not gay marriage or gay &#8220;lifestyle&#8221;) in 43% of his public speeches. He repeatedly compares gay sex to bestiality and pedophilia, and tells rape victims to &#8220;make the best of a bad situation&#8221;. What does that say about him? Willard Romney has greatly resisted any sort of transparency about his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5599&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Oh, this one&#8217;s *easy*!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/22/oh-this-ones-easy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 04:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The intercom on His desk buzzed. He put down the latest copy of Playboy and thumbed the switch. &#8220;Yeah?&#8221; &#8220;Peter would like a word with You, Sir.&#8221; &#8220;Send him on in.&#8221; St. Peter stuck his head in the door. &#8220;Got a second, Big G?&#8221; &#8220;Sure.&#8221; God&#8217;s eyes wandered over his desk, and his eyes locked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5592&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday funnies</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/08/sunday-funnies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Moral behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The concepts this simple statement brought to my mind will be with me all day. And it&#8217;s so true. Tagged: Facebook, humor<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5533&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some people just don&#8217;t give a shit about anything</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 16:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t normally post tear-jerkers like this, but Whiskey and the Morning After&#8216;s Facebook share made me tear up: If I believed in Hell, I&#8217;d imagine a special level for people who allow such things to happen, and for such things to go on happening. Tagged: apathy, kittens, sorrow<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5529&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Can we count on this, Mr. Obama?&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 23:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Transparency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To paraphrase Tom Clancy, &#8220;Why should I trust you? You&#8217;re a politician.&#8221; Tagged: Barack Obama, NDAA<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5504&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Wadda ya mean, you won&#8217;t do it for free?!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2011/12/23/wadda-ya-mean-you-wont-do-it-for-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>givesgoodemail</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Moral behavior]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlan Ellison]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This piece of artwork came my way via Facebook this evening (Thanks, Mark!): That got me to thinking about this wonderfully educational, sweet-natured video from Harlan Ellison: Yes, Virginia, artists need money for groceries and rent, just like the rest of us. Think about that the next time you feel the urge to ask that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5470&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why *do* we fall in love?</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2011/12/20/why-do-we-fall-in-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick and dirty post today &#8212; Christmas business awaits me: Thanks to Questionable Content for this rather potent thought-provoker. Why indeed do we fall in love? Is not being alone enough? Tagged: being alone, love, Questionable Content<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5438&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Great Internet Truth #8</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2011/12/16/great-internet-truth-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>givesgoodemail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a blog doesn&#8217;t allow comments, it isn&#8217;t worth reading. Tagged: comments, CWA, Great Internet Truth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5421&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A fervent wish for my 1000th post</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2011/12/10/a-fervent-wish-for-my-1000th-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>givesgoodemail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I could have one wish, and only one wish, I would wish that transparency and accountability would be integral parts of politics and business. Capitalism and politics have lost the sterling reputations they should have because most businesses practice neither in the quest for the almighty dollar and politics shun both because politicians lack [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5367&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2011/12/07/i-see-one-third-of-a-nation-ill-housed-ill-clad-ill-nourished/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>givesgoodemail</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These words of Franklin Roosevelt are from his 1937 inaugural address. At the time our country was struggling to recover from the worst world-wide economic depression in history, and it was Roosevelt&#8217;s firm economic hand that was slowly guiding us to a recovery: It has often been said that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved capitalism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5338&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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