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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>Toward a Moral Life &#187; Politics</title>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m not loving our current product &#8212; it may not hunt for you.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/02/09/im-not-loving-our-current-product-it-may-not-hunt-for-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garry Trudeau is (IMO) the finest political cartoonist of the 20th and 21st centuries. Here is today another fine example: (The title line made me laugh out loud the first time I read it.) Tagged: Doonesbury, fox news, humor, myFacts, truth<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5694&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The brain trust that is the Santorum campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>givesgoodemail</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Dumbass of the Day]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The stupid--it burns!]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is yet one more reason that anyone smarter than an overripe turnip should avoid voting for Rick Santorum. No, I couldn&#8217;t find the Gospel of John in the Torah either. What. A. Moron. Tagged: Hannukah, mixed messages, Rick Santorum<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5687&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A savage look at Newtonian hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/31/a-savage-look-at-newtonian-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>givesgoodemail</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lying bastards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual hijinx]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really shouldn&#8217;t quote Savage Love letters in their entireties, but this one&#8216;s just too delicious to pass up. Congrats, Dan. It looks like you&#8217;ve got your first high-profile &#8220;monogamish&#8221; public figure: Newt Gingrich. You must be so proud. For anyone who spent last week under a rock: Newt Gingrich, brave defender of traditional marriage, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5637&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of this world</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/29/out-of-this-world-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tears to the eyes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The family is watching Planet Earth DVDs for homeschooling purposes, and the beautifully panoramic photography reminded me of one of my old posts: &#8220;You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an instant dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5630&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to outrun the lion. All you have to do is outrun your opponent.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/29/you-dont-have-to-outrun-the-lion-all-you-have-to-do-is-outrun-your-opponent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Occupy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Until progressives (particularly of the Occupy species) realize this, they might as well get up on big hamster wheels, and run and run and run without getting anywhere. Get out the vote, folks. Examine the candidates, and if you don&#8217;t like what you see, run yourself. Tagged: Occupy, political change<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5624&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;America has too many&#8230;Republican candidates!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/27/america-has-too-many-republican-candidates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:08:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Just &#039;cause it&#039;s funny]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Garry Trudeau, who is looking at a half-century of political commentary straight in the face, still gets it right: Tagged: Doonesbury, Repubican Party<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5616&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How the stupid burns!</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/25/how-the-stupid-burns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oklahoma state representative Ralph Shortey (a Republican, natch) wants to staunch his state&#8217;s rampant problems with cannibalism. After performing some &#8220;research&#8221;, he has decided to introduce state senate bill 1418 to the Oklahoma state legislature in order to prevent anyone in the state from using aborted fetuses as a food ingredient. This is not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5606&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome, This Ruthless World</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/24/welcome-this-ruthless-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve run across one of the most astute essays on American politics I&#8217;ve ever had the pleasure to read. Amused&#8217;s This Ruthless World recently wrote an essay called 12 Things I Want Every Politically Opinionated Person To Take To Heart. If I may, I will quote a bit of it: &#8220;The economy needs consumers — of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5602&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What does that say?</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/23/what-does-that-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:33:10 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dumbass of the Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral behavior]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dick Santorum]]></category>
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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;Be true to yourself, and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://givesgoodemail.com/2012/01/20/be-true-to-yourself-and-you-cannot-be-a-traitor-to-any-good-cause-on-earth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:56:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harriett got tired of standing by passively and watching the U.S. government give away peoples&#8217; rights in pursuit of the illusion of safety. She watched the Patriot Act become law. She watched as habeas corpus was suspended indefinitely. She watched as the NDAA was passed, allowing possible incarceration of American citizens without benefit of counsel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=givesgoodemail.com&amp;blog=3680290&amp;post=5583&amp;subd=givesgoodemail&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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