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	<title>bobbyfiend &#187; updates</title>
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		<title>Why Mormons Should Think Twice Before Identifying Themselves As Republicans (1)V</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Oct 2011 17:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mormons are Republicans. OK, not everyone, but a lot of them. Especially the ones in the US West. This bothers me, not on the face of it, but because I&#8217;ve seen and heard so much from some of these members that suggests they have not fully considered the many relationships between this (or any) political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 25</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of me is relieved, as only a doting father can be. Another part, however, feels a growing concern. It&#8217;s not her behavior&#8211;my darling daughter is a bubbly, adorable infant as she should be&#8211;it&#8217;s the behavior of&#8211;well, things, around her. I still feel a dread at sharing any of this with her mother, who cannot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Day 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 03:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I write this with a growing mix of love and dread, mixed perhaps with some fear or fear-like emotion&#8211;possibly just extreme nervousness and a bit of flatulence, which&#8211;let me tell you&#8211;can sometimes turn perfectly ordinary mild fear into full-blown terror. Please let it be the gas. Just the gas. I write so that those who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference Spring 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ma blog a bit about conference. Just random thoughts, and I make no guarantee that I&#8217;ll get everything (or even listen to all the talks). Note: I missed yesterday (Saturday) because of childbirth education classes and then trying to catch up on the work I missed while in said classes. So I&#8217;m starting with&#8230; Sunday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Monkey Life Tips #1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Sea Monkey, You are currently at about 34 weeks gestation, and I just saw some birthing videos. Here is your first Life Tip: HEAD FIRST, FACE DOWN. That is all.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo: foggy overly-dramatic perspective lines</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:47:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More from the Foggy Morning photo shoot.]]></description>
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		<title>Most Americans oppose making tax cuts for wealthy permanent</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know one poll doesn&#8217;t answer all questions, but the recent CBS poll is the only one I&#8217;ve seen on this issue, and since it&#8217;s not done by a clearly biased organization like the Cato Institute, Fox News, or MoveOn, I&#8217;d rather trust it for now. Here are some results (done by me painstakingly learning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dan Savage&#8217;s &#8220;reasoning&#8221; looks like Rush Limbaugh&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m trying to process why I was so repelled by Dan Savage&#8217;s uncontrolled tirade at L.R. in a recent column. It&#8217;s not that I expect more of Savage &#8211; his regular column demonstrates every week that one should not expect clear thinking from that source &#8211; It&#8217;s because this week I&#8217;ve seen young people linking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No, Google, that is NOT what I meant.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:52:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching for a rape-prevention program called &#8220;men&#8217;s strengths&#8221; or &#8220;men of strength&#8221; or something similar, for citations in a chapter I was writing yesterday. I asked Google. Google was not helpful (as you can see below), and was actually just a teensy bit insulting. ^~^ men_s strengths]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lost&#8221; Haikus &#8211; S1E11 through S1E19</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 12:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex and I have been keeping up our frantic Haiku-writing regimen, but we keep forgetting to post them to facebook (or here). Well, I present episodes 11 through 19. S1E11 &#8220;All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues&#8221; Me: Alex Claire got herself snatched. Locke finds Island&#8217;s next secret: namely, the basement Walt wins backgammon; Ethan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lost&#8221; Haikus &#8211; S1E8 through S1E10</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/lost-haikus-s1e8-through-s1e10</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/lost-haikus-s1e8-through-s1e10#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 04:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[S1E8 (&#8220;Confidence Man&#8221;) Me: Alex Jack and Sayid go Lord of the flies just because Barbie has asthma Books about bunnies, suitcases full of monies, kisses for puffers &#8230; S1E9 (&#8220;Solitary&#8221;) Me: Alex Sayid gots demons. Danielle gots lectricity. Jungle gots whispers. Golf game restores hope; Rousseau yields clues&#8211;I bet that this &#8220;Alex&#8221; is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Lost&#8221; haikus (Season 1)</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/lost-haikus-season-1</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/lost-haikus-season-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 20:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex and I have waited &#8217;til now to watch LOST. We&#8217;ve watched several episodes, and her crackpot idea was to write a haiku about each one. Her crackpot ideas tend to be awesome. Anyway, here are the first seven, plus a limerick I wrote out of the normal sequence, and an extra haiku she wrote. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Osama Bin Laden vs. Timothy McVeigh</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/osama-bin-laden-vs-timothy-mcveigh</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/osama-bin-laden-vs-timothy-mcveigh#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 23:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Osama Bin Laden Timothy McVeigh Terrorist Terrorist Believes in killing innocent people to make his point Believed in killing innocent people to make his point Orchestrated a terrorist attack in New York that killed Americans Orchestrated a terrorist attack in Oklahoma that killed Americans Killed Americans while a Republican was President Killed Americans while a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Halifax was great. Houston&#8230; not so much.</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/halifax-was-great-houston-not-so-much</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/halifax-was-great-houston-not-so-much#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to get around to responding to my right-wing-libertarian brother&#8217;s ideas from Christmas, but that requires more time than I&#8217;ve had for blogging since New Year&#8217;s. Right now I&#8217;m just going to rant a bit about travel, because that requires very few brain cells. Halifax is gorgeous. I must admit it. As anyone may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CLE is awesome for three reasons now</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/790</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 20:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like this airport for the following reasons: 1. The alcove of secret free WiFi. Which is barely functional at the moment, so maybe they figured out how to block it? 2. The paper airplanes in the tunnels :D 3. Banjoe&#8217;s Cafe. It&#8217;s not on everyone&#8217;s beaten path, but if you find it, it&#8217;s worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dobbs Takes His Business Elsewhere</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lou Dobbs has just quit CNN. I know some Hispanic activism groups will be happy about this, since the move reduces CNN&#8217;s perceived hypocrisy in regards to Hispanic and immigration issues, but I&#8217;m not as enthusiastic. Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I think Dobbs is yet another demagogue entertainer masquerading as a journalist, like Bill O&#8217;Reilly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Behold! I Have Conquered Pit Stains! I Share My Wisdom!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:58:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe it is no exaggeration to say that I now number among the giants of technology like Alexander Graham Bell and Whoever Invented That Huge Computer That Filled A Whole Stinking House Or Something. Yes, I have conquered pit stains. I know it&#8217;s a gross topic, but it must be discussed. I have researched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wrong Poster Girl</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rukhsana Kauser is my new hero(ine). When the leader of a roaming band of terrorists and some of his thugs barged into her home and started beating her parents, she grabbed a hatchet, surprised the main guy, killed him with his own AK-47,  wounded another thug (with the help of her older brother), and sent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roman Polanski Raped a Child</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:45:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kate Harding&#8217;s piece in Salon.com pulls no punches, and is not something a minor should read, but she is absolutely right on. I couldn&#8217;t agree more. From her conclusion: Roman Polanski may be a great director, an old man, a husband, a father, a friend to many powerful people, and even the target of some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google ads is like a 4-year-old with ADHD&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;blurting out inappropriate things in front of the neighbors. (awesome)]]></description>
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