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	<description>photography, politics, psychology, religion, and me</description>
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		<title>Why Mormons Should Think Twice Before Identifying Themselves As Republicans (1)V</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/why-mormons-should-think-twice-before-identifying-themselves-as-republicans-1v#comments</comments>
		<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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		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/day-25#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 22:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=941</guid>
		<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>Gender and Brain Lateralization?</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/gender-and-brain-lateralization</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/gender-and-brain-lateralization#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 01:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[brains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gender war]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is some rampant, unsupported speculation: Maybe there&#8217;s some kind of case to be made for brain lateralization as a metaphor for gender abilities/roles/specializations/uniquestuffs. You know, say that one side was like &#8220;male&#8221; and the other was like &#8220;female.&#8221; No, seriously; dig it: Specialization obviously occurs. There&#8217;s some nature going on, but obviously some nurture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conference Spring 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/conference-spring-2011</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/conference-spring-2011#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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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>Patriotic Sex versus Patriotic Violence: LDS Preferences?</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/923</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a habit of trying to point out logical problems in ideas by suggesting counterexamples. I know proof by analogy isn&#8217;t ultimately very valuable, and I know not everything can be demonstrated (or disproved) by examples, but it still seems valid at least as a way of illustrating &#8212; in ways people can understand [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Massive Nick Thread on fMh</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/massive-nick-thread-on-fmh#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 05:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So my loving wif has been describing to me an EPIC (or epic-esque) thread on feminist Mormon housewives. It was dominated by a guy named Nick who had some issues. Big ones. And it captured both our attention (honeypie&#8217;s and mine). I made word clouds of Nick&#8217;s comments and the general thread, for some kind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will run the Church in ten years?</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/who-will-run-the-church-in-ten-years</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/who-will-run-the-church-in-ten-years#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes wish I could go get a new PhD in something else&#8211;in this case, sociology or anthropology, to study LDS people. I&#8217;ve been having some odd thoughts about de facto succession of leadership and participation in the church. I feel, lately, that I have seen a pattern emerge from time to time: Apparently doctrinally-orthodox [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo: foggy overly-dramatic perspective lines</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/photo-foggy-overly-dramatic-perspective-lines</link>
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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>Grackles in a tree with the sun behind them</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/photos/grackles-in-a-tree-with-the-sun-behind-them</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/photos/grackles-in-a-tree-with-the-sun-behind-them#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 12:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Foggy morning, grackles in a tree.]]></description>
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		<title>Photo: Frost on a bush &#8211; Spring Lake, Ontario</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/photos/photo-frost-on-a-bush-spring-lake-ontario</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/photos/photo-frost-on-a-bush-spring-lake-ontario#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From my winter visit Up North:]]></description>
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		<title>Most Americans oppose making tax cuts for wealthy permanent</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/majority-of-americans-oppose-making-tax-cuts-for-wealthy-permanent</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/majority-of-americans-oppose-making-tax-cuts-for-wealthy-permanent#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Dec 2010 17:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=891</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/dan-savages-reasoning-looks-like-rush-limbaughs</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/dan-savages-reasoning-looks-like-rush-limbaughs#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 16:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=886</guid>
		<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>Dear Dan Savage: Good Intentions Do Not Justify Stupid Rhetoric or Prejudice</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/dear-dan-savage-good-intentions-do-not-justify-stupid-rhetoric-or-prejudice</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/dear-dan-savage-good-intentions-do-not-justify-stupid-rhetoric-or-prejudice#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 01:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dan Savage&#8217;s column has always been a sometimes-entertaining example of pandering to one&#8217;s audience and earning revenue through controversy. Now, however, Savage seems to have made the leap from occasionally funny sexual entertainment shockster to ideological Doberman. Sure, his narrow-minded bias is employed for only the best of motivations, but isn&#8217;t that always the case? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2008 Income and Taxes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 15:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I was getting frustrated with partisan rhetoric about taxes and income. Yes, talking about percentages and rates and proportions and whatnot can often increase clarity with complex data, but sometimes these are also used to conceal or distort some aspect of the information. I decided to make my own graph of 2008 incomes by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review: Le Guin&#8217;s &#8220;The Dispossessed&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/book-review-le-guins-the-dispossessed</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/book-review-le-guins-the-dispossessed#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Aug 2010 12:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, lemme say I generally have loved LeGuin reads in the past. I found The Left Hand of Darkness to be thought-provoking and well done, and (of course) the entire Earthsea series was brilliant. I finally made it through The Dispossessed, and am of two distinct minds about it. Mind 1: Her prose is, as [...]]]></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>﻿Rules for Driving in South Texas</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/%ef%bb%bfrules-for-driving-in-south-texas</link>
		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/%ef%bb%bfrules-for-driving-in-south-texas#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.bobbyfiend.com/?p=869</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Do not operate your vehicle without your cell phone held firmly to your ear. Driving without a cell phone in this configuration is highly dangerous; it could result in missing important updates from friends and family, such as: &#8220;Take a left on Tenth Street,&#8221; &#8220;So anyways I says to my baby momma&#8230;&#8221; or &#8220;I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Awesome South Texas Birds I Don&#8217;t Know</title>
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		<comments>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/photos/four-awesome-south-texas-birds-i-dont-know#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I shot these pics yesterday while kayaking on an arroyo near (in?) Los Fresnos. I have no idea what any of these birds are, except the cormorant. The rest are pretty much just awesomebirds. Maybe I should learn about birds.]]></description>
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