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		<title>Healthcare Reform Polls: If you&#8217;re governing by the numbers, at least get the numbers right.</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/healthcare-reform-polls-if-youre-governing-by-the-numbers-at-least-get-the-numbers-right</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article (worded in predictably bellicose HuffPo prose) talks about a poll last week on the healthcare reform debate. Poll numbers like these are regularly cited on the right side of the fence to support the idea that the American people do not want healthcare reform. The responses for &#8220;do you favor or oppose the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Arguments = Missing Parameters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the hip kids these days are debating the whole healthcare crisis thing. And I agree it is a crisis. Yes, we&#8217;re living longer than ever before &#8212; so one might argue that we have no crisis, because we should just be happy with the way things are &#8212; but I would argue that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>a little less ow</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After an incredibly frustrating morning in which my time was wasted, fun things were foregone, and I had to drive all over this frickin&#8217; burg with an arm that felt like daggers were being driven down between the bones every time I had to shift a gear, I finally got my little shoulder immobilizer (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ow ow Ow Ow OOOWWW!</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/ow-ow-ow-ow-ooowww</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[so, I did an endo in a little dirt and grass field not far from home, just now. My laptop and other sundries were in my bag on my back. Luckily, I broke the fall with my FRIGGIN&#8217; SHOULDER! Holy ow. As soon as I got up, realizing what had happened, the pain kicked in. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health insurance for everybody? Not so easy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just read this (probably biased, but still&#8230;) highly pessimistic report on the State of Massachussetts&#8217; bold experiment with universal citizen health care. I have long been torn by this issue. I want everyone to have health care, and it seems like a friggin&#8217; crime that they don&#8217;t. But I realize that it&#8217;s friggin&#8217; expensive, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Annual Kitten Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 2006: Dexter. Backyard. Persistent. Adopted. September 2007: Moses. Weeds at reservoir. Loud and fearless. September 2008: Unnamed cat from campus. Grotesquely wounded. He&#8217;s in the cat carrier, now. I&#8217;m off to the vet in a few minutes. My friend was showing me the cute, sociable kitten on campus, when he decided to do a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autism-Vaccine Link? Thousands of Coincidences might Still Mean No.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 05:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autism Caused by Vaccines? Autism-vaccine controversy has lately captured (more of) my attention. You can&#8217;t search for &#8220;autism&#8221; or &#8220;vaccine&#8221; even separately on Google without stumbling across a dozen blogs dedicated to this subject1. This is obviously an area of  high passions. People&#8217;s children are being diagnosed with very scary, fundamentally unsettling disorders at increasingly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Stuff from my Web Laziness</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/webthings/funny-stuff-from-my-web-laziness</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:13:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know this bug? Funny Things: Craigslist &#8211; To the Drunk Hottie who Fell off my Motorcycle Very brief story of a girlfriend who is a little&#8230; well, just read it. (warning: there&#8217;s a swear) &#160; Not Funny Things: Armed Forces Journal (a fairly conservative venue): &#8220;&#8230;waterboarding is a torture technique that has its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not with a bang, but a whimper.</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/thoughts/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of nights ago, my friend Brad and I had a discussion. It got me thinking, as I often do, about mi patria (the United States), its role in the world, and its future on the international stage. This morning, while trying to find a citation for homicide rates as (lousy) indicators of overall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Alex&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2007 13:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;who thinks about pandemics much more than I do, and who is probably suffering the effects of the first global pandemic right now. Great. I&#8217;m married to a vector.]]></description>
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		<title>Sex Abstinence Study (no, not ME&#8230; a bunch of teenagers)</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/updates/sex-abstinence-study-no-not-me-a-bunch-of-teenagers</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Religious &#038; Cultural Iconography &#8211; Mexican Souvenir Shop A large-scale, dedade-long study of abstinence programs in the U.S. has released its final report. The popular press has gotten the main findings right: the programs don&#8217;t seem to have any impact on teen sexual behavior. But there are some other interesting things, too: There is no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not sure why I continue to post photos&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.bobbyfiend.com/photos/not-sure-why-i-continue-to-post-photos</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:45:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diane Arbus would be proud. I don&#8217;t know why I suddenly started to like this little snapshot. maybe because it looks so surreal, with the contrast of the three different qualities of light. I find interesting incongruities in the subject matter, too. Actually, it&#8217;s just Alex and me having dinner at a cabin in Tennessee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>wormy butt, wormy butt&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2007 15:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stairs at Museum in NYC 5/06 In this post: missed Temple appointment, delicious dinner, scary book leading to survivalist mentality, worms in cat&#8217;s butt. Yesterday: interesting. Got a little work done,Â got a little sleeping done. Alex and I went to the Temple in the evening, and&#8230; it was closed! Silly holidayÂ schedule. But then we went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not for the Faint of Heart. Or the Faint of Butt.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>burford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pooey and barfy. It&#8217;s a bad sign when you&#8217;re in the bathrooom to do #2, but you know it sounds like a very loud #1 outside the door :(. Alex and I went out to eat at Fresco, an Italian place on 10th and Trenton in McAllen. I had the Margherita pizza. Oy. [...]]]></description>
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