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		<title>Mercedes Love&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4362</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[

&#8230;still in it.

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		<title>What Lord&#8217;s Work?</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4358</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thumping My Pulpit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Abyss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something I posted over at Truth Wins Out&#8230;

What Lord’s Work?
Willa Sibert Cather said “There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.” So I’m reading a story in Today’s Deutsche Welle which, after another round of Vatican pronouncements on how defending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Have A Place For Hate Lite Program&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4356</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gay Youth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratuitous Anti-Gay Hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Gutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Jackass Chronicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kultar Kampf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For Our Lives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Le Dance Pathetique…as choreographed by Wheatland Wyoming School Board Member Joe Fabian…
Platte County School District 1 trustees voted 4-3 to keep the Anti-Defamation League&#8217;s &#8220;No Place for Hate&#8221; banners down at Wheatland High and West Elementary.
The schools were two of 25 in Colorado and Wyoming taking part in the program.
One of the sponsors listed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures In Home Ownership&#8230;(continued)</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4349</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 21:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adventures In Home Ownership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Geek Chronicles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For nearly all of my life I&#8217;ve been an apartment dweller.  I grew up, and grew into young adulthood with neighbors above me, neighbors below me, neighbors to my right and left.  The daily rustlings and occasional arguments heard through the walls were part of my normal experience.  Mind you, we lived in reasonably nice [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wait&#8230;What&#8230;?  I Thought We Could.</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4346</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Jackass Chronicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For America]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First they sold out the gays, and we said nothing because we weren&#8217;t gay. Then they sold out the liberals and we said nothing because we weren&#8217;t liberals.  Then they sold out the progressives and we said nothing because we were moderates.  Then they sold out the moderates and we said nothing because we were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Against The Public Policy Of The State&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4344</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 01:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Gay Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gratuitous Anti-Gay Hate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Human Gutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth Wins Out Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on Truth Wins Out&#8230;

“Against The Public Policy Of The State”
Here in my home state of Maryland, state delegate Emmett Burns Jr. (D – Baltimore County), known among activists here as a reliable opponent of equality for gay citizens, went on the offensive right out of the gate this year.  The legislative session had hardly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invaders From Mars, Atomic Ray Guns, Mysterious Caves and Bad Guys Wearing Fedora Hats&#8230;Must Be Republic Serial Time!</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4342</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 15:59:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kidhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Oboy&#8230;my copy of &#8220;Flying Diskman From Mars&#8221; came in the mail yesterday!

My collection of Republic Serials I Used To Raptly Watch On Saturday Mornings is almost complete now.
To this day the techno-nerd in me marvels at the special effects magic of the legendary brothers Howard and Theodore Lydecker.  And perhaps the reason I still like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Is A Process Of Growth And Maturity, Wherein We Seek Our Level Of Incompetance&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4339</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[This And That]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I was handed the following books by one of my project managers today&#8230;

The One Minute Manager
Managing Projects &#8211; Harvard Business School Press
Leading Teams &#8211; Harvard Business School Press
Running Meetings &#8211; Harvard Business School Press

I guess I&#8217;m at that stage in the life of every little tadpole techno nerd kid who one day becomes an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Stock&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4337</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Rapture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Damn&#8230;
I own a house of my own.
And&#8230;a Mercedes-Benz&#8230;that I bought New&#8230;
New&#8230;! It&#8217;s mine&#8230;
And I&#8217;m working for the Hubble Space Telescope&#8230;
I&#8217;m actually working for the space program&#8230;  The fucking Space Program! Making a living at it&#8230;getting a paycheck for it and everything&#8230;  A really nice paycheck&#8230;
And I live within walking distance of where I work&#8230;and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not A Good Thing</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4335</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Jackass Chronicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kultar Kampf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Le Dance Pathetique…as choreographed by The Barefoot Bride&#8230;
Un…
I have grown up in a home where Martha Stewart Living is one of the most oft-read magazines and, since I was old enough to truly appreciate weddings, have been a faithful purchaser of Martha Stewart Weddings.
Deux…
However, I feel I would be remiss if I did not share [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tequila Connoisseurage</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4324</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life Rapture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the Williams-Sonoma near Casa del Garrett, explaining to the nice lady behind the counter that, yes in fact, a good tequila is worth not only spending serious money on, but savoring slowly, and in just the right glass.   Last New Year&#8217;s week I was served an absolutely wonderful glass of Don Julio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today In Defending The Family From The Homosexual Menace&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4322</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Gutter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Kultar Kampf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Right Wing Mindset]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Sullivan&#8230;

Oh look at all the bible belt states in that second map.  They keep saying that same-sex marriage violates the &#8220;complementary nature of the sexes&#8221;.   Well it sure doesn&#8217;t get more complementary then when the family gene pool is kept in the family.
I&#8217;d like to see a comparison between states with the highest number [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Digby Said&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4315</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schrodinger's Bag O' Laughs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Jackass Chronicles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Useful Idiots]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Atrios&#8230;  Digby has a good post up about Hippie Randism and Libertarian Lefties that goes into something I&#8217;ve wanted to discuss more.  A libertarian isn&#8217;t a Randiod and either one of these could occasionally seem to resemble either a conservative or liberal.  Or to put it another way, and speaking of Whole Food&#8217;s hippy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Today In Random Google Searches That Led People Here&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4309</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4309#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 02:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beauty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Schrodinger's Bag O' Laughs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been getting a lot of hits on this particular google search lately&#8230;for some reason&#8230;
robbie benson
When I first noticed it I got a tad scared that he&#8217;d suddenly passed away or something.  But no.  It seems the gods of Google are just favoring my little blog with hits from people, I assume they&#8217;re mostly girls, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Romans Had Lions&#8230;We Have Marching Bands&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/4307</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Truth Wins Out Post]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Truth Wins Out I wrote&#8230;
The Romans Had Lions, We Have Marching Bands…
On the ChristianNewsWire site I see that something called “The Christian Anti-Defamation Commission” has released a list of what it’s pleased to call “the top ten incidents of anti-Christian defamation, bigotry and discrimination in the US from last year.”  According to its [...]]]></description>
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