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	<title>The Story So Far...</title>
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	<description>Bruce Garrett's Weblog.  Essays and musings on my life and my world.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Today In The Sanctity Of Marriage&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3852</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 15:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[The Criminal Mind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[High Finance edition&#8230;

Feds seize Madoff penthouse, wife leaves
NEW YORK &#8211; Federal marshals seized disgraced financier Bernard Madoff&#8217;s $7 million Manhattan penthouse on Thursday and forced his wife to move out and leave her possessions behind, including a fur coat she had asked to take with her, an official told The Associated Press.
&#8230;U.S. Marshal Joseph Guccione [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From No Macs In My Life To A 100 Percent Apple Household In Just Five Years&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3813</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3813#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:12:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Computer Geeking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Tech Geeking]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Toys]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[Geek Alert...] 
My life with computers started with a Coleco Adam, and was not auspicious.&#160; It was 1983, back when consumer home computers had just started to appear on the store shelves, not just the back page advertisements of the hobbyist magazines.&#160; Apple, Atari, Commodore, Texas Instruments, Radio Shack and Heathkit all had one you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return Of The Cartoonist</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3802</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:48:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Cartooning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Life happens.&#160; My cartoon pages have been terribly neglected recently and I apologize to those of you who enjoy that part of the site more then this one.&#160;
When I included the political cartoon page, my goal was to do one a week.&#160; I was frustrated then, and still am, by the disinterest of mainstream political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message From A Stonewall Adult, To A Post-Stonewall Kid&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3798</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3798#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Thumping My Pulpit]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Fighting Back]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gay History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For Our Lives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The day after the homos rioted in Greenwich Village, the New York newspapers barely mentioned it.&#160; But that was par for the course back in the 60s.&#160; I was a fifteen year old kid when it happened, growing up in the Maryland suburbs of Washington D.C., and didn&#8217;t hear about the riots until I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroes Of The Culture War #721…Collect The Entire Series!</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3792</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:57:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Republican America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Jackass Chronicles]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Kultar Kampf]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As Jim Burroway remarked last night on Facebook, I had no idea &#34;Hiking the Appalachian Trail&#34; meant that&#8230;
Mark Sanford.&#160; Republican.&#160; Conservative.&#160; Sexual moralist.&#160; Fierce defender of Traditional Marriage.&#160; Protecting innocent children from the homosexual agenda.&#160; Upholding his state&#8217;s reputation as a place decent normal families can come visit&#8230;

Adulterer&#8230;


S.C. Governor demands personnel and procedure changes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heros Of The Culture War #455&#8230;Collect The Entire Series!</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3790</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3790#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Republican America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The American Gutter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Heterosexual Lifestyle]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Jackass Chronicles]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nevada Senator John Ensign.&#160; Republican.&#160; Conservative.&#160; Sexual moralist.&#160; Fierce defender of Traditional Marriage.&#160; Adulterer&#8230;

SEN. JOHN ENSIGN&#8217;S ADMISSION: 																&#8216;Last year I had an affair&#8217;  																	

Calling it &#34;absolutely the worst thing that I&#8217;ve ever done in my life,&#34; U.S. Sen. John Ensign admitted Tuesday that he had an affair with a campaign staffer last year.



It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Fight&#8230;(continued)</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3782</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3782#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 10:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gay History]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For Our Lives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While reading the extract below, keep in mind that the author is talking about a time in this country, the 1950s, when every state in the union outlawed same sex relations among consenting adults.&#160; No prostitution or public sexual conduct was necessary to be convicted of &#34;the crime against nature&#34;.&#160; Gay men and women, caught [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Exactly Caturday</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3780</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Brad DeLong  and Atrios  both get their legs pulled.&#160; You guys should spend more time on the Internet wasting time.
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		<title>Home Again, Home Again, Jiggity-Jig&#8230;Goooood Evening J.R&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3777</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3777#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Road Trip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230;I&#8217;ve been on the road for a few weeks.&#160; And I&#8217;ve not been updating my blog very much.&#160; And there&#8217;s a reason for that and it isn&#8217;t that I&#8217;m not talkative anymore.&#160; I&#8217;ve actually been very active on my Facebook account while on the road.&#160; And the reason for that is there is a handy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ghosts Within</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3774</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 00:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Human Heart]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On SLOG&#8230;&#160; Charles Mudede hits me  where I am still pretty raw&#8230;&#160; Where I guess it will always hurt&#8230;

This morning, around James and 5th, a woman across the street waves at me. She is around 50, black, and wearing a tracksuit. I think it is my mother. She is on her morning walk; she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magic Invisible Hand Of The Free Market And Why You Probably Shouldn&#8217;t Shake It&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3771</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3771#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Koyaanisqatsi]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For America]]></category>

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

A reader writes:

I live in suburban Orange County, California, which is&#160;great place for my family and the weather can&#8217;t be beat.&#160;I grew up near Edinburgh, Scotland and moved to the US in the late &#8217;80s, when the UK was just a mess. Orange County is one of the most conservative, wealthier counties in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heart, Soul, Brain&#8230;These Are The Enemies You Must Defeat To Become A Conservative&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3768</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3768#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Abyss]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The American Gutter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Bully Mindset]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Human Heart]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Right Wing Mindset]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For Our Lives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From our Department of Super-Sized Assholes&#8230;

Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committe held the first-ever hearing on the Uniting American Families Act, which would equalize the status of foreign-born same-sex partners of American citizens. Heterosexual Americans can&#160;earn citizenship for their foreign partners by marrying them. Gays, obviously, cannot do that, effectively making a gay American and his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why We Fight&#8230;(continued)</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3766</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3766#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gratuitous Anti-Gay Hate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Marriage]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Human Gutter]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Kultar Kampf]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Struggle For Our Lives]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Via Box Turtle Bulletin&#8230;

R.I. Senate votes to extend funeral rights to domestic partners

At a hearing earlier this year on one of the stalled bills to allow same-sex marriage, Mark S. Goldberg told a Senate committee about his months-long battle last fall to persuade state authorities to release to him the body of his partner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Need To Keep The World At Arms Length For A While Every Now And Then&#8230;(continued)</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3764</link>
		<comments>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3764#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2009 22:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Crime and Violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Feckless Democrats]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gods And Monsters]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Hate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Republican America]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Abyss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m reading this morning that one of god&#8217;s little right hands shot a doctor to death&#8230;in his church&#8230;during services&#8230;


Kan. abortion doc killed in church; suspect held
WICHITA, Kan. - Dr. George Tiller, who remained one of the nation&#8217;s few providers of late-term abortions through decades of protests and attacks, was shot and killed Sunday in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Light</title>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/3761</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 23:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bruce</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Road Trip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes&#8230;I haven&#8217;t been very talkative here lately.&#160; I&#8217;m on vacation and these days I try to keep the world at arm&#8217;s length when I am trying to rest and relax.&#160; I&#8217;m at my brother&#8217;s house in Oceano for a bit&#8230;then on to San Francisco and the Java One developer&#8217;s conference.&#160; At the moment, I just [...]]]></description>
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