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	<title>The Story So Far...</title>
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		<title>So&#8230;They Gave Me My Keys To The Kingdom, But The Door Wouldn&#8217;t Open&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m here in Disneyworld now.&#160; Turns out they do have Internet in all the rooms, but they charge extra for it.&#160; I should have guessed.&#160; They do everything possible here to make sure you have a great time, but nothing is free.&#160; In fact, most of the extras here are pretty expensive.
There is shopping everywhere, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2316</link>
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		<title>On The Road&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few images from South Of The Border, where I spent the night last night.&#160; I love that place.&#160; Besides the fact that all its motel rooms have their own carports, which make it easy to unpack the car for the night and repack it the next morning, it&#8217;s delightfully pure tacky roadside Americana&#8230;
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		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2313</link>
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		<title>Heading Out&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hitting the road for Orlando in a little bit, so posting will suddenly become very light, probably until next Wednesday.&#160; I have a bunch of stuff in the queue to put up here, including a really nice photo from the Pasadena Anti-Prop 8 protests sent in by a reader.&#160; But I just want to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2311</link>
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		<title>God Hates The Brains&#8230;Er&#8230;That He Gave Us&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with his world is that too many people are getting an education&#8230;

Educated Catholics have sown dissent and confusion in the Church, claims bishop
The Rt Rev Patrick O&#8217;Donoghue, the Bishop of Lancaster, has claimed that    graduates are spreading skepticism and sowing dissent. Instead of following    the Church&#8217;s teaching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2308</link>
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		<title>Still Not Getting It&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Peter Lindsay at the Atlanta Journal editorializes thusly&#8230;

When we think of what governments should legitimately do &#8212;- provide police and fire protection, build roads and lighthouses, defend borders &#8212;- the idea of sanctioning marriage immediately sticks out as an anomaly, all the more so for those who wish to keep government&#8217;s activities to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2297</link>
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		<title>The Disney Experience&#8230;Please Read Our Upteen Pages Of Fine Print&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just curious&#8230;is there any other theme park in the world that spits out seven pages of legalize along with your one page of reservation info?
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		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2295</link>
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		<title>Progress On &#8220;A Coming Out Story&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still not finished with the pencils, but I decided to switch gears for a bit and do the inking on the pages that are finished.&#160; I have three pages inked and scanned in now, and I hope to have the whole pencils and inking part done by Tuesday.&#160; That&#8217;ll just leave the Photoshop part, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2291</link>
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		<title>Just As Well I Didn&#8217;t Go For The Lexus&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Something needs to be done to fix this system&#8230;

Toyota Claims Ownership of Fan Wallpapers
Toyota, one of the biggest car companies in the world, is often a name synonymous with quality. There is even a philosophy of doing business, called &#8220;The Toyota Way&#8221;, which emphasizes that the right result will come from the right process, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2289</link>
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		<title>The Human Nervous System Is A Pretty Damn Impressive Thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Scientific American&#8230;&#160; It&#8217;s not only our brains that make us stand out from the rest of the critters here on planet Earth.&#160; Brains actually receive a lot of pre-processed input.&#160; Turns out our auditory system has a few neat tricks of its own too&#8230;

Why Dogs Don&#8217;t Enjoy Music
Anyone with normal hearing can distinguish between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2282</link>
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		<title>Despair Shopping Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at a local Office Max the other day looking for a few household office supplies, when I noticed that the cordless phone set I bought with my credit card &#34;bonus points&#34;, that sold for ninety bucks at Costco, was selling for one-hundred and forty there.&#160; Wow.&#160; And I hadn&#8217;t had to shell out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2279</link>
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		<title>Signs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via SLOG&#8230;&#160; A sign held up at the East Lansing Michigan protest&#8230;

H8 Is Easy&#8230;Love Takes Courage

I also like the ones I&#8217;m seeing that read &#34;Separation Of Church And Hate&#34;&#8230;
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		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2277</link>
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		<title>The Mormon Amendment To The California Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The more people look at what happened in California, the more the vast scope of Mormon involvement in anti-gay politics, both in terms of money and organizational prowess, becomes known.&#160; In this article in Today&#8217;s New York Times, the bottom line is made perfectly clear: without the vigorous support of the Mormon church, Proposition 8 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2273</link>
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		<title>Reaping What You Have Sown&#8230;(continued)</title>
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And the unsurprises just keep on coming.&#160; You know the old story about how so many right wing anti-gay warriors turn out to have gay children?&#160; Phillys Schlafly?&#160; Alan Keyes?&#160; Charles Socarides, late of NARTH?&#160; Recall how the man who spear headed California Proposition 22, which was the first swing at same-sex marriages back in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2269</link>
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		<title>Think Of Them As The Top Value Stamps Of The Plastic Money Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I only have a couple major revolving credit cards.&#160; I generally don&#8217;t like them, but they&#8217;re handy when traveling and for upgrading the hardware here at Casa del Garrett.&#160; One of my cards has been pushing their &#34;bonus points&#34; schemes at me for years now, and I&#8217;ve never really bothered keeping track of how much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2261</link>
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		<title>Despised Minority In The Land Of The Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think it&#8217;s only marriage they want to take from us, you are sadly mistaken.&#160; Note this exchange in the chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court, buried within a legal debate about monuments in public parks&#8230;


Justices Grapple With Question of Church Monument as Free Speech Issue 
WASHINGTON &#8212; The hypothetical questions were flying at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/2256</link>
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