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		<title>Can I get an amen?</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/can-i-get-an-amen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Says Jonathan Golob:
As individuals, we&#8217;re screwed under either governmental or corporate dominance. Owning a shitload of guns won&#8217;t resolve this. The goal of a lot of liberal policymaking is the balance corporate power with governmental power—allowing both to be trimmed and molded into something more functional and humane in the process. The point isn&#8217;t a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=890&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something about outrage</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/something-about-outrage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editors of The New York Times remind:
There is no firm national count of the number of untested rape kits. But last March, Human Rights Watch found more than 12,500 untested rape kits in the Los Angeles area alone. The Houston Police Department recently found at least 4,000 untested rape kits in storage. Detroit’s backlog [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=887&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Week — Seijas on equality</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/quote-of-the-week-%e2%80%94-seijas-on-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Reuters:
 &#8220;The law should treat everyone with the same respect according to their singularities, without the need to understand or regulate them.&#8220;
—Judge Gabrielle Seijas

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		<title>Just &#8230; because</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/just-because/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 03:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ll just quote Dave Segal over at LineOut:
But, you know, Scrotum Poles. Well, it got me to blog about them 30 years after their &#8220;heyday,&#8221; so respect to them.
See, the thing is that I know someday I&#8217;m going to make a joke involving the phrase &#8220;scrotum poles&#8221;, and this way it will be easier [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=878&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marriage, prom, and victory &#8230;.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrea Grimes brings us the latest from the gay fray:
​Not only do the gays and lesbians these days think they have the right to do things like get married and raise a family, they are now demanding to dance in the same rooms as their peers! Fucking ridiculous. 
Naturally, when a lesbian high school couple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=874&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Metro-what?  Tell me you&#8217;re &#8230; you&#8217;re not? Damn.</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/metro-what-tell-me-youre-youre-not-damn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who know me are aware that I stand somewhat at odds with traditional masculine stereotypes in American culture.  Thankfully, this story comes to us from overseas.  Reuters says:
Men have become so openly affectionate with each other using mobile technology they&#8217;ve taken to signing off text messages to male friends with a kiss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=870&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A nostalgic trip back to the Heavy Metal Wars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, how people need to be offended.  Anyway, I found this while looking up a reference to the time Ozzy pissed on the Alamo.  One Terry Watkins apparently penned this screed during Sharon Osbourne&#8217;s battle with cancer (ca. 2002-03):
One of the hottest celebrities today is the vulgar, violent and demonic Ozzy Osbourne. MTV [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=867&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Family Guy question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A random Family Guy question.
Recently I&#8217;ve been going back and watching as many of the Family Guy episodes I&#8217;ve missed as possible.  And now I find myself scrambling to pick up a joke that blew right by me the first time because my viewing habit had grown, for various reasons, somewhat spotty.
I&#8217;m pulling up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=863&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You make me feel like a natural woman?</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/you-make-me-feel-like-a-natural-woman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via BBC:
A woman who was banned from making loud noises during sex has lost an appeal against her conviction.
Caroline and Steve Cartwright&#8217;s love-making was described as &#8220;murder&#8221; and &#8220;unnatural&#8221; at Newcastle Crown Court.
Neighbours, the local postman and a woman taking her child to school complained about the noise.
Mrs Cartwright, 48, from Washington on Wearside, lost [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=856&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>That evil bastard: Steel on The Sun on Brown</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/that-evil-bastard-steel-on-the-sun-on-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Steel takes on the British press—or, more specifically, The Sun, a prominent, Murdoch-owned tabloid—for its efforts to bring down Prime Minister Gordon Brown:
You can forgive Mrs Janes anything, given the circumstances, but the Sun has made a front-page issue of this spelling business, claiming his tatty handwriting proves his lack of concern for soldiers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bdhilling.wordpress.com&blog=1412776&post=852&subd=bdhilling&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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