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		<title>I&#8217;ve got a bone to pick with Avril Lavigne</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 19:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, as an advocate for victims of sexual assault I have to say something about this. I just do. It&#8217;s Avril&#8217;s song Smile that&#8217;s in question. The lyric I&#8217;m about to address really upsets me. I will admit, however,  that against my better judgment and music taste, I listen to this song and all her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=1086&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who are the Joneses?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>A different kind of movie review: Domestic violence in Water for Elephants</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to see Water for Elephants when it was in theaters knowing nothing about the story. I enjoyed the movie&#8217;s premise, it&#8217;s cinematic stuff (as much as the next average movie-goer), and the 1930&#8242;s era elements. Even Robert Pattinson was bearable &#8211; dare I say likable. Compared to August, Jacob was a downright hero [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=1062&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Injustice News Summary (SINS): June 13-17</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:43:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[eugenics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[India]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jamie Leigh Jones]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas: In Houston this week, the publicized rape of Jamie Leigh Jones finally goes to trial six years after her victimization. Jones says that in 2005, working in Iraq at 20 years old, she was gang raped by several male KBR/Halliburton employees. She had been socializing with the men one evening, and after she accepted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=1041&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Add some swing to your weekend</title>
		<link>http://basiesboots.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/add-some-swing-to-your-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhoyt2</dc:creator>
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		<title>Social Injustice News Summary (SINS): June 6-10</title>
		<link>http://basiesboots.wordpress.com/2011/06/10/social-injustice-news-summary-sins-june-6-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 19:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[army suicide]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York: The New York Times has reported on  a 13-year-old autistic boy, murdered at a care facility for people who are mentally disabled. The facility is the Oswald D. Heck Developmental Center, and young Jonathan Carey was asphyxiated to death. The employee responsible for the death was a former convict who was overworked at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=1009&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NEW weekly feature: Social Injustice News Summary (SINS)</title>
		<link>http://basiesboots.wordpress.com/2011/06/07/new-weekly-feature-social-injustice-news-summary-sins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 21:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhoyt2</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abuse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello all. I&#8217;m here to announce that starting this Friday, I will begin a new weekly feature called SINS. SINS is: Social Justice News Summary. What I&#8217;m going to do is scan major newspapers and publications (as many as I can get to) for stories on social injustices. I will link the stories and summarize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=1005&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What friends have done to me</title>
		<link>http://basiesboots.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/what-friends-have-done-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 19:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhoyt2</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[just because]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Friendship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[just write]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I&#8217;m lucky to say this, but I haven&#8217;t been badly burned by people who call themselves my friends. I haven&#8217;t really been belittled or backstabbed, forgotten or forsaken. For any of you who carry around hurts from friends &#8211; especially people you once deeply cared about &#8211; I&#8217;m sorry. There are people out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=982&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the linguistically challenged *updated*</title>
		<link>http://basiesboots.wordpress.com/2011/05/11/for-the-linguistically-challenged/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 17:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lhoyt2</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bible pronunciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Brian Cox]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re like me, half a semester of beginning college Spanish is about all you can handle. Yes, half a semester. After that it was all Greek to me. So we may not ever be bilingual, and that kind of sucks. It&#8217;s also embarrassing when you&#8217;ve studied so little language, and have such a loose [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=874&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The more tired you are the comfier it becomes, etc.</title>
		<link>http://basiesboots.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/the-more-tired-you-are-the-comfier-it-becomes-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 16:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you noticed how much more comfortable that hard couch, thin futon, or feet-smelling carpet becomes when you&#8217;re very tired? The increase in comfiness is directionally proportional to how glorious it feels to close your eyes. Your body ceases to feel the springs poking into your sides; your senses fail to detect the lights and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basiesboots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7263949&amp;post=952&amp;subd=basiesboots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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