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	<title>Acid Test &#187; politics meets personal</title>
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	<description>Just another soapbox surfer</description>
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		<title>I once bought a house</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/11/i-once-bought-a-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buying a house is a hugely intimidating process.  At least it was for me.  It was more expensive than what I make in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insurance companies cause global warming</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/11/insurance-companies-cause-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/11/insurance-companies-cause-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously.  I&#8217;m beginning to think they&#8217;re the source of all evil.  Think about it.  Insurance companies are at the heart of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Government (Not) At Work</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/10/our-government-not-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/10/our-government-not-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 22:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although, really, I guess that would depend on how you define their work.  Let me put it this way: the government is continuing not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conflating Morality and Disgust is Immoral: Haidt and the Happiness Hypothesis</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/conflating-morality-and-disgust-is-immoral-haidt-and-the-happiness-hypothesis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/conflating-morality-and-disgust-is-immoral-haidt-and-the-happiness-hypothesis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Liberals, says Haidt, don&#8217;t understand morality.  They think it&#8217;s only about fairness, something he thinks operates between individuals.  Conservatives see the bigger picture, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nukes can never be the answer</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/nukes-can-never-be-the-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/nukes-can-never-be-the-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One bizarre effect of global warming is how it&#8217;s become a reason to make the problems worse. 
Global warming is so bad, that we have [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stem Cells and Ethics</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/stem-cells-and-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/09/stem-cells-and-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 20:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard it all by now.  &#8220;Stem cells will cure everything.&#8221;  &#8220;Stem cells kill embryos.&#8221;  &#8220;Stem cells are overrated.&#8221;  We hear [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Profits cost us cures</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/profits-cost-us-cures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:48:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[medicine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know nobody here needs convincing that the free market doesn&#8217;t provide the best medical care for all.  But it&#8217;s not just the care [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Beggars the Imagination (and the Republic)</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/beggars-the-imagination-and-the-republic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/beggars-the-imagination-and-the-republic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 20:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I find this unbelievable.  Washington Post, Aug. 15, In High Court Filing, It&#8217;s U. S. vs. Investors.  Whatever happened to Bubble Boy&#8217;s great [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about the power, stupid</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/08/its-about-the-power-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iraq, Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Lilla, professor at Columbia University, has written a long article&#8220;The Politics of God&#8221; in the Aug. 19, 2007, NYTimes.  Shorter Lilla: people who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Female Genital Mutilation</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/female-genital-mutilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/07/female-genital-mutilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:46:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gender]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s gone by other names, primarily female circumscision, as if it was nothing more than the male equivalent of removing the foreskin.  It&#8217;s supposedly [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Molly Ivins: Now laughing in the great beyond</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/02/molly-ivins-now-laughing-in-the-great-beyond/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2007/02/molly-ivins-now-laughing-in-the-great-beyond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 15:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Thinking out loud]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I miss her.  I still miss her.  I didn&#8217;t know her, and yet I did.  You know some of a person by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The government is not just in Washington</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/08/government-is-not-just-in-washington/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/08/government-is-not-just-in-washington/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2006 20:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Cheney Administration&#8217;s policies affect all of us all the time.  I know that.  But it feels different when it&#8217;s personal.
I lead a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Immigrants in these United States</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/04/immigrants-in-these-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/04/immigrants-in-these-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 05:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am an immigrant.  I grew up bilingual.  My grandmother learned English in her fifties, and always spoke with one of those formidable [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>My not-so-excellent cell phone adventure</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/01/my-not-so-excellent-cell-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2006/01/my-not-so-excellent-cell-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2006 04:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before somebody finds out, I&#8217;ll say it up front: I hate phones.  I hate the way they ring at you and make you leap [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The difference between Us and Them</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/08/difference-between-us-and-them/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/08/difference-between-us-and-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After terrorist bombings, it is required to stress how evil it is to target civilians, a barbarism without parallel in the modern world.
Yes, it is [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Shoot Me Now: &#8220;Health Care&#8221; in the new millenium</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/04/shoot-me-now-health-care-in-new/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2005/04/shoot-me-now-health-care-in-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2005 17:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[A medical episode, which started as an eye emergency, and taught me more about getting the treatment than I wanted to know.]
The trouble started innocently [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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