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  <title>Life with Poncho</title>
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  <description>A reflection on life and events, as the spirit moves me</description>   
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    <title>Weighing in on the Financial Bail-out</title>
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    <description>A graphic look at seven hundred thousand million dollars </description>
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    <title>Me and My Blokehood</title>
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    <description>Oh, that we had been properly introduced from the beginning.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Grateful for Gratitude</title>
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    <description>From &apos;Bubba&apos;s Book of Prayers&apos;</description>
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    <title>He just wanted a job</title>
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    <description>Watching the man smirk and laugh about the prospect of keeping a legal battle going on for years, I feel resentment poking at my insides.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Without a prayer: Part I</title>
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    <description>I&apos;ve known a number of people who didn&apos;t have a prayer. They still don&apos;t, as far as I know, but it doesn&apos;t bother them.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Parsing &apos;Faggot!&apos;</title>
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    <description>Where to begin when a reader yells, &quot;Faggot!&quot; in a curt e-mail?.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Bitter, or stupid?</title>
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    <description>Dear Middle American, Pro-Gun, Anti-Gay Voter: If you&apos;re not bitter, you&apos;re a chump.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>The good question </title>
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    <description>Leave it to the press to ask a useless question.A CNN/Essence Magazine/Opinion Research Corp. poll asked, &quot;Is the United States of America ready for a black president?&quot;	</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Just say no</title>
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    <description>A message to Democratic Congressional leaders: No.As you contemplate ways to help homeowners stressed to the financial breaking point by their bad decisions, just say no, you can&apos;t do it.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Obama&apos;s bridge to Wright</title>
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    <description>The revelations about presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama&apos;s former pastor have convinced me: No way would I vote for Rev. Jeremiah Wright for president.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>In memoriam</title>
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    <description>A sad report on the news today: a roadside bomb took four more American lives in Iraq, bringing the total number of deaths in that conflict to 4,000.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>A Christian nation?</title>
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    <description>According to a recent poll, 65 percent of Americans think the country&apos;s Founding Fathers intended that the United States would be a Christian nation.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Let race matter</title>
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    <description>I thought it was funny when people took issue with Geraldine Ferraro, a fund-raiser for Sen. Hillary Clinton&apos;s presidential campaign, for saying that Sen. Barack Obama would not be where he was in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination were it not for his skin color.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>The holy truth</title>
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    <description>Heaven has been undone - and by a bishop, no less!</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>The stuff of which television is made</title>
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    <description>Seven pounds of compacted fecal matter - now that&apos;s vindication.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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    <title>Grateful for a well-fed soul</title>
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    <description>Surfeit, gluttony, carbohydrate-induced euphoria - the season of gratitude is upon us once more.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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