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		<title>Learning Pains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, was the first time I actually got to BE a producer. Funny. I considered myself one for a couple of months, never stopping to marvel at a stroke of luck.
And I think I had done surprisingly well, considering my abysmal lack of experience. No, not abysmal. Not sure the linguists among us would agree, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Are Telling Us We Can&#8217;t.  We say, Just Ask Barack Obama!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[January 20th.  It was a quiet afternoon, as most afternoons in Louisville, KY are.  Of course, this one was special.
Because a few hundred miles away in a city that is never quiet &#8212; where the wheeling and the dealing are known to go long LONG into the night, and the paperwork keeps churning like butter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Never So Cut and Dried!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know how you have a painful breakup and you really REALLY feel that the other person has hurt you?  You know how you wish you could just go Lorena Bobbitt on their ass?
Well, Lorena Bobbitt doesn&#8217;t ever have to wish that.  She HAD gone and done what most of us can only dream about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To Kill or Not to Kill &#8212; Pigs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[India allows cows to roam free.  Ancient Egyptians buried dishes, crocodiles, and wives to ease the passing of a head of house.  And Jews and Muslims have tasty imaginative diets.  The problem for a dedicated pork cutlets aficionado like myself, these diets very much do NOT include anything originating in a pig pen.
Which, in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PETA and Michael Vick, a Match Made in Hell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are a true follower of the PETA dictums, right now, in addition to the more&#8230; ah traditional constraints like no meat, no poultry, no fish, no wool, no leather, no circuses, no zoos, no animal research, no pets, no seeing eye dogs, no goats mowing Google lawns (at least, without proper veterinary care [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annointedfig.com/peta-and-michael-vick-a-match-made-in-hell/</link>
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		<title>Alphabet And Sex Ed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son&#8217;s birthday was yesterday and now, he is all of 16 &#8212; months, that is.  Yay!  Still can&#8217;t believe it.
And that in about 8 months, also, makes him eligible to start reading the new book Where Did I Really Come From by Narelle Wickham just rereleased in Australia.  First penned in the 1990&#8217;s, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I See Dead People</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it about the Catholic Church that turns perfectly normal men into pedophiles?  Sexual deprivation?  That&#8217;s it?  Doesn&#8217;t speak highly of our species if not getting any is all it takes to have us start raping young boys or girls supposedly in both our spiritual and physical care.
And what is it, for that matter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Much Ado About Nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our police is there to really weed out&#8230;er, weed users.  And if it happens to waste a year of man-hours out of the bleeding pockets of Chicago municipal coffers (that these days is making up for a burgeoning shortfall by upkeeping the prohibitive employee tax and raising Downtown parking prices to a whooping $20 or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annointedfig.com/much-ado-about-nothing/</link>
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		<title>HIV and Nadja Benaissa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you do if you discover you have HIV?
a) Cry
b) Take a retest
c) Have unprotected sex with partners you do not make aware of your condition
d) None of the above
e) All of the above
If are are Nadja Benaissa, a German singer, songwriter, sometime actress, and a participant in the prestigious Eurovision tournament 2 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.annointedfig.com/hiv-and-nadja-benaissa/</link>
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		<title>Nature vs. Nurture vs. Torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, you thought your parents were too strict?
Were you grounded when you had brought home an &#8220;F&#8221;?  Did you have to go to bed without dessert if you didn&#8217;t clean your hamster cage?  Were you not allowed to watch a late-night showing of a Freddy Krueger flick on a school night?
Don&#8217;t know about you, but [...]]]></description>
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