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		<title>Justin Bieber: Slipping</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you have to say you are, you aren&#8217;t.&#8221;  &#8211; Margaret Thatcher You know, I&#8217;m really not one to follow celebrity news, but once in a while a celebrity will do something so outrageous &#8211; or a series of such outrageous things &#8211; that the headlines are just unavoidable.  Yes, Justin Bieber is back, and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formingthethread.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34221391&#038;post=3772&#038;subd=formingthethread&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Joan Larsen Happiness is like a butterfly:  the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and softly sit on your shoulder.  Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)   Writing a heartfelt, personal letter to a friend &#8212; so dear that I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formingthethread.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34221391&#038;post=3758&#038;subd=formingthethread&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But I Can Dream, Can&#8217;t I?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 04:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Color of Lila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lauriate Roly ponders:  is all that we see and seem but a dream within a dream? By Lauriate Roly I knew it would never happen, but each time I bought a ticket, I thought about it. Even if the whole thing came about as it would in my daydreams, I knew it wasn’t possible because [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formingthethread.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34221391&#038;post=3746&#038;subd=formingthethread&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 04:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Color of Lila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is there no sitcom about bumbling terrorists and counterterrorism agents? Last Thursday, I wrote about the rather cartoonish arrest of Ryan Fogle in Moscow.  To illustrate that cartoonishness, I settled on Maxwell Smart from the 1960s sitcom Get Smart, but I also ran across this image of Boris and Natasha with a big bomb [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formingthethread.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34221391&#038;post=3733&#038;subd=formingthethread&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 04:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever notice just how wrong our authorities get things?  Specifically, I have been noticing the complete, nonsensical, total disconnect of any kind of reason or consistency between &#8220;school violence&#8221; and &#8220;bullying.&#8221;   We have been conditioned lately to think of &#8220;school violence&#8221; as Columbine or Sandy Hook (never mind that Adam Lanza was not a student).  [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=formingthethread.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34221391&#038;post=3716&#038;subd=formingthethread&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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