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		<title>Eurovision 2013: Where The Hell Was ABBA?!?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter who we are, we all have our special holidays.  Religious holidays (Yom Kippur, Easter, Ramadan), secular holidays (Thanksgiving), holidays of national identity (Independence Day), these are the days that add a little something extra to our year.  My holiday, my most sacred day, is the day of the Eurovision Song Contest.  For some [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2457&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Ready For Singing!</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/get-ready-for-singing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 02:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eurovision is almost upon us (this Saturday).  For any confused American who is new to the Eurovision experience, I humbly submit my previous Guide to the Perplexed.  A warning, some of the links may have content that has been removed, but I imagine it is very easy to find any of that removed content in [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2453&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Portman, Matt Salmon, and Me</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2013/04/14/will-portman-matt-salmon-and-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 20:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[carol mosley braun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democratic party platform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality legislation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[LGBT]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fear it is a sign of advancing age that I can remember back to 1996 (and the preceding Dark Ages) when the debate over marriage equality began in earnest and only one Senator&#8211;Ron Wyden&#8211;openly spoke out in support.  Two others&#8211;Ted Kennedy and Carol Mosley-Braun&#8211;also supported marriage equality but in a more circumspect manner.  Of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2427&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Windsor, Paul Clement, Legal Ethics, and the Folly of Originalism</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/windsor-paul-clement-legal-ethics-and-the-folly-of-originalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 18:16:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defense of marriage act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DOMA]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you no doubt know, this past week two major gay rights cases were argued before the United States Supreme Court.  The first of these cases, Hollingsworth v. Perry, is the case that challenged Prop 8, California&#8217;s 2008 marriage equality ban.  While there is much to say about Perry, I will save my thoughts until [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2423&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s That Time Again!</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2013/03/07/its-that-time-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:06:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Eurovision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie Tyler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eurovision fever has broken.  Continuing the tradition of sending in faded stars, the UK&#8217;s entry this year will be&#8230; Bonnie Tyler.  Yes, get out your bad jokes and puns now. It&#8217;s actually not a great song (definitely not on the level of Israel&#8217;s awesome entry), but&#8230; BONNIE TYLER!!!!!!!!!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2419&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Random Historical Aside</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/random-historical-aside/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:44:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The President]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1600 pennsylvania avenue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[census]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, while bored, I looked at the 1940 Census, and at some point I became curious as to whether Franklin Delano Roosevelt had an entry.  As it turns out, he and his household were included in the Census and the address was (naturally) 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.  And his occupation was listed as &#8220;President of U.S.A.&#8221; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2411&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FIFA Oscars 2013: ¡Messi! ¡Messi! ¡Messi! ¡Messi!</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2013/01/26/fifa-oscars-2013-messi-messi-messi-messi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 21:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Soccer/Football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abby Wambach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alex Morgan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andres Iniesta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballon d'Or]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruno Bini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cristiano ronaldo]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[franz beckenbauer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jose Mourinho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lionel Messi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle Akers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norio Sasake]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pep Guardiola]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pia Sundhage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Soccer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vicente del bosque]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ah the annual pageant of the Ballon d&#8217;Or.  Every year the spectacle becomes ever more bloated, which means that every year I appreciate it all the more as a camp spectacle, or more accurately, only as a camp spectacle.  Like the real Oscars, the FIFA Oscars are less about the awards themselves and more about [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2316&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolution</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2012/12/27/new-years-resolution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2012 06:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I have fallen behind in my blogging over the past few months. My resolution for the new year (well, one of them) is to write more. Thank you for your loyalty.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=1693&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Question</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/a-question/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Dec 2012 05:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shootings like the horrific and tragic one from two days ago in the elementary school in Connecticut have been happening with alarming frequency as of late.  Of the many questions that come to mind one stands out from among the rest.  Why do we not consider these to be acts of terrorism?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=2308&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Important</title>
		<link>http://tracingthetree.wordpress.com/2012/11/04/whats-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 04:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Solitary Muser</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year is the first that I have ever donated to a political cause, and it has been for the marriage equality campaigns in Maryland, Maine, Washington, and Minnesota. Obviously, marriage equality is extremely important to and personal for me, but it goes well beyond my own personal beliefs and wishes. Same-sex couples are routinely [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tracingthetree.wordpress.com&#038;blog=17483722&#038;post=1912&#038;subd=tracingthetree&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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