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		<title>Synapse Snap</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/synapse-snap-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The connection between my brain and mouth&#8230;the one that lets you think a thought and not have it immediately come flying out of your mouth&#8230;does not always shoot on all cylinders.  I know&#8230;the f-bomb at the pulpit was a strong indicator of this problem.  There have been other incidents though&#8230;not all surrounding ceremonial events.  Yesterday [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=970&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Warning:  The Hell Express</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 14:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret to those close to me that there is a good chance I&#8217;m on the hell express. Mostly I try to live a good life, be kind and generous of spirit and all that stuff&#8230;but every now and then, extreme moments of the inappropriate, snarky and irreverent sneak in (not to mention my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=898&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>California dreaming</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/california-dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Ramblings & Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[California budget]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cuts to services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[felons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental health services]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the publicity surrounding California&#8217;s messed up budget, etc, it&#8217;s no surprise I&#8217;ve been thinking about life in California.  Well specifically, I&#8217;ve been thinking about whether I want to keep living in California.  As bad as it is right now, I think it&#8217;s really only going to get worse.  About 20,000 felons are going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=883&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deflector Shields Up</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/deflector-shields-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cellist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cellos]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Edward Kennedy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are times when I know I&#8217;m inappropriate&#8230;.too many times really to spell them all out.  In particular, I know I have a largely inappropriate sense of humor&#8230;some would say warped.  While that&#8217;s always been the case, the situation has been exacerbated by my job, in which I have to read about some pretty horrible [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=867&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eine Kleine Schuhmagik &#8211; aka ShoeJu</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/eine-kleine-schuhmagik-aka-shoeju/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Funny Pages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[billy mays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a lucky person.  That streak of good luck started when I was born on a Friday the 13th, combined with the overall luck of the Irish, has resulted in some powerful good luck over the last (too many to mention) years.  On occassion, I have &#8220;shared&#8221; my good fortune with friends&#8230;.just by sending them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=834&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clergy &amp; Red Shoes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Funny Pages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may or may not be aware of my shoe “thing.” I love shoes…and I have indulged my shoe “thing” far too often. I especially enjoy the more “adventurous&#8221; shoes…like my purple snakeskin sling back pointy toed pumps. (What? Don’t act like you don’t know what that is) &#8230;.or my strappy t-strap jeweled sandals with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=788&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Post-Post America</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/a-post-post-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Cosby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black families]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[father's day]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the election cycle, in my seemingly never-ending quest to gather information, I heard ad naseum about Obama being post-racial.   &#8220;Post&#8221; became the prefix du jour.  Post-racial, post-partisan (seriously&#8230;google post-partisan and you&#8217;ll be amazed at how many post-partisan hits you get), post-feminist, post-political, post-American (thanks Fareed Zakaria), post-election, post-mortem, post-Bush, post-9/11, post-rational (thank you Rachel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=654&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Battle scars</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/battle-scars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 03:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Ramblings & Rants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geraldine Ferraro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gloria Steinem]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking a lot about Hillary Clinton.  Well, that&#8217;s not really right.  I&#8217;ve been thinking about gender and race in politics.  Given the past election, that&#8217;s neither surprising or unique. I&#8217;m happy Barack Obama won the election (ok, beyond happy really but that&#8217;s not the point here).  In fact, I had picked him and supported [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=502&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Apropos of nothing</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/apropos-of-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Ramblings & Rants]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So a few weeks ago, I was on the phone with my friend Kirsten and the tv was on but muted.  So, I see this crazy advertisement playing it&#8217;s for a &#8220;Snuggie&#8220;&#8230;they call it a blanket with sleeves&#8230;.I call it a backwards robe.  I&#8217;m telling her about it and laughing because the ad is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=727&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punk&#8217;d by the Plumber</title>
		<link>http://ryansrant.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/punkd-by-the-plumber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:28:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sam Wurzlebacher]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Seriously?  Are we being Punk&#8217;d?  Where&#8217;s Ashton Kutcher?  Where&#8217;s Allen Funt?  (Throwin&#8217; in the candid camera reference for the crowd that thinks a punk is a hoodlum or a musical genre.)  &#8216;Cause I really don&#8217;t think this could be real. For those of you that don&#8217;t know, pjtv.com (which yes, is run by Pajamas Media&#8230;you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ryansrant.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5051047&amp;post=680&amp;subd=ryansrant&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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