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	<title><![CDATA[Laura's Anti - Blog]]></title>
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	<description><![CDATA[Welcome to my online diary, enjoy your stay!]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[the politics of mopes]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/23176/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[I will be the first to admit that I'm a political mope  My father was one of those guys who knew every senator and representative, canvassed for his local favorites, and treated...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Deep thoughts at year-end '07]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/22604/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[We're in the final days of 2007, and it's as good at time as any to post some deep thoughts that have been banging around in my head lately.  First of all, I'm glad this year is...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:36:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[I disgust myself]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/21924/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no doubt about it. I have the laziest and most reprehensible blog in all of Internetia.   The last post was last year at this time. I suppose it's just a seasonal thing...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[should we "fuggedaboutit"?]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/18095/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[So there's a big flap over by a Chicago suburban middle school about the kids putting on a Mafia farce play. Seems the Sons of Italy are calling for a formal protest of the...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Nov 2006 20:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[This I believe...]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/18078/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Inspired by the This I Believe series on NPR, I wrote this.  &nbsp;  &nbsp;  As an Italian-American raised working-class Catholic in the 1960s, I'm genetically and socially...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[post-election comments]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/18048/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, thank God the 2006 midterm elections are over. All those snarky and negative TV/radio ads have gotten to be quite boring. I miss the days when candidates could run an ad...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Nov 2006 16:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[my latest musical boondoggle]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/15747/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[OK, so I don't write much on this blog anymore.&nbsp; It's not very interesting, anyhow, and I've kinda subliminated my opinions, heck, nobody listens anyhow, right?  But I...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 May 2006 00:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[the power of YES]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/9772/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[it's a tagline from some lame commercial, but it's true.  Everywhere you turn, all you hear is NO.&nbsp; It's impossible, we can't do this, it would never work, that just can't...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What they will play in the nursing home...]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/9758/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[It occurred to me today that when Our Generation is dead, music like the Beatles will be played on the PA in nursing homes, just the way Glenn Miller is played for today's old...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2005 16:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Little Heroes]]></title>
		<link>http://lmtoops.bravejournal.com/entry/6705/</link>
		<description><![CDATA[My writing pal Robbo is giving me writing assignments in the hopes of generating some poetry.&nbsp; To get the ball rolling, he asked me to come up with an idea of who or what...]]></description>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2004 23:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
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