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	<title>Nuts &#038; Mutton</title>
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	<description>Strong opinions on life, love and everything in between</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Thank you, Minnesota &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2009/01/05/thank-you-minnesota/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:10:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
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		<category>Elephant to the South</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; for finally electing Al Franken. Maybe.




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		<title>A new year, a new leaf to turn</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2009/01/04/a-new-year-a-new-leaf-to-turn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2009/01/04/a-new-year-a-new-leaf-to-turn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[


Kate Lord Brown, over at What Kate Did Next, posted the above YouTube video. I&#8217;m hoping she won&#8217;t mind me stealing it from her blog. What Katy Did and What Katy Did Next by Susan Coolidge were among my most-loved books when I was a kid, which is what first drew me to Kate&#8217;s blog. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush&#8217;s last kick at women&#8217;s healthcare on his way out</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/20/bushs-last-kick-at-womens-healthcare-on-his-way-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/20/bushs-last-kick-at-womens-healthcare-on-his-way-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Elephant to the South</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While we&#8217;re all distracted, retching at the official White House Christmas Video, this is what the Bush administration is up to.
Cecile Richards writes in HuffPo:
&#8230; despite the written opposition from more than 200,000 Americans, 150 members of Congress, a bipartisan coalition of governors and attorneys general, the American Medical Association, and women&#8217;s health organizations like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cruiser, RIP</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/20/the-cruiser-rip/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 16:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Ideas</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s NYT carried the obituary of Conor Cruise O&#8217;Brien. Although he was not particularly well-liked in his native Ireland, I always had a soft spot for him, because I loved his books. States of Ireland had a profound effect on my view of Irish nationalism, and his To Katanga and Back was, to my mind, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Iraqi shoe-thrower actually said &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/19/what-the-iraqi-shoe-thrower-actually-said/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/19/what-the-iraqi-shoe-thrower-actually-said/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>General</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;George Bush talks to dogs!&#8221;




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		<title>Bitter Memories III</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/17/bitter-memories-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/17/bitter-memories-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:40:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Ideas</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The diagnosis, when it finally came, was shattering. H had inoperable lung cancer, and the prognosis was six months, maybe twelve. There followed the usual fruitless round of oncologists, radiation experts, chemo experts, etc. The advice was that direct radiation of the tumour, whose location smack dab between both lungs rendered it inoperable, would shrink [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitter memories II</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/16/bitter-memories-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/16/bitter-memories-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Ideas</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About ten years after H had arrived in Canada, her parents both followed; her father with his second wife, and her mother, still bitter about the divorce, alone. I never quite understood why, having more or less abandoned H at the tender age of 6, they had to follow her all the way across the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bitter memories</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/15/bitter-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:26:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Ideas</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago last Thursday, my best friend H entered a hospice to die. Every day for the next three weeks, until she died on January 5th, I travelled up the QEW Highway to spend at least part of every day with her. I had promised her, when she became sick six months before, that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iDiot Savant</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/14/idiot-savant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Music</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I hate grocery shopping with a passion. I look back with longing to the days when my mother would phone the grocer, read him a list of items, and a messenger boy would come puffing over the horizon on his bicycle, an hour or so later. Because I hate shopping so much, I put it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come again?</title>
		<link>http://www.nutsandmutton.com/2008/12/14/come-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 20:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tessa</dc:creator>
		
		<category>Ideas</category>

		<category>O Canada</category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Britain&#8217;s Plain English Campaign, has chosen this year&#8217;s winners of the Golden Bull, awarded for &#8220;the worst examples of written tripe.&#8221;
Among the recipients for 2008 was the financial services department at McGill University, for this priceless piece of gobbledygook:
This cycle will inherently deliver an incessant flow of process and systems assessment, improvement, and communication with [...]]]></description>
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