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		<title>Why I Am An Atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/18/why-i-am-an-atheist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first conclusive evidence that God, if it ever existed, has abandoned its creation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Balb&#8217;s Best of Ireland</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/17/balbs-best-of-ireland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/17/balbs-best-of-ireland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treats Thalian, Epicurean and Euterpian from the Emerald Isle. ]]></description>
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		<title>Give it to Mikey</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/05/give-it-to-mikey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A photographic salute to Michael Ignatieff's bold and unequivocal response to the Harper Budget. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pop Culture Iconosynchronicity</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/05/pop-culture-iconosynchronicity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Elvis and Che. A curious coincidence that occurred fifty years and one hour ago.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should Funny-Looking Clothing Be Outlawed?</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/04/should-funny-looking-clothing-be-outlawed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/03/04/should-funny-looking-clothing-be-outlawed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's no surprise that the usual terrified Muslim-haters are leaping on the bandwagon to applaud a Quebec school board who kicked a student out of class for wearing a niqab. It was a bit more surprising to see the expulsion celebrated by some "progressives".]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>35</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Consoling Thought For Our Russian Comrades</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/25/a-consoling-thought-for-our-russian-comrades/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/25/a-consoling-thought-for-our-russian-comrades/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Very few people realize that the radiator, one of those humble inventions that literally transforms the world in its own quiet way, was invented by a Russian.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Two-Fer From My Favorite Bloggers</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/21/a-two-fer-from-my-favorite-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/21/a-two-fer-from-my-favorite-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mohawks and My Sharona. Together for the first time in one post. ]]></description>
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		<title>Some Belated Matchmaking for St. Valentory Day</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/16/some-belated-matchmaking-for-st-valentory-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/16/some-belated-matchmaking-for-st-valentory-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:05:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bachelor Number One is a Birther who believes that the Miss American Pageant is secretly run by a coven of Lesbian democrats. Bachelorette Number One thinks Arabs control the BBC and most Africans are ugly. Let me not to the marriage of true minds
admit impediments. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Happy Bursting Day</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/15/happy-bursting-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/15/happy-bursting-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 01:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most cultures treat themselves to a bit of last minute self-indulgence before they begin their period of fasting (think of Pancake Tuesday, just before Lent), but few are as honest about it as the Icelanders.]]></description>
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		<title>A Palm Reading From Palin&#8217;s Future</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/08/a-palm-reading-from-palins-future/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/08/a-palm-reading-from-palins-future/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It's 2013. Sarah Palin has been elected President of the Unites States. In her first foray into international affairs she announces that she's going to resolve this pesky and long standing dispute between North and South Korea. Her adoring supporters revel in her steely resolve, and her self proclaimed willingness to "take the bull by the tail and look it firmly in the eye". ]]></description>
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		<title>Dear CBC Radio In Ottawa</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/05/dear-cbc-radio-in-ottawa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/05/dear-cbc-radio-in-ottawa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humour]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest CBC: without wishing in any way to disparage the anecdotal prowess of your hosts, if I wanted ersatz bonhomie I would be listening to stations that feature "personalities" with names like "Woody" or "the Shark". These are not examples to emulated, CBC: these are object lessons in how horribly wrong radio can go - distilled stupid, boiling iodine rubbed directly into our frayed and quivering early morning minds.   ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Every Once in a While the Mask Slips&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/02/every-once-in-a-while-the-mask-slips/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/02/every-once-in-a-while-the-mask-slips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[...and the real ugly shines through.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Apologia pro absentia sua</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/02/apologia-pro-absentia-sua/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/02/02/apologia-pro-absentia-sua/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I won't be very present here for the next few weeks, for the usual seasonal reasons, and then some. Stay calm. Be brave. And watch for the signs. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Let Them Eat Eskimo Pie!</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/01/31/let-them-eat-eskimo-pie/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/01/31/let-them-eat-eskimo-pie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Canadian Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Inuit]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In which Charles Anthony of the Politic dons his Marie Antoinette ruffles and prescribes a cure for Inuit infant mortality. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Dummy&#8217;s Guide to the Kay-Zerbesias-Shaidle Affair</title>
		<link>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/01/29/the-dummys-guide-to-the-kay-zerbesias-shaidle-affair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.stageleft.info/2010/01/29/the-dummys-guide-to-the-kay-zerbesias-shaidle-affair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:41:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>balbulican</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The worst thing about Harper&#8217;s prorogation is the vacuum it creates in the blogosphere, where any number of unsightly boils have erupted in the absence of anything real to write about. Some loyal writers have contacted the Bunker Research Bureau for a digest of this week&#8217;s Kay-Zerbesias brouhaha that doesn&#8217;t require actually that they visit [...]]]></description>
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