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		<title>Mind on Fire Video &#8211; Episode Two: Natto Delicious.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/18/mind-on-fire-video-episode-two-natto-delicious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a little Japanese cultural lesson I put together for you, dear viewer. And it&#8217;s only $1.50 for a three pack!]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Gay Legal Rights Upheld</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/04/13/spark-gay-legal-rights-upheld/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nationwide, Christians who refuse to provide services on the basis of gender orientation are losing legal battles.]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Vermont Approves Civil Marriage</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/03/24/spark-vermont-approves-civil-marriage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vermont Senate, finding (correctly) that Civil Unions for gay couples fall short of providing equal rights, voted overwhelmingly to approve Civil Marriage for gay couples. The matter still has to go before the Vermont House (and since I&#8217;m late to this, may already have gone), where it is expected to pass. The margin by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sexual Identity &amp; Faith: Growing Up Gay in a Christian Family</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/25/sexual-identity-faith-growing-up-gay-in-a-christian-family/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 23:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is another lecture that was put on at my school, this time by the ACLU, in response to Prop 8. The California Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments about the Constitutionality of Prop 8 a week from tomorrow. In preparation for that, the local ACLU chapter invited to gay people who grew up in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Pre-Celebrate Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/02/12/spark-pre-celebrate-valentines-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And watch this vid. An MoF favorite singer and an MoF favorite cause: Regina Spektor and No On H8. Do this before V day and enjoy your partnership on Valentine&#8217;s Day guilt-free (and full of hope). Let&#8217;s dedicate this Valentine&#8217;s Day to love.]]></description>
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		<title>Blog for Choice 2009: My Top Pro-Choice Hopes</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/22/blog-for-choice-2009-my-top-pro-choice-hopes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Blog for Choice Day and I encourage everyone to visit the blogroll of bloggers taking part and to visit their blogs, if only for this one post. Also, feel free to revisit my posts from &#8217;07 and &#8217;08. This year&#8217;s topic is &#8220;What is your top pro-choice hope for President Obama and/or the new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creating New Constellations.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/09/creating-new-constellations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:55:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our story begins at the Thinkspace Gallery in Los Angeles&#8217; Silverlake District. There are thousands of galleries in SoCal, but CatGirl and I love this one because it showcases some of our favorite artists, &#8220;low-brow&#8221; creators often featured in the likes of Juxtapoz (which William Gibson apparently reads to cure writer&#8217;s block). When we visited [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Warren&#8217;s not just anti-gay</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2009/01/03/spark-warrens-not-just-anti-gay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But also anti-woman! A true uniter. See here for his creepy-ass discussion of why divorce is worse than your spouse abusing you (hint: because if you divorce, then God gets to abuse you! And whose abuse would you rather?) Ugh. via.]]></description>
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		<title>AWOL</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/11/12/awol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sorry I&#8217;ve not been posting recently, law school has finally caught up with me and consumed my life. I had to cancel the event that makes the holidays bearable for me (a goose-filled gamer fest) because I simply hadn&#8217;t the time to prepare and plan it. One of the prospective attendants told me that, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Does Religion Empower Women?</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/23/spark-does-religion-empower-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 20:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WaPo&#8217;s On Faith asks its panelists Does religion empower women? This is one of the few On Faiths that I&#8217;ll probably read each response to. I&#8217;m looking forward to the Christian/Catholic answer, which I&#8217;ve found generally centers around &#8220;having kids is empowering!!1!&#8221; There is some wonderful evidence for non-child-based empowerment which I&#8217;ve yet to hear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Against Proposition 8</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/16/why-im-against-prop-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[or, xJane gets mushy Yesterday was DH&#8217;s and my 3rd anniversary. It gave me a chance to reflect on love, marriage, and rights. Specifically on why I did (and did not) get married &#038; what that makes me think about the rights of others. I did not get married so that I could bear DH&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prop 8 on Campus 2.0</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/14/prop-8-on-campus-2point0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time, Dean Starr introduced Monte Stewart, of the Marriage Law Foundation (or MLF). I bet I can guess which way this one will go. There were questions but no rebuttal. It was sponsored by the J. Reuben Clark Society, who described its mission as exploring how religious belief influences practice of the law. Proposition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Atheist Morality</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/spark-atheist-morality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/spark-atheist-morality/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a beautiful story from a favorite blogger, discussing why she gives money to beggars on the street. To religionists who say that morality may only come from the Divine, I give you this story. Love for fellow man need not be based in religion. This is a simple story that affected one person&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Still Alive</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/13/music-monday-still-alive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 16:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve held off for as long as I could bear to, but it is now time to release this upon the MoF community. From the guy who brought us the classic office zombie song, Re: Your Brains and the classy May Day song, First of May, comes the geek classic Still Alive, the end-credits song [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: The A-B-Cs of SciFi</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/09/spark-the-a-b-cs-of-scifi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/09/spark-the-a-b-cs-of-scifi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here. A little heavy on the Star Trek and Star Wars, but still awesome. And honestly, what else is Q for but&#8230;Q?]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: India plans to incentivize female births</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/spark-india-plans-to-incentivize-female-births/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/spark-india-plans-to-incentivize-female-births/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/05/spark-india-plans-to-incentivize-female-births/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By giving a girl&#8217;s family [...] financial benefits worth around $5,000, including health insurance, until she is 18, if she is sent to school and remains unmarried.I think this is a great idea, but I&#8217;m sure that the anti-feminists will spin it (they think that girls are more valuable than boys!!!). I also find it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: It&#8217;s Not Terrorism When We Do It</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/04/spark-its-not-terrorism-when-we-do-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/10/04/spark-its-not-terrorism-when-we-do-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=1248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An act of not-hate perpetrated against Muslim children by white men. via. and. UPDATE: others are picking up on this, but still no MSM]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: We Haven&#8217;t Linked to Cracked.com in a While</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/19/spark-we-havent-linked-to-crackedcom-in-a-while/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/19/spark-we-havent-linked-to-crackedcom-in-a-while/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 18:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/19/spark-we-havent-linked-to-crackedcom-in-a-while/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So here you go: &#8220;Orson Scott Card Wants YOU (To Rise Up Against The Gay Menace). Including such gems as To those to of you who haven’t read Ender’s Game by Orson Scott card, warning: two spoilers follow. Spoiler 1: Your childhood was incomplete. and You’ve spent your life imagining diverse races and cultures, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Microfinance: Food for Thought</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/09/18/microfinance-food-for-thought/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Microfinance is the lending and borrowing of (relatively) small amounts of money. Generally, the lender is a (relatively) rich Westerner and the borrower a poor citizen of a developing country. And I don&#8217;t mean relatively poor; I mean abject poverty, where $25 to buy a goat means the difference between being able to feed your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spark: Lower-Income Voters</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/26/spark-lower-income-voters/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2008/08/26/spark-lower-income-voters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Salon, for their series &#8220;Pinched: Tales from an Economic Downturn&#8221;, comes Our Cupboard Was Bare, an article that brings focus to the fellow Americans more adversely affected by the non-recession that we&#8217;re currently experiencing.]]></description>
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