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		<title>Fallbrookisms 02 September 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2010 11:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On life — at Café des Artistes – How’re you doing? – Well, my mom died, but other than that, everything’s okay. On outrage — via texting – I’m incensed and I don’t even know how to spell it! – Well, you smell aromatic and you can spell. On gays in...<br/>
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		<title>Terms of Venery</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[An Exaltation of Larks, by James Lipton, has long been a Gressitt family favorite. The collection of traditional terms of venery, or collective nouns — a pride of lions, a damning of jurors — has led to countless hours well spent on inventing our...<br/>
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		<title>From Women’s Equality Day to Vagina Spray</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kbgressitt</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Kit-Bacon Gressitt I was preparing for my little ritual last week, the one I practice every August 26, Women’s Equality Day, to celebrate our right to vote. … Well, not really to celebrate, but to at least recognize the Constitution’s 19th...<br/>
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		<title>Fallbrookisms 26 August 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[At Café des Artistes – We had a shop teacher named Mr. Smallwood – And nobody likes small wood. I don’t eat food. It gets in the way of my alcoholism. – Want some salami? – Not yet. I’m not ready for mushed-together meat. On writing You should start...<br/>
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		<title>My Date With Newt Gingrich</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:04:51 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Newt Gingrich, on a campaign in search of a presidency, put his foot in his mouth recently, comparing the proposed Muslim community center in New York to Nazis putting a sign next to the Holocaust Museum; meanwhile, he was...<br/>
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		<title>Fallbrookisms 19 August 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[On writing endings: Sometimes life is like the movies. The End!               – Elise Daughter: I found Jesus, Mom. I found him. He was lost, or perhaps misplaced, but I found him! Mother: Where? Daughter: I found him underneath the passenger seat...<br/>
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		<title>The American People Aren’t Furious!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 08:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kbgressitt</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Kit-Bacon Gressitt It all started with our wedding: the be-medaled uniforms on one side, the prochoice buttons on the other. … Nope, nope, it started with the intervention, the dinner at which my friends planned to confront the self-delusional...<br/>
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		<title>BOOK REVIEW: The Curious Journeys of Mary Roach</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Kit-Bacon Gressitt Have you ever wondered just what happened to Great Aunt Sadie’s spleen after she donated her body to science, or how a long-gone loved one’s ectoplasm diffuses through a spiritualist, or who first championed the clitoris? Then...<br/>
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		<title>Fallbrookisms 12 August 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 08:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Fallbrook&#8217;s First Motor Fest She liked the Don&#8217;t Be Gaycist bumper sticker Getting funky in Village Square Reading material for the down times And Michael pitching wine!<br/>
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		<title>Brian Brown and the Great Marriage Non Sequitur</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Kit-Bacon Gressitt On Wednesday 04 August 2010, California Federal Court Judge Vaughn Walker ruled that Proposition 8 is unconstitutional. He determined that the ballot measure, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman, violates...<br/>
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