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		<title>Forty Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He could have faced five years in prison, or the rest of his life. On Friday, a judge sentenced him to 40 years. If he serves the whole sentence, he will be 83 years old when he gets out. A jury found Jon Thomas Ford guilty of murder Friday in the strangulation of Dana Clair [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pinterest is going to change the world. At a quantum level. Or something. I really don’t know.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 18:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t get Pinterest. I&#8217;m not going to deny that many, many people seem to love it. It seems to primarily appeal to women, so (a) I can accept that perhaps I am just demographically excluded, and (b) I&#8217;m not going to overly bemoan something that millions of people seem to enjoy so much. Its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You have until Thursday before Google gets all up in your stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone using any sort of Google product has now had ample opportunity to not read the terms of its new &#8220;unified privacy policy,&#8221; which will align the various privacy policies of its many different services (searches, YouTube, Gmail, secretly searching for LOLcats saying dirty words, etc.) As of March 1, 2012, the new policy will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here’s a birther who doesn’t even pretend not to be racist</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2012 05:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Gordon Warren Epperly of Juneau, Alaska. He has found a novel way to challenge Obama&#8217;s place on the 2012 presidential ballot. Considering the absolute and utter smackdown that birther lawsuits took in Georgia recently, it would seem a new set of tactics is necessary (giving up and admitting it&#8217;s not only a lost cause, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes it’s personal</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Criminal Law]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may not be the most well-thought-out post I&#8217;ve ever written. I never really intended this blog to be a place for personal thoughts, but sometimes the personal and the legal intersect. I have spent the past few weeks trying to ignore a criminal trial going on down in San Antonio, because I did not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new era of animal welfare advocacy is coming. Oh is it ever coming…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animal Welfare]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pun most definitely intended. That magical day is soon approaching, dear reader(s). They day we have been eagerly awaiting since last summer. The day that will change everything. I&#8217;m talking, of course, about the launch of PETA&#8217;s porn site (h/t Ecorazzi). Right now it&#8217;s just a splash page with two possibly-naked models staring at you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kindness of Strangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Angy Rivera came to the United States from Colombia when she was three years old. Today, she is a 21 year-old criminology student at John Jay College in Manhattan. She is also an undocumented immigrant. People who lack empathy might call her an &#8220;illegal alien.&#8221; Like so many in America today, she cannot afford college [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Many pets go missing in big Austin storm</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If it&#8217;s not a drought in Austin, it&#8217;s something else. Now the dogs and cats need our help. Strong January storm floods animal shelter with lost pets 38 dogs, cats found; waiting to be claimed Following one of the worst rain storms to hit the Austin area in five years the Austin Animal Center received [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Joe Paterno and Bernie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian band Lowest of the Low released a song in 1991 called &#8220;So Long Bernie.&#8221; I discovered the band through Pandora a couple of years ago, and this song stuck with me. It hides a very dark theme under a rather jangly rock beat, which may be what makes it so haunting. The video [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A (Very) Few Thoughts on Positive Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Wells</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not about to go into some long-winded thesis on legal theory, but I have always found the question of &#8220;positive&#8221; versus &#8220;negative&#8221; rights very interesting. Put very simply, negative rights involve the right of freedom from interference in something, e.g. freedom of speech or religion, which really means the right to speak or practice [...]]]></description>
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