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		<title>Holiday Discrimination</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/390</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was chastised the other day for using the term &#8220;Merry Christmas&#8221; on the company website. My director strongly recommended that I update the expression to a more all-inclusive one: &#8220;Happy Holidays.&#8221; Of course, I well-understood the reasoning behind this recommendation—I was part of a generation of American children who grew up with the Disney [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meaningless Effigies</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/churchbeat/363</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Peace, Hope, Love, Live, Laugh, Joy, Dream, Cherish. These are the words that consitute the new secular dogma. And it seems well enough that these could be words to live by. Oh Peace is a desirable state of things. And Hope is always good. Love is, by far, a necessity. Laughter, of course, is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;But Mom, we have the money.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/355</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:59:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was out buying a winter hat and some mittens, when I overheard a dispute in the next aisle between a mother and her small child. &#8220;But Mom, we have the money,&#8221; the boy whined.
Now, I have no idea what it was the boy wanted, but what was interesting to me was the way the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illuminating the Inane Discourse on Suicide</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/349</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:28:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every 16 minutes someone in the U.S. dies by suicide. Every 17 minutes someone is left to make sense of it.&#8221; This message was designed by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention to promote it&#8217;s 10th annual Suicide Survivor Day, on Saturday, Nov. 22.
I listen to a radio story about the occasion, an attempt at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contest of Patriotism</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/342</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day proceeding Election Day and there is no time where patriotic sentiment runs higher. A competition arises between presidential candidates as to their national pride. And a great argument is engendered among citizens as to what vote will most benefit the country.
Senator John McCain&#8217;s nationalist slogan &#8220;Country First&#8221; implies invidiously that Senator [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Madness</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/322</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re fast approaching Election Day, but I&#8217;m not rallied behind one candidate or the other. I&#8217;m not struck with anticipation for Nov. 4. Would it be a crime to say I&#8217;m rather ambivalent?
Presidential Candidate John McCain even visited my home town, Durango, Colorado, just a week ago. It was the first time a presidential candidate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Especially Horrifying Halloween Scene</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/325</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Halloween, I was on my way back from a quick motorcycle trip to Mexico. I took a friend on the back seat down to Puerto Peñasco specifically to escape American culture and get a glimpse of El Dia de los Muertos. Our American ignorance proved unfailing. We were surprised or rather disappointed to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Security</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/semantics/303</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A problem that threatens national security is one of the most compelling reasons for the United States Government to take affirmative action.  But let&#8217;s consider what national security for the U.S really entails in a global context.
If you listened to any of the three presidential debates this year, you have heard many areas of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to a Laissez-faire Capitalist</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/body-poltic/298</link>
		<comments>http://socialcomment.org/body-poltic/298#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 18:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialcomment.org/?p=298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A month or so ago I received a call to action email warning against the governments ever- increasing interference with the &#8220;American ideal&#8221; of the free market economy. The author warned that the United States government is ever approaching an &#8220;anti-thesis to freedom&#8221; in the form of communist socialism. The email was specifically criticizing the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Predatory Spiritualism</title>
		<link>http://socialcomment.org/community/119</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:36:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Preston Benson</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://socialcomment.org/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have one friend who takes anti-psychotics. Then I have another friend who is depressed over a breakup with my old roommate who was also chronically depressed. I myself am completely unmedicated and arguably mentally unstable as well. Seeing that we all could use a little more mental health in our lives, my friends and [...]]]></description>
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