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		<title>however do you want me. however do you need me.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/09/06/however-do-you-want-me-however-do-you-need-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I took the summer off from blogging and have been on my reinvention grind. This economy has been various &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/09/06/however-do-you-want-me-however-do-you-need-me/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1364&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dancebreak.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/05/18/dancebreak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but lately, everything is coming up &#8217;80s for me. 1980s. Bad economy, the ghost of &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/05/18/dancebreak/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1351&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>against appropriation, cont.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/03/02/against-appropriation-cont/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still don&#8217;t have an answer to the dilemma of influence versus appropriation without attribution.  While I was re-reading Rene &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/03/02/against-appropriation-cont/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1306&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>against appropriation.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/02/25/against-appropriation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:24:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One would categorize this situation as a thorny issue: Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/02/25/against-appropriation/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1273&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Martin Luther King on Extremism.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/17/martin-luther-king-on-extremism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 04:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[via Jay Smooth. YouTube &#8211; Martin Luther King on Extremism.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1196&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>same, same. but different.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/10/same-same-but-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 16:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about Saturday&#8217;s shooting in Tuscon, I remembered an Adam Gopnik piece from the 2007 New Yorker in the wake &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/10/same-same-but-different/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1191&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>holding us back.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/09/holding-us-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 22:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch a lot of television. In fact, most of my television consumption these days is completely over the &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/09/holding-us-back/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1181&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on huck finn.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/06/on-huck-finn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tayari Jones zeroes in on my feelings on the subject: The revisions to &#8220;Huckleberry Finn&#8221; have been described as &#8220;politically &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/06/on-huck-finn/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1178&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1.1.11</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/02/1-1-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One. This year is a prime number. And according to this guy, the sum of 11 consecutive prime numbers: The &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/01/02/1-1-11/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1159&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>what narcissism means to me&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/11/03/what-narcissism-means-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once I got through my haze of disappointment with my home state of Wisconsin over Feingold&#8217;s defeat, I began reading &#8230;<p><a href="http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/11/03/what-narcissism-means-to-me/">Continue reading &#187;</a></p><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1096&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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