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		<title>radio silence.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/11/18/radio-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m burned out from the news. Too much salt, not enough sweet. I&#8217;m trying to catch up yet find myself sinking deep into a malaise, my eyes flood with too much information. It&#8217;s difficult for me to focus on a single item long enough to concentrate. I read somewhere that the internet is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1134&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>scattered thoughts on moderation and restoring sanity.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/10/31/scattered-thoughts-on-moderation-and-restoring-sanity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:37:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had every intention of going to DC for the Rally to Restore Sanity. The spectacle and clarion call, the gathering of moderates was seductive. However, in typical moderate fashion, I didn&#8217;t figure out a plan to get there. By the time I realized I should have booked a bus ticket on MegaBus or Bolt, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=1071&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>bookmarks.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/02/09/bookmarks-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been writing and thinking a lot about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some of you know this from an earlier post. As a result, my reading list is unending. Yesterday’s New York Times has also spotlighted this latest trend of war literature written service men and women, first person narratives of current wars: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=725&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>lost in translation.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2010/01/22/lost-in-transation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 00:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning: This is an extremely meta post. In response to a recent NYT article in which I was quoted, a very clever reader I assume, googled me, found my Facebook profile and proceeded to send me the following message: Speak for yourself. Asian and Indian men are raised pretty much by doctors and engineers, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=698&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;post-racial&#8217; hubris.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/12/16/post-racial-hubris/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Someone sent me a link to yet another piece of writing admonishing Tiger Woods and its inevitable knee jerk comparison to liberal disappointment with Obama. Le grand sigh. I think my greatest complaint stems from the following paragraph: Both men are of mixed race. Yet the majority of the country, including black Americans, sees them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=642&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform Debate Round-Up</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/08/18/health-care-reform-debate-round-up/</link>
		<comments>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/08/18/health-care-reform-debate-round-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 19:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DSC_4408, originally uploaded by indigo_belle (bellewetherstate). Yesterday, I kind of lost my shit on Twitter about Health Care Reform. I shared with the twitterverse and now here, that I worked as an intern for Senator Russ Feingold (D, WI) during summer of 1994. As most of you may remember, that was round one of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=233&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Want My Country Back</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/08/13/i-want-my-country-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tea Party Protestor, Staten Island, NY &#8211; April 15, 2009, originally uploaded by indigo_belle. I&#8217;m not sure which America she&#8217;s talking about either. To be honest, I find these town hall meetings distressing. Grown ass people are practically throwing tantrums over a social reform agenda that they&#8217;d in all likelihood would benefit from. Most of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=229&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Teachable Moment&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/07/30/teachable-moment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it was Malcolm X who had once said, &#8216;You got to make them laugh in order to make them think.&#8217; Last night, the Colbert Report tried to disambiguate the furor over Gates-gate. The Colbert Report Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c &#60;td style=&#39;padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;&#39; colspan=&#39;2&#39;The Word &#8211; He Who Smelt It, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=220&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Option Now</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/07/27/public-option-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Health Care Reform Rally &#8211; Washington, DC. June 25, 2009, originally uploaded by indigo_belle. It should be restated again. We need health care reform now. For one, like MSM, I got distracted by the Gates-gate episode. Following this very complex conversation or rather deconstruction about race, class, authority, law, free speech, and frankly, a story [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=217&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MJ Legacy, Ctd.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2009/07/14/mj-legacy-ctd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you aren&#8217;t aware, Jay Smooth&#8217;s Illdoctrine video blog often offers the most insightful discourse on issues and themes in the hip hop world as well as pop culture. His most recent post about MJ offers a deconstruction I haven&#8217;t heard too many places except in the comfort of my circle of friends, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&#038;blog=8733293&#038;post=212&#038;subd=thebellewetherstate&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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