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		<title>#BLACKOUT.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2012/01/18/blackout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve read several opinions on SOPA/PIPA for weeks. I may be off in my read of it, but below is my letter to Senator Schumer urging his withdrawal of support of this bill. I&#8217;m sharing it here. Read the bill. Section 103 is SCARY. I&#8217;m not kidding. &#8212; Dear Senator Schumer: It has come to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1399&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘Let’s meet the moment. Let’s get to work.’</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/09/09/%e2%80%98let%e2%80%99s-meet-the-moment-let%e2%80%99s-get-to-work-%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:20:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the thing: Nobody hires in August. I know this fact quite intimately. I had begun my job search in the summer of 2008, before my job was &#8216;eliminated&#8217; at the end of 2008. I was working in the real estate world then, and contrary to popular narratives, signs of distress were everywhere in 2007. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1373&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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 degrees of unkind and kind to black girls (and yes, everyone). As of late I&#8217;m choosing to embrace a more positive dream (more on that later). Yet, these hands were not idle. There&#8217;s the summer [...]<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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1351</guid>
		<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 Ronald Reagan, bad banks, doc siders, penny loafers, jelly shoes, skinny jeans, jeggings, acid wash jeggings, jelly bracelets (silly bands), flannel. That stupid article in Psychology Today calling me and mine ugly got me watching [...]<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>death and all his friends&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/05/02/death-and-all-his-friends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 17:42:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bellewetherstate.com/?p=1344</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” — Mark Twain I couldn&#8217;t stop crying this morning. Which really surprised me. Like everyone else, I stayed up to watch the President address the nation confirming the death of Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Laden. Destroyer of worlds. Mass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1344&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>late pass.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/03/24/late-pass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been lurking on the internets, following the latest on Chris Brown. Here&#8217;s dream hampton: He clearly doesn&#8217;t have the kind of support system that is encouraging—even insisting—him to seek mental health treatment. His mother is an enabler, and his handlers huddled him into a truck the night he boxed in Rihanna&#8217;s face, leaving her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1338&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 Ricard&#8217;s essay, The Radiant Child (Artforum XX, Issue 4 December, 1981), for other obsessive reasons (research) the following passage seemed especially poignant: As much as undervaluation can kill, so can a false sense of the [...]<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 fashion and art photographer David LaChapelle has decided to settle his differences with the pop star Rihanna in a place where friends don’t usually end up: court. Mr. LaChapelle, known for his candy-colored, sexually over-the-top [...]<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>semantics. mcshemantics.</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/02/23/semantics-mcshemantics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 15:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I read accounts on the standoff between public union supporters and the governor of my home state, I kinda winced at a word: prosperity. In a write-up about the billionaire Koch Brothers, the NYT cites a letter sent by Charles Koch, appealing to conservative business leaders to engage in future political activism: “If not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1284&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on, wisconsin!</title>
		<link>http://bellewetherstate.com/2011/02/23/on-wisconsin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Syreeta</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; America&#8217;s new Bellwether State, remains in a detente: Senate Democrats remained in hiding in Illinois, preventing the chamber from taking up a budget bill that includes provisions they view as an attack on public sector unions. And Assembly Democrats began a marathon session of debate on the bill, promising to offer more than 100 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bellewetherstate.com&amp;blog=8733293&amp;post=1285&amp;subd=thebellewetherstate&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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