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	<title>Amy Alkon</title>
	<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com</link>
	<description>The Advice Goddess</description>
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		<title>Even A Picture Of A Gun Now Cause For High School Suspension</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Even A Picture Of A Gun Now Cause For High School Suspension
Breathe loudly and you might be suspended from high school these days -- which hurts your ability to learn and get good grades for college, and is a violation of your civil liberties. 

The l...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/05/even-a-picture-of-a-gun-now-cause-for-high-school-suspension/</link>
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		<title>Cervical Collar As Travel Pillow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Cervical Collar As Travel Pillow 
There was an article in the WSJ by Nancy Keates about travel pillows, with expensive (and supposedly brilliant choices) that all seemed ugly and borderline-helpful, if at all. The best option was in the comments sectio...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/05/cervical-collar-as-travel-pillow/</link>
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		<title>Has Word Of The Streisand Effect Not Reached The White House?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has Word Of The Streisand Effect Not Reached The White House?
From Wikipedia:

The Streisand effect is the phenomenon whereby an attempt to hide or remove a piece of information has the unintended consequence of publicizing the information more widely,...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/04/has-word-of-the-streisand-effect-not-reached-the-white-house/</link>
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		<title>Why The TSA Is Really About Getting You Used To Giving Up Your Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why The TSA Is Really About Getting You Used To Giving Up Your Rights
(While raking in mega-bucks for the connected and keeping the jobless rate a little less dismal.)

Christopher Elliott writes in a Nat Geo column about something I've written about b...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/04/why-the-tsa-is-really-about-getting-you-used-to-giving-up-your-rights/</link>
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		<title>Batty Taste</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Batty Taste
This is the place...
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		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/04/batty-taste/</link>
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		<title>I Am Now Officially Ruined For Coffeeshop Coffee &#8212; And I Didn&#8217;t Buy A $16,000 Espresso Machine With A Footman To Assist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I Am Now Officially Ruined For Coffeeshop Coffee -- And I Didn't Buy A $16,000 Espresso Machine With A Footman To Assist
Gregg bought me both the $25.95 AeroPress coffeemaker, which my sister raved about, and the Capresso frothPRO milk frother from Ama...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/04/i-am-now-officially-ruined-for-coffeeshop-coffee-and-i-didnt-buy-a-16000-espresso-machine-with-a-footman-to-assist/</link>
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		<title>Ethically Disabled Drivers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ethically Disabled Drivers
One of every 10 drivers in California has a disabled placard. David Goldstein of CBS2 Los Angeles did an investigative report on this, talking to people he found working out vigorously on treadmills and other workout machines...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/03/ethically-disabled-drivers/</link>
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		<title>Give This Dog A New Tweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Give This Dog A New Tweet
Loved this:

@HideousTerrier
I'm not licking you because I love you. I am licking you to decide whether you taste good enough to feed upon after you die in bed.]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/03/give-this-dog-a-new-tweet/</link>
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		<title>The War On Drugs Is Also A War On Research On Drugs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The War On Drugs Is Also A War On Research On Drugs
An excerpt from an LA Times editorial:

For a muscular agency that combats vicious drug criminals, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration acts like a terrified and obstinate toddler when it comes to...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/03/the-war-on-drugs-is-also-a-war-on-research-on-drugs/</link>
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		<title>Nitwit Mom Thinks Parenting Is About Making &#8220;A Political Stance&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nitwit Mom Thinks Parenting Is About Making "A Political Stance"
Stephanie Kaloi writes at The Good Men Project about the girly way she's been dressing her 4-year-old son: 

I have spent most of my son's nearly four years on the planet scouring thrift ...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/02/nitwit-mom-thinks-parenting-is-about-making-a-political-stance/</link>
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		<title>Shockingly, Boxed Pizza Is Not Kale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shockingly, Boxed Pizza Is Not Kale
What kind of dim bulb buys boxed frozen pizzas thinking they're health food? 

Ken Stone writes at La Mesa Patch about a mom's $5 million lawsuit targeting "toxic" frozen pizzas sold locally:

Katie Simpson bought fr...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/02/shockingly-boxed-pizza-is-not-kale/</link>
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		<title>Fundroid: Cool Projection On A Building In Berlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fundroid: Cool Projection On A Building In Berlin
I love cute robots. I wish I had one.

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		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/02/fundroid-cool-projection-on-a-building-in-berlin/</link>
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		<title>The $10K Undergrad Degree</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The $10K Undergrad Degree 
Arthur C. Brooks, now prez of the American Enterprise Institute, did this in 1994 (and maybe it's somewhat more or quite a bit more now), but he had to be creative about getting an affordable education -- so he was. As would ...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/01/the-10k-undergrad-degree/</link>
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		<title>Law And Order, Your Tax Dollars, And Your Right To Own, Smoke, And Sell Plants</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Law And Order, Your Tax Dollars, And Your Right To Own, Smoke, And Sell Plants
A quote from an article by Ashley Portero at IBTimes on how drug offenses are filling up Federal prisons -- more than violent crimes: 

Statistics from the Federal Bureau of...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/01/law-and-order-your-tax-dollars-and-your-right-to-own-smoke-and-sell-plants/</link>
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		<title>Couple Could Face 60 Days In Jail For Saving Baby Deer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Couple Could Face 60 Days In Jail For Saving Baby Deer
They should have just let it die, apparently. The Indiana Department of Natural Resources went after them -- wanting to euthanize the deer, saying she might be dangerous. From ABC News:

Jeff and J...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/01/couple-could-face-60-days-in-jail-for-saving-baby-deer/</link>
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		<title>Crass Stains</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Crass Stains
And other off-topic links.]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/02/01/crass-stains/</link>
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		<title>Being Aggressively Stupid: Government Doing What Government Does Best</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Being Aggressively Stupid: Government Doing What Government Does Best
S.A. Miller writes in the New York Post about a new Department of Homeland Security video with advice for confronting armed would-be mass-murderers: 

Is your workplace getting shot ...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/31/being-aggressively-stupid-government-doing-what-government-does-best/</link>
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		<title>NYPD Wants Body Scanners On The Streets; Corbett Files Suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYPD Wants Body Scanners On The Streets; Corbett Files Suit
Jonathan Corbett, a software designer who has learned the law enough to act as his own lawyer in bringing suit against the TSA is -- thank you, Jonathan -- at it again. This time, he's filed s...]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/31/nypd-wants-body-scanners-on-the-streets-corbett-files-suit/</link>
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		<title>The Off-Topic Basket</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Off-Topic Basket
Post tasteless odds and ends here. More blog items in the morning.]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/31/the-off-topic-basket/</link>
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		<title>Oh, Those Spammers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Those Spammers 
I just got an email notifying me that I am receiving a check from the UN for $2,811,041.00 -- which they are sending, how else? By UPS! (I only have to pay a "shipping and handling fee of $95). ]]></description>
		<link>http://amyalkon.mensnewsdaily.com/2013/01/30/oh-those-spammers/</link>
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