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		<title>Call Me Madam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest C, Not sure if you managed to catch the inaugural episode of Commander in Chief (the drama about the first female President of the United States) yesterday, but watching it has left me with a couple of troubling questions. To whit: 1) Why is it that tall people (like Geena Davis) are assumed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Call Me Madam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[P, Oh my petite little friend, please don&#8217;t let the ways of the real world interfere with your fantasy that a good pair of stilettos is all that keeps you from the arms of Brad Pitt.&#160; I know your professed interest is in running the free world but your more compelling suburban survival dream involves [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thank Heavens for Teenage Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, Well, I thought the celebrated British stiff upper lip might finally be wobbling, after a second round of terrorist attacks in London.&#160; What I had not reckoned on, however, was the ability of the average British teenager to thumb her nose at fear and concentrate on the truly important stuff in life.&#160; I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Thank Heavens for Teenage Girls</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[P, As one who was just today called a witch with a capital &#34;B&#34; by my not quite eleven year old son, I used to be one of those parents who thought it just couldn&#8217;t happen to them.&#160; Oh dearest P, each time I think this parenting thing must ease up, as the cherubs should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Out for Our Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest P, Seems my fellow feminists are quite unhappy that Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor has decided to retire, in large part b/c she plans to spend some time caring for her husband, ill with Alzheimer&#8217;s disease.&#160; It occurs to me, P, this may be the reason we give for NOT retiring when our husbands need us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Looking Out for Our Own</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2005 12:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, Phew &#8211; that was a close call!&#160; Thank you for warning me that I simply must get my career back into gear before grandparenthood and elder care beckons. Far better to hang on till death do us part to the tail-end of a glorious career, a la Rehnquist, than retire and be left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guantanamo Nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, In catching up with all the periodical reading I missed while down in Florida these past&#160; few weeks, what struck me most was not the surprise engagement between AutomoTom (sic) Cruise and Katie Homely; nor even the battle for Brad, between Jennifer and Angelina, important though these stories are.&#160; No, what resonated with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: Guantanamo Nights</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[P, I hate to be the one to point out the error of your ways, dearest P, but I&#8217;m afraid, as usual, you are imposing your own Imperialist bias upon the rest of the world.&#160; Personal experience suggests that Muslim males really are leg men.&#160; I clearly share the sense of outrage.&#160; How could we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Watching You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[P, Let’s say you’re a fairly significant DC type, perhaps even a political appointee, working in or near the White House (read here: a pain in the ass Republican). You spend your days being catered to, whether by an assistant or the sycophant fan club you seem to have generated. You return home to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Re: I&#8217;m Watching You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2005 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cherie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear C, Oh those evil Republicans, taking time out from promoting Big Business and the Oil Interests to let little Peaches crap on your front lawn! Funny, &#8216;cos I thought it was Democrats who didn&#8217;t believe in shoveling shit themselves &#8211; they just think everyone else should have to. It&#8217;s the same reason they believe [...]]]></description>
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