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		<title>Same-Sex Marriage, and Why the Church Should Just Drop It</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 19:50:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past week, two vastly important events occurred regarding the LGBT community. First, North Carolinians make their voices heard in the voting booth on Tuesday, passing a state constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage by defining it as between one man and one woman. Two days later, President Obama, in an interview with ABC News, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=619&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>KONY 2012: Why Emotional Appeals are Bad for Activism</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you&#8217;ve been living under a rock, or happened to give up social networking for Lent, you&#8217;ve probably seen this video making the rounds: This video, created by the foundation Invisible Children, was meant to raise awareness about Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord&#8217;s Resistance Army (LRA), known for abducting children and using them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=610&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gay Marriage Debate</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[7M Californians had their rights stripped away today by activist 9th Circuit judges. As president I will work to protect marriage. &#8212; Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) February 7, 2012 Rick Santorum is an idiot. Ordinarily I don&#8217;t like calling people names. However, Rick Santorum, Republican Presidential candidate, by sending the tweet above, proved himself to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=603&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Your Opinions To Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a bus trip back from Des Moines this weekend, I decided to grab a Jimmy John&#8217;s sandwich to eat. As I was eating my sandwich, one of my bus mates saw me eating (along with some like-minded people), and said, &#8220;By buying Jimmy John&#8217;s, you support the murder of elephants.&#8221; I then had to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=598&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Christmas Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a holiday that&#8217;s supposed to be about coming together with the people you love, Christmas is certainly a holiday with much animosity and hatred. On the one hand, there are the people who feel the need to engage in the annual &#8220;War on Christmas.&#8221; Not the people who actually attack Christmas, but the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=592&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Week, Part V: Why I&#8217;m Part of the 99%</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 20:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: The People Part II: The Camp Part III: The Message Part IV: Eric This whole week I had been writing about my experiences with the Occupy movement, and while I really valued the learning experience I got that weekend, it took an interview with the campus television station for me to really think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=449&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Week, Part IV: Eric</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: The People Part II: The Camp Part III: The Message In today&#8217;s post, I&#8217;ll be taking a brief break from speculating and talking about the movement as a whole, and will use this time to talk about Eric. While it may seem like a filler anecdote, I believe it illustrates not only the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=444&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Week, Part III: The Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part I: The People Part II: The Camp Some people fault the Occupy movement for not having a clear message. Some people that I talked to this weekend were genuinely frustrated with the Occupiers because they didn&#8217;t have talking points they could just spout out. In a conversation I was part of with a lady [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=441&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Week, Part II: The Camp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part two of Occupy Week. Read Part one, The People, here. If your knowledge of the Occupy movement is based on second-hand reports, you probably assume that the movement is a rag-tag group of individuals, all under common grievances, but essentially just a gathering of people. The reality, however, is that the Occupy movements, especially [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=427&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Week, Part I: The People</title>
		<link>http://justmakessense.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/occupy-week-part-i-the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 17:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Fleming</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While my college was on fall break from October 27-30, I and another Wartburg student attended the Occupy St. Louis protest, currently being held in Kiener Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri, just a few blocks away from Busch Stadium. I went because I was looking for an educational experience, wanting to learn more about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=justmakessense.wordpress.com&#038;blog=11361104&#038;post=415&#038;subd=justmakessense&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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