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	<title>Serenity... an expedition</title>
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		<title>son of a &#8220;devil&#8217;s spawn&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Used by retiring or resigning or whatever Dem, Eric Massa, to describe Rahm Emmanuel: 
&#34;Rahm Emanuel is son of the devil&#8217;s spawn,&#34; Massa said. &#34;He is an individual who would sell his mother to get a vote. He would strap his children to the front end of a steam locomotive.&#34;

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Er… am I hearing echoes or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/03/son-of-a-devils-spawn/</link>
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		<title>if i had my druthers i&#8217;d be frozen, shattered, scattered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[But I think&#160; I’d have to somehow arrange to die in Sweden
 .
Also, it ain’t cheap being green, even when you are dead. Though that’s not really true, either – our carcasses are fairly perfectly designed to give back to the earth that we live off of when we are dead. It’s the rites and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/03/if-i-had-my-druthers-id-be-frozen-shattered-scattered/</link>
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		<title>speaking of right wingers&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least one of my classes seems to be chock full of them. Pro-death penalty, anti-choice and who knows what else besides. There are a few other classmates who seem to be a bit more moderate but I appear to be the only flaming lefty liberal. 
Whatever happened to college campuses being hotbeds of Marxists, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/03/speaking-of-right-wingers/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;astonishingly nasty&#8221; indeed &#8211; mccarthyites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chris Bodenner, filling in for Sully:
Liz Cheney ratchets up the disgusting campaign led by Senator Chuck Grassley to impugn DOJ appointees who represented Gitmo detainees. Ackerman:
You know, [the lawyers who] provided the representation that the Rehnquist and Roberts Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled those detainees are entitled? And which even the military commissions provide for? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/03/astonishingly-nasty-indeed-mccarthyites/</link>
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		<title>writerly thoughts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know those people &#8211; they say they get up before dawn, grab their coffee and then sit down and clatter out thousands of words before the morning paper even hits the door? 
&#160; Yeah, that&#8217;s not me. I so want it to be but I am not, I have discovered, an early morning writer. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/03/writerly-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>ebook stuff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I completely missed Black History Month. Missed writing about it, anyway. I’m not terribly surprised, though – it seems the last thing I want to do during Black History Month is write about Black history. General contrariness, I think.
Instead, I read a lot. Or downloaded at lot to read, even if not quite yet. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/03/ebook-stuff/</link>
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		<title>what do you know?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not a philosophical question. Or, not entirely, anyway. And yes, as usual this rumination is really about me, not you (unless you want it to be).
 
No, it’s more the question I’ve been asking myself lately as I sit here looking at the blank screen day after day, realizing I feel I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/02/what-do-you-know/</link>
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		<title>conversation interrupted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic.com has made a big mistake, in my opinion. They’ve decided to remove all personality and reader hooks from their blogger pages (except for Andrew Sullivan’s)and make them almost unreadable. I guess to ensure that casual passersby keep on… well, passing by. It’s not clear to me why they would want to do this.
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/02/conversation-interrupted/</link>
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		<title>what is luddite-ism?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Yes, yes this is an odd post but, strangely, my site comes up first (at the moment) in a Google search for “luddite-ism” – who even knew that was a real way of writing that? – I am so proud, lol. Anyway, from the number of people looking for a definition of that term, I’m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/02/what-is-luddite-ism/</link>
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		<title>naming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned yesterday that I thought that to re-brand and renew Human Beams, we needed a new name. I still think that – or maybe at least a good tagline.

Anyway, I thought I had found it yesterday. A line of a poem by Langston Hughes just sort of leaped out at me and I thought [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nanettekelley.com/2010/02/naming/</link>
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