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		<title>The Breast Defense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ahem.  Now that I have your attention&#8230;
The American culture has always been absolutely obsessed by the breast.  As women, in may ways we define ourselves by our breasts; are they big enough, firm enough, round enough?  We alter our bodies with baggies full of synthetic material to get the perfect breast.  Our breasts are enormous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=600&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Back!  Did you Miss Me?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case any of you were wondering, my kitchen table has taken a very much-needed vacation from the blogosphere.  Thanks to all of you regular readers who stuck with me and sent messages wondering if I were sick or expired.  Obviously, neither was true, but as October wore on I believed my left-wing head was going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=597&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If Not Now, When?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes life imitates art, and sometimes art imitates life.  This weekend, as thousands of gay rights advocates marched in Washington to push the administration and the Congress to get started on their promises toward gay civil rights, I caught two things on television that got me thinking again about all this.
On Saturday, I watched comedian Wanda Sykes perform her [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=594&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>General Discontent</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw an interesting roundtable discussion on &#8220;This Week with George Stephanopoulos&#8221; yesterday morning.  The discussion topic was Afghanistan and Commanding General Stanley McChrystal&#8217;s comments in London late last week.  When asked if he could support a new Afghan policy of more hands-off engagement via unmanned drones and special forces operations, McChrystal bluntly answered no. 
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		<title>Found:  A Democrat with Balls</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 18:19:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I fell in love Tuesday.  Completely, utterly, and helplessly in love.  And don&#8217;t worry about any implications this may have for Mr. Kitchen Table; you see, he fell in love, too.
And WHO is this object of our affections?  Florida Congressman Alan Grayson &#8211; a Democrat that actually is acting like a Democrat.  Imagine!
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		<title>Pants on Fire</title>
		<link>http://kateskitchentable.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/pants-on-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year while my daughter was in elementary, middle, and high school, I would get a note from at least one teacher about inappropriate behavior in class.  You see, my daughter was one of those kids that enjoyed school as a social occasion, but it didn&#8217;t matter to her if she actually learned anything there.  She [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=578&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s Way Station</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My nest is empty.
On Saturday, Mr. Kitchen Table and I took our daughter two hours down the interstate and left her in a tiny cinder-block room in a city where she knows nobody.  Of course, this place is commonly known as a college dormitory and countless parents have made the same trip &#8211; but to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=575&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Best Health Care&#8221; Myth Debunked</title>
		<link>http://kateskitchentable.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/the-best-health-care-myth-debunked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was waiting in a long line in the post office yesterday.  One poor clerk was working the desk and was being besieged by patrons with multiple packages, a mass mailing, and a pick-up of a certified letter that didn&#8217;t seem to be anywhere.  The wait seemed endless.  An elderly gentleman in front of me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=569&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Busting The Health Insurance Exchange Myth</title>
		<link>http://kateskitchentable.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/busting-the-health-insurance-exchange-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 19:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Raging through the current health care debate is this idea that if the government supported not-for-profit health care cooperatives and insurance exchanges, there would be adequate market competition and no need for public health insurance.  I have heard countless Republicans say that the uninsured should be allowed to purchase insurance across state lines or buy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=kateskitchentable.wordpress.com&blog=4713661&post=565&subd=kateskitchentable&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bearing False Witness</title>
		<link>http://kateskitchentable.wordpress.com/2009/08/13/bearing-false-witness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:56:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kate Ryan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have said before on these pages that I was raised as a Roman Catholic.  Though I now consider myself to be an agnostic, I still remember what all those years of religious instruction taught me; feed the hungry, clothe the naked, love thy neighbor, forgive the sinners, and heal the sick. 
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