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		<title>Piercing glare warms the soul</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2009/12/08/piercing-glare-warms-the-soul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2009/12/08/piercing-glare-warms-the-soul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How I know that Scottish media (at the very least) has its head so far up its own arse: why in Deity&#8217;s name are Christmas cards sent by politicians worthy of news headlines? For that matter, why are politicians wasting taxpayer-funded time in worrying about the &#8216;message&#8217; sent by their cards? Can&#8217;t they just go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And I haz so much to say today&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2009/02/03/and-i-haz-so-much-to-say-today/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2009/02/03/and-i-haz-so-much-to-say-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bottom line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[charity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=3240</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; but my web host sent me invoices to renew my hosting that I never received so my account was suspended. But it&#8217;s fixed now (clearly). In an attempt to make my Google Reader more realistic, I cut out almost all my news feeds, and was planning on posting short snippets of things I wanted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should obese passengers buy an extra seat?</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/08/07/should-obese-passengers-buy-an-extra-seat/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/08/07/should-obese-passengers-buy-an-extra-seat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:39:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[asides]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ll pardon the pun, I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a &#8216;one size fits all&#8217; solution to the rights of obese passengers and the normal-sized passengers who sit next to them. I am convinced, however, that obese or extra-wide people choose to sit next to me on the bus because they think they can occupy >1 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scaredy cat Brits</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/07/16/scaredy-cat-brits/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/07/16/scaredy-cat-brits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=2167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, you Brits. You&#8217;re turning completely psycho, accusing a man taking photos of his kids on a slide of being a pervert (via BoingBoing, I am loving some of the comments). Does it not say more about the accusers than the accused? Who sees children as sexualised objects in this case?]]></description>
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		<title>Rights or privileges?</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/04/16/rights-or-privileges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/04/16/rights-or-privileges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=2107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fathers want to be left holding the baby: The health service is simply used to doling out advice to new mothers and doling out expectations, too, with no sense that fathers should be made similarly aware from the very beginning. When it comes to newly borns, fathers are considered an optional extra, and this father, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You just hate me &#8216;cos I&#8217;m black (again)</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/03/28/you-just-hate-me-cos-im-black-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2008/03/28/you-just-hate-me-cos-im-black-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:08:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Estelle attacks &#8216;blindness to black talent&#8217;: &#8220;There is a fashion for YWFs &#8211; young white females,&#8221; said Paul McKenzie, editor of the urban music magazine Touch. &#8220;They are the ones who are given the money and the time, and most importantly, people are patient with them. Duffy, if she hadn&#8217;t had this hit, would have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, let&#8217;s discriminate</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/11/13/yes-lets-discriminate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/11/13/yes-lets-discriminate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[gripes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[GAH! I get so mad when I read the counter-argument on Obese &#8216;should be barred from IVF&#8217;: &#8220;Weight loss may improve the success of treatment, and women should be made aware of that, but to deny treatment outright is discriminatory,&#8221; he said. Why can&#8217;t they bloody discriminate? Resources aren&#8217;t unlimited, for fuck&#8217;s sake! We&#8217;ll be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps children need to learn about responsibility before being given rights</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/05/10/perhaps-children-need-to-learn-about-responsibility-before-being-given-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/05/10/perhaps-children-need-to-learn-about-responsibility-before-being-given-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2007 08:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lack of responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[News today on teachers trying to &#8216;fight back&#8216; after being abused and humiliated online by their students: The US-based RateMyTeachers website carries comments about individual, named teachers. Remarks left on the site have included: &#8220;I have heard awful rumours about that man&#8221; and &#8220;he is evil personified&#8221;. Not all teachers are good teachers, and some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PC-crazy</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/03/23/pc-crazy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2007/03/23/pc-crazy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lame]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=1733</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The convicted armed robber who lodged a Legal Aid &#8216;human rights&#8217; case about telephone calls (i.e. that a recorded message identifying the origin of the calls was a breach of his human rights) WON. Judge Lord Glennie said this policy was not made with the authority of parliament. He said: &#8220;In some societies, it might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You just hate me &#8216;cos I&#8217;m black</title>
		<link>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2006/11/27/you-hate-me-just-cos-im-black/</link>
		<comments>http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/2006/11/27/you-hate-me-just-cos-im-black/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 12:26:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.serialdeviant.org/weblog/?p=1448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So there&#8217;ve been words because next year is 200 years since the abolition of the slave trade in the UK. There are people unhappy that the government has not issued a full apology, although they&#8217;ve said it was profoundly shameful and they express &#8220;deep sorrow that it could ever have happened&#8230;&#8221; From Esther Stanford, secretary [...]]]></description>
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