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		<title>Daigle: Marry Well</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>codydaigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's time for us to start thinking about who we will be with marriage: what will we bring to the institution, as well as what it will bring to us.]]></description>
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<p>The federal case to overturn Proposition 8 began today, and the case will, no doubt, be a touchstone for the future of the marriage equality fight (for better or worse, no?).</p>
<p>I really enjoyed(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Daigle: Good Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>codydaigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you're facing a new year -- hell, a new decade -- it's good to take stock of the good things in your life, to prepare you for the fight ahead.]]></description>
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<p>In a week, I&#8217;m flying to New York for a &#8220;kick off the new year&#8221; vacation.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s really a double-duty trip: I&#8217;m flying up to see a play of mine being performed in a reading series, too. So it&#8217;s(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ruby-Sachs: Letterman&#8217;s Mistake</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ERubySachs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When David Letterman makes a joke about how disgusting it is to sleep with someone who is trans, it stings a little more than your average gay joke.]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve heard my fair share of gay jokes. In fact, many of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFt34bXudTM" target="_blank">most high profile </a>come from members of the straight community: celebrities and supporters who use LGB issues to get a laugh, but also(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ruby-Sachs: Obama is Chicken When it Comes to Gay Rights</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:23:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ERubySachs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to gay rights, Obama doesn't want to breathe on the boundaries of the law, let alone give them the shove they need.
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<p>American Presidents are famous for stretching the letter of the law: Nixon&#8217;s attempt to sabotage the Democratic Party, Reagan&#8217;s Iran-Contra scandal, George Bush&#8217;s extraordinary rendition. When(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ruby-Sachs: Great Copenhagen Prank</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ERubySachs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A group of activists in the U.S. and Canada calling themselves the Yes Men teamed up to play an elaborate hoax on Canada. They created authentic looking press releases that announced a dramatic shift in Canada's climate policy.]]></description>
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<p>Indulge me a little this morning. Because my home country has been performing pretty poorly in Copenhagen (Canada has been voted as the worst climate conference participant be other delegates(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Ruby-Sachs: Senate Deal Lets Health Insurers Rob the Public Purse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 14:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ERubySachs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[how is it that, after decades of health insurers who kick sick people off their plans, charge exorbitant rates, refuse to cover people with existing illnesses and lie and cheat to avoid paying out health care costs, the public has decided to relieve the private sector of all the costly and problematic clients.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;re a health insurer in the United States right now, your worst nightmare is a 50 year old woman with a slowly progressing terminal illness. Throw in some expensive cancer treatments or a(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Daigle: Saturn Returns</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>codydaigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know the right side of history. This moment is as good as any other to find a new way to live -- and fight for -- the things we know. ]]></description>
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<p>I&#8217;ve had an unexpected response while watching the big stories unfold in the past weeks &#8212; the Adam Lambert debacle, the Mercado murder, the Ugandan anti-homosexual laws, the New York marriage(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Daigle: Carrie and the Kid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>codydaigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about Carrie Prejean and Will Phillips, the ten-year-old who stood up for equality.]]></description>
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<p>Fun week, no?</p>
<p>On the one hand we&#8217;ve got Carrie Prejean, whose 15 minutes of fame feel longer than &#8220;The English Patient,&#8221; throwing a temper tantrum on &#8220;Larry King Live&#8221; for King&#8217;s audacity to(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Daigle: Dear Maggie Gallagher</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>codydaigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An open letter to Maggie Gallagher, in the hopes we might better understand each other. ]]></description>
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Dear Maggie Gallagher,</p>
<p>I just watched the video you made concerning the victory of anti-marriage equality advocates in Maine. </p>
<p>And though we&#8217;ve never met (a product, no doubt, of some great(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Daigle: The Lesson in Losing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:35:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>codydaigle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn something from this loss. Otherwise, we lost marriage for nothing.]]></description>
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<p>We lost in Maine. And that loss&#8230; well, it sucks. No point in trying to describe it otherwise.</p>
<p>So, now what?</p>
<p>For starters, if you&#8217;re not &#8212; come out. To your family, to your friends, to the(...)</p>]]></content:encoded>
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