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		<title>Dispatches from Nepal, Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arjun&#8217;s note: Here is part 3 of my good friend Dougal&#8217;s description of life in Nepal. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here.
My host family is awesome.
There&#8217;s a baa (dad), aamaa (mom), hajurbaa (grandfather), a 14-year old bahini (younger sister), a 9-year old bahini, and a 2-year old bhaai (little brother). At [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatches from Nepal, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arjun&#8217;s Note: Here is part 2 of my good friend Dougal&#8217;s dispatches from his semester abroad in Nepal. I hope you find it interesting. You can find part 1 here.
- A story: One of the program directors is this guy from eastern Nepal. When his dad was like twenty, so maybe fifty-ish years ago, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatches from Nepal, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 23:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arjun&#8217;s Note: So I know I haven&#8217;t been doing a lot of my own writing lately, but I&#8217;ve had a lot of stuff going on. I recently brought you Federalist Paper No. 420, by my good friend Jeff. Now I want to bring you something entirely different; another one of my good friends, Dougal, is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federalist Paper No. 420</title>
		<link>http://mentalbasement.com/?p=93</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:52:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By J
At its core, the medical marijuana movement is being held back by one thing alone, and that is ignorance. Just like the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s or even the Women’s movement in the years preceding 1920, the quest to decriminalize or legalize cannabis must overcome the preconceptions burned into the minds of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the Archives: The Story of Mel</title>
		<link>http://mentalbasement.com/?p=91</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Arjun&#8217;s Note: Anyone worth anything in programming who has spent a considerable amount of time on the internet has stumbled across &#8216;The Story of Mel&#8217;. It was posted to Usenet in 1983, and once it migrated to the internet it developed the free-verse form you see here. I know I&#8217;m unoriginal and lame for posting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Man Who Sold Propane and Propane Accessories</title>
		<link>http://mentalbasement.com/?p=87</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ Meet Hank Hill. He&#8217;s a forty-something father living in Arlen, TX whose ambitions in life are to have a good family, and sell propane (and propane accessories) to all the good folks of Arlen. He lives in a quiet house with his family, next to his neighbors: Dale the conspiracy theorist, Bill the failure, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Girl, 13, Sends 14,000+ Texts in One Month</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 04:21:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arjun Sharma
I&#8217;m the first person to admit that I text a lot. I mean, with the iPhone unlimited text plan, I&#8217;ll have entire conversations via text, and I&#8217;ve gotten comfortable sending 1-letter texts too (like &#8216;K&#8217;).
But this is ridiculous. A 13 year old girl sent and received 14,528 texts between November 27th and December [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning American History- A Better Way</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arjun Sharma
Anyone who went through school in the United States has learned American history over and over again. I first remember learning about Christopher Columbus in the 1st grade to learn about why we get Columbus day off, followed by a lesson about the Pilgrims to understand Thanksgiving. Slowly, my knowledge was expanded- the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time We Had a Little Talk About Religion&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mentalbasement.com/?p=62</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arjun</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Arjun Sharma
It&#8217;s 2009, we can talk to people anywhere in the world instantaneously, fly through the air at the speed of sound, and walk on the moon. It&#8217;s about time we talked about religion for a bit.
I don&#8217;t care if you&#8217;re Hindu, Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Zoroastrian, or just &#8220;spiritual.&#8221; You believe in God or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Days in Israel pt. 1</title>
		<link>http://mentalbasement.com/?p=58</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nat</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[by Nat Lavin
Yesterday, I returned from Birthright Israel. I can honestly say that no blog entry could possibly do the amazing experience justice.
About two weeks ago, I was leaving New Orleans to spend a few days in DC before heading off to Israel. I was being driven to the airport by my best friend and [...]]]></description>
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