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		<title>About that federal deficit &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, the quadrennial Mock Convention unfurled in all its glory on the Washington &#38; Lee University campus this weekend, and it sure left me thinking. The convention opened with a (presumed) debate between Ann Coulter and James Carville, (lotta grandstanding) followed by the keynote address from Mike Huckabee (nice guy) on Thursday evening. Next morning, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=29&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a balmy night in early December. It’s been raining all day. The temperature should be in the 20s, but it’s probably in the 50s or something, warm enough to be outside in just a sweater. I’m sitting in one of the white rocking chairs on the front porch of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=27&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are the 99 percent &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every weekend since  early October  my nephew  has driven an hour from home to be part of Occupy Roanoke. When the group arose soon after Occupy Wall Street gained attention, I was skeptical  –for about two days, until I saw their direction. It was on a Sunday night that a woman calling herself Mary OccupyWallStreet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=26&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans Day 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[11 – 11 – 11 Veterans Day, a k a Armistice Day: I awake at 1:30 in the morning under a waning full moon. I can’t get back to sleep, and I’m not sure why. I’ve been reading a biography of Juliette Lowe, and I’ve just gotten to the part where she’s in England when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=5&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s Mr. Micawber when you need him?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent Jonathan Schell essay in The Nation, “Cruel America,” centered on the glee expressed at a Republican debate when Rick Perry bragged about his state’s record of executions.  The article goes on to contrast the United States with other “civilized” nations regarding its record on such executions (most nations that purport to be democracies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=6&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The language of 9/11</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Tracy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In its coverage of the 10th anniversary of 9/11, NPR featured linguists on both Terry Gross’s FRESH AIR and TALK OF THE NATION. Linguist Gary Nunnberg  told Terry that his studies show that in fact 9/11 had very little effect on the language. In picking its top word or phrase for the decade, the American [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=7&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flags</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am staked out at Sushi Muramoto, right across the street from the administrative building where Lexington City Council tonight will vote on whether Confederate flags may be flown from city stanchions in this town that has been called the “Shrine of the South.” Right now the building’s doors are locked, and a TV camera [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=8&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>July 20</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JULY 20 &#8230; Yeah. So, I’m coming out. About my age, that is. I’m 66 today, and why is it that we all want to remain younger than we actually are? I mean, after passing about 28 or 29. For a long time, I was determined to be just 29. In spirit, at least. These [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lisatracymyword.wordpress.com&amp;blog=30198051&amp;post=9&amp;subd=lisatracymyword&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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