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		<title>End of life</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/05/20/1255/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 07:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps that's because the committee stick-handled very carefully around the issue of physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hummingbirds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the other hand, the habit of staying still while feeding might make the perching hummingbird more vulnerable to predators.]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Laura</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/05/13/1251/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 07:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday May 6, 2012
No column today
By Jim Taylor
Sorry, friends, but there&#8217;s no column today. I started to write about Barrack Obama finally coming out (not intended as a double entendre!) in favour of same-sex couples having the same marriage rights (and rites) as heterosexual couples. And I found myself getting to irritated at the standard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeds</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/05/09/1249/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 07:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weeds, you see, are a direct consequence of what theologians call &#8220;The Fall.&#8221; Like tornadoes, blizzards, and volcanos, noxious weeds didn't exist in the original Garden of Eden. Read the Bible and see for yourself &#8211; there's no mention of any of those in the Creation story of Genesis.]]></description>
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		<title>Passwords</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/05/02/1244/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 07:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As he went under for what might be the last time, he cried out, &#8220;Lord Jesus, save me!&#8221;<br />
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;And sure enough, the next wave hurled him back up the shore to safety.]]></description>
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		<title>Prostitutes</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/04/29/1242/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 07:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were Obama, I'd start worrying. If his bodyguards can't keep their peckers in their pants for their wives and partners, what makes him believe they'll put the rest of their bodies in front of a bullet for him?]]></description>
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		<title>Mourning</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/04/25/1240/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those memories had not surfaced in 54 years. But they were so fresh, so sharp, it was as if I had vacuum-sealed them and put them into storage.]]></description>
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		<title>Speed</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/04/22/1238/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 07:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's some gross hypocrisy here. Because no one &#8211; I repeat, no one &#8211; needs 500 horsepower on today's roads.<br />
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;There are only two reasons for having that kind of power &#8211; to race, or to show off. Neither belongs on public roads.]]></description>
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		<title>Flumes</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/04/18/1236/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It also seems to me that a flume makes a good metaphor for the sacred writings of any religion. They all try to convey wisdom from some distant source, through the aridity of intervening generations, to people who need that life-giving source now.]]></description>
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		<title>PTSD</title>
		<link>http://edges.canadahomepage.net/2012/04/15/1234/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 20:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday April 15, 2012
War wounds take generations to heal
By Jim Taylor
On Thursday, silence fell in Syria. For the first time in over a year, the rattle of gunfire, the thunder of artillery, the shock waves of exploding shells, ceased &#8211; even if temporarily.
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;For months, news coverage from Syria &#8211; often as cellphone video &#8211; showed [...]]]></description>
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