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	<description>The Interests of a Childfree Brit Living in Toronto</description>
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		<title>When Good Actors Do Bad Things</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/04/28/when-good-actors-do-bad-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2007 03:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My question initially on this whole&#160; sorry saga was, why is this even news? Because Alec Baldwin shouted at his daughter?
Well, because he called her a little pig. Oh&#160;please.&#160;Who cares?
On a childfree forum I frequent where it was suggested that Alec Baldwin is a horrible parent (and, in not so many words not fit to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q&amp;A: US Campus Killings &#8211; Did You Know?</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/04/21/qa-us-campus-killings-did-you-know/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/04/21/qa-us-campus-killings-did-you-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 05:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this very interesting article on the BBC News website. The aftermath of the recent (and senseless) killings at Virginia Tech has generated, yet again, a heated debate about guns and gun ownership in the US.
Everybody has a view. On one hand, some think there are no gun controls at all (actually there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When A Dog Eats Its Own Vomit Why Are We Surprised?</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/04/20/when-a-dog-eats-its-own-vomit-why-are-we-surprised/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/04/20/when-a-dog-eats-its-own-vomit-why-are-we-surprised/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tits, blood and tragedy sells.
I call it the Sun Factor (or American Idol, or Canadian Idol or Pop Idol – it’s all the same thing). Be it the Sun in the UK, any Sun in Canada, or the New York Post in the US &#8211; tits, blood and tragedy invariably sell more newspapers and gets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogger Sued For Posting Topless Aniston Photos</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/02/22/blogger-sued-for-posting-topless-aniston-photos/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/02/22/blogger-sued-for-posting-topless-aniston-photos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, Blogger beware! There were two big stories about bloggers and blogs today. Here’s the first.
Blogger Sued Over Topless Aniston
This reminded me that, even though we can “do what we like and say what we like&#8221; on our blogs… there are certain boundaries. Step beyond them and someone could be after your livelihood big time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh Defending The Childfree?</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/28/rush-limbaugh-defending-the-childfree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2007 11:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives Suddenly Defending the Childfree?
Ultra conservative Rush Limbaugh defending women without children?? WTF? I actually found myself agreeing with what he is saying. It all erupted from what is now being called “The Barbara Boxer Thing” where on Jan 12, Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer apparently attacked Condolezza Rice for being single and childless.
I found the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breeding for God</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/15/breeding-for-god/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That is the only thing I can call these people, or rather this “movement.”  What else do you call having kids by the bucketloads, with the excuse that “It’s What God Wants”  I’d never heard of them, but according to the article  on ABC News A Full Quiver the group is, apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay-Z Will Smack a Bitch Down</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/12/jay-z-will-smack-a-bitch-down/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/12/jay-z-will-smack-a-bitch-down/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why, oh WHY do women put up with this crap? What happened to self respect? She&#8217;s rich, she&#8217;s beautiful. She&#8217;s talented (o.k. maybe she sucks as an actor, but she is a singer…). She was rich and beautiful before she met this surly-looking toe-rag (even if he’s a rich surly-looking toe-rag).  So it can’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bacharach&#8217;s Daughter Commits Suicide</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/07/bacharachs-daughter-commits-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/07/bacharachs-daughter-commits-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jan 2007 15:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this sad news today.
&#8220;The only child of the songwriter Burt Bacharach and actress Angie Dickinson has committed suicide after a lifetime struggling with a form of autism, a spokeswoman for her parents said.
Nikki Bacharach, 40, suffered from Asperger&#8217;s disorder. The spokesperson said that “She quietly and peacefully committed suicide to escape the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What They Said About Katie Couric</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/05/what-they-said-about-katie-kouric/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/05/what-they-said-about-katie-kouric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jan 2007 02:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading (and writing) about Nancy Pelosi&#8217;s appointment yesterday and the media reporting of women appointed to positions of power reminded me of this article I wrote back in August 2006 on the appointment of Katie Couric to CBC, the first anchor woman and the highest paid news anchor of any gender. This is the article:
 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treatment Will Keep Girl Child Sized</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/04/treatment-will-keep-girl-child-sized/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2007/01/04/treatment-will-keep-girl-child-sized/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2007 00:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parents of a severely disabled girl in the US have revealed that they are keeping her child-sized in order to give her a better life.
The nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby and cannot walk or talk. Along with hormone doses to limit her growth, Ashley’s parents also opted for for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Heartsick</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/10/05/heartsick/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/10/05/heartsick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Oct 2006 00:59:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thebritgirl.com/?p=161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember a day when I don&#8217;t think to myself &#8220;this is a beautiful world and it&#8217;s great to be in it.&#8221; Daily, I find so many things to be thankful for and I&#8217;m sure most people can do the same.
Yet, thinking about the  horrible tragedy in the Amish Community, ( the latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naomi Is Out Of Control!</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/09/27/naomi-is-out-of-control/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/09/27/naomi-is-out-of-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 02:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, all a model would get out of bed for was to sashay down the runway. As long as they were doing what they did best (and preferably keeping their mouths shut)  no one cared whether they were doing lines or modelling them.
Not anymore.   Looks like a large part [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So What Were You Doing On September 11 2001?</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/09/11/so-what-were-you-doing-on-september-11-2001/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/09/11/so-what-were-you-doing-on-september-11-2001/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the day when the world saw passenger planes deliberately flown into the Twin Towers in Downtown New York, with the death of almost 3,000 people I wonder if, years later, there is anyone who hasn&#8217;t asked and answered that question.If there is anyone who cannot remember exactly where they were and what they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Now For Katie Couric &#8211; Gender Bias Is Alive And Well in the US!</title>
		<link>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/08/26/and-now-for-katie-couric-gender-bias-is-alive-and-well-in-the-us/</link>
		<comments>http://thebritgirl.com/2006/08/26/and-now-for-katie-couric-gender-bias-is-alive-and-well-in-the-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:16:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>britgirl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In England solo women news readers are as common a sight as their male counterparts. But reading about Katie Couric the anchor woman who will fill America’s most prestigious journalism seat as solo anchor, the words “Poison” and “Chalice” floated into my mind. Because CBS’s ratings for its evening news show have been heading southwards [...]]]></description>
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