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		<title>The consistency of pro-choice, anti death-penalty perspectives.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading an article in the Guardian on Rick Santorum&#8217;s frankly disgusting views on abortion, I came across the following comment: A problem with pointing out the inconsistency of opposing right-to-abortion and supporting the death penalty is that the same accusation in reverse can be made to liberals. Really? I don&#8217;t think so. While it may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1082&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaninglessnes of the Mean</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had an argument about research methods with a psychologist a while ago. Nothing unusual there, eh? While most of what went on was fairly standard stuff, there is one thing that struck me. It seemed to get to the heart of how we do research, what we mean by research, how it can be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=950&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not A Racist, But..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Darren Scully. Why must you share a surname and first initial with one of my favourite fictional sceptics? Right. So Darren Scully is was Mayor of Naas*. As Mayor of Naas, he stated that he &#8220;would refuse to represent members of the black community&#8221; in his area, because &#8220;black Africans&#8221; were &#8220;aggressive and bad-mannered&#8221;. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1069&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Barsexuals and Faux-Mos</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was Pink Training! Which was wonderful, because I got the chance to give a couple of awesome workshops (Bi Awareness and a bi space) and spend time with some of the fantasticest people in the country. It also meant that I got way too little sleep and DEFINITELY had no peace &#8216;n&#8217; quiet [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1054&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foodie Manifesto</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I believe in abundance. I believe in joy. I believe in sensuality, pleasure, and delight. I believe in boisterous meals with friends, I believe in curling up on the sofa with something (and someone!) warming and delicious. I believe in treating yourself every day to good food just because you can. I believe in elaborate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1048&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting Postgraduate Funding</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cried when I read the news this morning. That&#8217;s a tough thing to admit. I&#8217;ve read about far worse things. Heard stories of untold human suffering which evoked little more than a &#8220;well, damn&#8220;. I&#8217;ve been worried, heartbroken and livid. But I&#8217;ve never, until this morning, cried. This morning was when I heard of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1063&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting Yourself Go</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You always let yourself go when you&#8217;re stressed, you know. You should make more of an effort.&#8221; That was my ex, back when I was in the middle of writing a thesis and, frankly, had neither the time nor the energy for such things as straightening my hair or shaving my legs. That was also, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1040&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To Hitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:01:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of people over at Reddit have made a living tribute to Christopher Hitchens, raising a glass to him for how he has inspired them: I love this. I mean, I don&#8217;t love that Hitchens is seriously ill. I love that people are taking the time to talk about how inspiring he has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1056&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings and Salutations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 14:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am in the process of buying a thing online. I get to the page where I am asked to enter my details. One of the required fields is &#8216;Salutation&#8217;. The available salutations are as follows: &#8220;Mr, Miss, Mrs, Dr&#8221;. This, gentle readers, is what we call a Conundrum. I go by Ms. Always have. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=1050&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Love in the Present Tense</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aoife O'Riordan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I loved her. And she loved me. Bereavement and loss are strange things when you don&#8217;t believe in gods or afterlives. Our brains seem to be wired for a befuddled incomprehension of the fact that a person can end, that they stop and are no longer there and no longer exist. We can easily intellectually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=considertheteacosy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13823833&amp;post=964&amp;subd=considertheteacosy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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