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	<description>Dissecting What You Choose to Ignore</description>
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		<title>Lethal Lucia &#8211; The Facebook Spammers are Here</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There I was minding my own business on Facebook when a friend request popped up.  Now how nice is that? Someone wants to be my friend.  After 2 years of social networking the requests start to slow down and navigating the site becomes a test of navigating through melodramatic status updates and covert invitations to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/03/03/lethal-lucia-the-facebook-spammer-are-here/</link>
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		<title>Discovering African Ancestry Through DNA Testing (2/3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Please read Part 1 if you have not already.
Like many who use DNA for ancestral discovery, I didn&#8217;t understand entirely what was going to be tested when I first signed up with Genebase. The common mistake is to think that the tests will determine the entire ethnic makeup of your mother or father (not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/03/01/discovering-african-ancestry-through-dna-testing-23/</link>
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		<title>Discovering African Ancestry Through DNA Testing (1/3)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Black History Month, many Americans and Canadians of African descent are confronted with one simple question – why do we need a Black History Month? After all, there&#8217;s no month dedicated to white history or gay history. The black history tradition dates back to 1926 and was founded by American historian Carter G Woodson, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/02/28/discovering-african-ancestry-through-dna-testing-12/</link>
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		<title>Bambocciona Nation: The Triumph of the Big Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is easier to save for a down payment under mom's roof than it is while renting.  Deteriorating economic conditions will only increase the number of people living with mom and dad past the age of 30.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/02/20/bambocciona-nation-the-triumph-of-the-big-baby/</link>
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		<title>The End of an Era: Weaning My Daughter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[December 11 2009 marked an important date in my life: it was the day I stopped breastfeeding my two-year-old daughter Gabriella Michelle.  I hadn’t deliberately planned to wean her on that very day.  But I was unexpectedly put on an anti-seizure medication that the doctors told me was incompatible with breastfeeding.  So [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/02/17/the-end-of-an-era-weaning-my-daughter/</link>
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		<title>Affirmative action needed in Canada&#8217;s Parliament?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a Globe and Mail editorial yesterday, affirmative action is needed to make the Canadian Parliament reflect &#8220;inclusivity and diversity.&#8221; Why? Because there are fewer women than men. See also Janet McFarlane&#8217;s column today: &#8220;Where are the female politicians?&#8221;
I can&#8217;t help wonder: Did it never occur to the Globe&#8217;s editorial board that perhaps the majority of women really don&#8217;t want [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/01/12/affirmative-action-needed-in-canadas-parliament/</link>
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		<title>Lower than a Dog?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a great lover of Canis lupus (scientific Latin name for dog), being called lower than a dog isn’t necessarily an insult to me, but this story bears telling.  My aunt lives on a farm with a number of animals, including several dogs.  Two of them are a “couple,” a male and female [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2010/01/01/lower-than-a-dog/</link>
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		<title>Dreaming of the Queen &#8211; Republic vs Commonwealth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 2010 Queen Elizabeth II is scheduled to come to Canada .  Her visit follows that earlier this year of her son Charles and his wife Camilla.  I suspect that the Queen’s visit will garner some coverage in the press but not much attention among the general public.  Unlike her glamorous late [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cynicsunlimited.com/2009/12/28/dreaming-of-the-queen-republic-vs-commonwealth/</link>
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