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	<title>warmed-over soapboxes</title>
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	<description>clever would be nice</description>
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		<title>How I explain to my students what  Venn diagram is</title>
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/03/how-i-explain-to-my-students-what-venn-diagram-is/</link>
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		<title>Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, you lie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Spokane corridor just got $35m in federal gov&#8217;t money to fund a transportation initiative. According to her press release, my House representative, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, calls the project &#8220;precisely the type of project the government should be funding.&#8221; She goes on to say she voted against the stimulus package because &#8220;it didn’t include enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/02/cathy-mcmorris-rodgers-lies/</link>
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		<title>Oh, the places we&#8217;d go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since my husband abandoned me on a weekend that held not just Valentine&#8217;s Day but also a three-day holiday, I went on a dreaming spree. And boy, is he paying for it: he has to listen and marshal counterarguments to my willfulness. Which pretty much defines our marriage, come to think of it, only this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/02/dream/</link>
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		<title>In which hell freezes over and I praise Meghan McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My descent into post-football depression has been momentarily waylaid: Far be it from me to praise the Huffington Post, which I despise for its muckraking and sensationalism and the way it commits every logical fallacy it accuses Fox News of perpetrating, but I was perusing it this morning (as I do most mornings for my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/02/in-which-hell-freezes-over-and-i-praise-meghan-mccain/</link>
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		<title>My fellow Americans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wonder if there is any truth in my current perception that George Orwell is the last unifier of American politics: it seems conservatives fear America becoming that which was depicted in 1984, whereas liberals believe the Bush administration turned the country into Animal Farm. Perhaps I am wrong. Either way, from him comes the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/02/my-fellow-americans/</link>
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		<title>Rising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking that Dutch Bros. should sell a Monday-morning, week-starter beverage that loosely involves about five shots of coffee and a pound of sugar (pure cane, of course; none of that corn syrup rubbish). I think today that, and only that, beverage could get me started on the mound &#8212; nay, butte &#8212; of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/02/rising/</link>
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		<title>Restless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unfulfilling books and angsty short films make me restless.
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/restless/</link>
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		<title>Necessarily vague</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I said, &#8220;We need A; B will specifically not work because&#8230;.&#8221; You replied &#8212; and I paraphrase just slightly &#8212; &#8220;B is the only option. A is too hard.&#8221;
Thanks a lot. You&#8217;re a real credit to your organization.
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/necessarily-vague/</link>
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		<title>Little teapot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not know if memory is serving or disserving me, but I recall some time ago when my sister offered me a teapot that had been our grandmother&#8217;s. I was excited to have something of hers, as she died when I was six and I barely remember her. What I do remember is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/little-teapot/</link>
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		<title>Fan spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This latest spam comment got caught in my filter, and I&#8217;ve let it languish there for a few days because it makes me smile. In fact, it almost made me wish I were good enough at something to have fans:
Substantially, the post is really the sweetest on this notable topic. I agree with your conclusions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/fan-spam/</link>
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		<title>Metabitching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I do not understand why people bitch about other people&#8217;s happiness.
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/metabitching/</link>
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		<title>On the climate change debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading this article about climate change consensus unraveling and recalling the snafu of hacked climate e-mails makes me &#8212; and hopefully a lot of people &#8212; sit back and think. I&#8217;m pretty committed to having a small carbon footprint and living in an ecologically and environmentally conservative manner. Recently I&#8217;ve gotten pretty excited about tiny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/on-the-climate-change-debate/</link>
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		<title>An ode haiku to my Snuggie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Working all morning
You, smothering my body
Snuggie, my Snuggie!
NFL playoffs
Cursing Chargers and Cowboys
Snuggie me closer
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/an-ode-haiku-to-my-snuggie/</link>
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		<title>Good morning! It&#8217;s &#8212; wait, what? FFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning marked the beginning of my most recent foray into narcissism: teaching evenings and early mornings. In fact, I teach every evening at the prison from 6 to 8:30, and then I teach an early morning class on Tuesdays and Thursdays. How early? Good question.
Until, oh, about 6:53 a.m. this morning I thought the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/good-morning-its-wait-what-fffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu/</link>
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		<title>Back to prison. Er, school.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today ends the three-week &#8220;vacation&#8221; that people think teachers get during holidays. While a considerable amount of time was spent with family and their screaming progeny as well as preparing for and partying in the new year, a significant amount was spent getting ready for this new term. And Internets, I am frightened: I have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/back-to-prison-er-school/</link>
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		<title>Resolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever actually made a New Year&#8217;s resolution. Certainly I&#8217;ve never kept one. But this year, there are some things I&#8217;d definitely like to do and see. So my resolution is to go exploring. Hopefully that will include lots of fishing.
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2010/01/resolution/</link>
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		<title>Over under</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am making red lamé underwear for my husband.
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		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2009/12/over-unde/</link>
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		<title>On religous rhetoric: Watch where you&#8217;re sticking that preposition!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, as my disenchantment with religion has grown, I&#8217;ve become more and more annoyed with the clichéd rhetoric of the establishment. I find the clichés to be both careless and thoughtless in general communication; to unbelievers, skeptics and cynics, religious clichés are the epitome of the thoughtless, dogma-driven dribble that is the worst, not the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chelseywaters.com/soapbox/2009/12/religious-rhetoric/</link>
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