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		<title>My Thoughts on &#8220;Death Pools&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 22:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Death Pool]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who don&#8217;t know, &#8220;death pools&#8221; involve wagering of some kind as to which celebrities will die next, over the upcoming year, or some other defined time period. A friend (who will be identified only as &#8220;Lazer&#8221;) asked me who I thought would be good candidates for such a poll. I came up with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1760&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Post-War Hatred</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/on-post-war-hatred/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confederate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[England]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Great Britain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grudge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pearl Harbor Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Word War II]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With today being Pearl Harbor Day, a quandary I have had many times came up. The issue is this &#8211; for how long after a war/attack/persecution is a people allowed to hate the other party? The examples are many, and yet perhaps somewhat inconsistent. People would look at me like I was insane if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1750&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hey air-traffic controllers &#8211; can we have a word for a minute?</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/hey-air-traffic-controllers-can-we-have-a-word-for-a-minute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Air-Traffic Controllers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airplane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avi&#039;s Cogitations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there. You have been entrusted with a vital job in the workforce. It is on your shoulders to make sure that every single person that flies through the air lands safely. I get it. I think that you have one the more thankless jobs in this country, because nobody will ever hear your name [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1740&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A pet peeve of mine about many TV shows</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/a-pet-peeve-of-mine-about-many-tv-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pet Peeve]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I may be the only person with this hang-up, but why does there has to be sexual tension among the main characters of a show? Can’t it just be that people fight crime, be funny, or whatever the other main plot-lines are nowadays? It takes away the focus on what is otherwise a good show. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1732&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The interesting history of Abercrombie &amp; Fitch</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/the-interesting-history-of-abercrombie-fitch/</link>
		<comments>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/25/the-interesting-history-of-abercrombie-fitch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Abercrombie & Fitch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Avi&#039;s Cogitations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theodore Roosevelt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As a rule, I find Abercrombie &#38; Fitch an abhorrent company. Something about them always rubbed me the wrong way. Do we need to see topless models to know if we want to buy a forty dollar t-shirt? It&#8217;s elitist nonsense, in my opinion. Shopping there is like owning a Hummer in New York City [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1725&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s buttons are on opposite sides</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/why-mens-and-womens-buttons-are-on-opposite-sides/</link>
		<comments>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/23/why-mens-and-womens-buttons-are-on-opposite-sides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Avi&#039;s Cogitations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Buttons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled upon this frame from a comic and it brought back a question that I&#8217;ve had for many years that I&#8217;d never bothered to look up why. It turns out, this comic appears to be pretty accurate. Some more detail courtesy of Ask Yahoo: &#8230;suggests that in the 19th century, well-heeled Victorian women generally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1717&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Sagittarius so I like cold weather.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/im-a-sagittarius-so-i-like-cold-weather/</link>
		<comments>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/im-a-sagittarius-so-i-like-cold-weather/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Avi&#039;s Cogitations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nonsense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sagittarius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was in the elevator today and the topic of the weather came up. As though he had just told me the color of his shirt, or the time, my co-passenger just blurted out about how his &#8220;sign&#8221; leads him to like a certain type of weather. I had no idea that this was even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1710&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A &#8216;thank you&#8217; to Denny&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/a-thank-you-to-dennys/</link>
		<comments>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/11/a-thank-you-to-dennys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Avi&#039;s Cogitations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delicious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denny's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was raised only eating kosher food, and I never really felt the desire to eat non-kosher. Denny&#8217;s has started making a food item I want to eat. Now. Behold! Fried cheese melt, made with four fried mozzarella sticks and melted American cheese grilled between two slices of sourdough bread. It is served with French [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1706&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Feed of the Week: Tweets from History</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/twitter-feed-of-the-week-tweets-from-history/</link>
		<comments>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/twitter-feed-of-the-week-tweets-from-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 18:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tweets From History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Twitter Feed of the Week]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[OK, so normally there is a site of the week, and technically the tweets can be found on a website, but it&#8217;s really a Twitter feed. This feed is another place you can find &#8220;historical&#8221; tweets, short humorous messages that historical figures might tweet. I have pasted only some of the hilarious ones you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1700&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A post for Adam G</title>
		<link>http://aviscogitations.wordpress.com/2010/07/28/a-post-for-adam-g/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:15:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Avi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is for Adam and Adam only<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=aviscogitations.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1923749&amp;post=1699&amp;subd=aviscogitations&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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