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		<title>Cowboy Libertarian talks &#8216;nut cuttin&#8217; time&#8217; in new book</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/09/27/cowboy-libertarian-talks-nut-cuttin-time-in-new-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2012 23:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 presidential election]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Cowboy Libertarian and ex-California Republican Party communications director Patrick Dorinson has a new book out just in time for the 2012 general election called &#8220;It&#8217;s Nut Cuttin&#8217; Time America!&#8221; For the uninitiated, &#8220;nut cutting&#8221; refers to that pivotal moment in a male calf&#8217;s life when a bull becomes a steer. Or castration, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frankly, Scarlett, I don&#8217;t give a &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2012/02/21/frankly-scarlett-i-dont-give-a/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cowboy Libertarian blogger Patrick Dorinson pens an essay on how government operates on the Scarlett O&#8217;Hara Theory of Government: Our current crop of politicians operates according to the Scarlett O’Hara Theory of Government based on the main character in Margaret Mitchell’s 1938 classic “Gone with the Wind”.  Its main tenet was expressed neatly by Scarlett [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trump out but poster is a keeper</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/05/16/trump-out-but-poster-is-a-keeper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 May 2011 20:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 presidential primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[donald trump]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Businessman Donald Trump is out of the presidential primary contest but the humor of his candidacy will live on. Had he run, would his campaign theme song been &#8220;Hair?&#8221; (Full disclosure: I stole that line from the reader who sent me this poster.)]]></description>
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		<title>A musical primary post-mortem</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/06/09/a-musical-primary-post-mortem/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/06/09/a-musical-primary-post-mortem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I’m having a good day, or sometimes when I’m down, I sometimes give myself a gift on the limited budget available to me as a reporter: a 99-cent splurge on new iTunes song for my iPod. And so as the primary election winners strut and the losers lick their wounds, here are a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jay Leno praises Lesher Speaker Series?</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/03/18/jay-leno-mentions-lesher-speaker-series/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Lesher, the driving force behind Newsmakers, the annual Lesher Speaker Series, may have been exaggerating just a tiny bit when the event&#8217;s inaugural speaker, funny man Jay Leno, mentioned the Lesher Center for the Arts on the Tonight Show. &#8220;He talked about how it is the greatest venue in all of California, and how appearing at Newsmakers was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brown in the nude? TMI!</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/01/20/brown-in-the-nude-tmi/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/01/20/brown-in-the-nude-tmi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have great readers who send me stuff including this link to Cosmo&#8217;s web site, where you can see the 1982 nearly-nude pictures of Sen.-elect Scott Brown, R-Mass. My goodness. And here I thought Cosmo was just a place to find out the latest advance in mascara technology. But the link got us to talking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Nixon Halloween mask? Say it ain&#8217;t so</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/08/no-nixon-halloween-mask-say-it-aint-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/10/08/no-nixon-halloween-mask-say-it-aint-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine scoured the central Contra Costa Halloween costume stores this week and could not (insert gasp here) find a Richard Nixon mask. This is not right. We can&#8217;t have Halloween without bands of trick-or-treaters roaming the suburbs wearing Tricky Dick masks. Instead, Times photographer Karl Mondon found this Veep Dick Cheney mask, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Turkeys at the Contra Costa Times? Say it ain&#8217;t so &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/07/10/turkeys-at-the-contra-costa-times-say-it-aint-so/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/07/10/turkeys-at-the-contra-costa-times-say-it-aint-so/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:16:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gary Bogue]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turkeys have invaded the Shadelands business park in Walnut Creek where the Contra Costa Times&#8217; offices are located. Times columnist Gary Bogue tells me a flock of six turkeys has been hanging out in the neighborhood for a few months. Hmmm. Is this where out-of-work-reporters go?]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-troll device now available</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/13/anti-troll-device-now-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/13/anti-troll-device-now-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 22:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where can I buy a can of this?]]></description>
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		<title>Get your own Obama &#8216;First Pair&#8217; cut-out dolls</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/13/get-your-own-obama-first-pair-cut-out-dolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/05/13/get-your-own-obama-first-pair-cut-out-dolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 21:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Vorderbrueggen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[political humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[People send all kinds of stuff to the newsroom and every once in a while, something fun shows up on my desk. In June, St. Martin&#8217;s Press will release its Barack and Michelle Obama paper doll and cut-out book by John Boswell and illustrated by Randy Jones and Susann Ferris Jones. Dress up your very [...]]]></description>
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