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		<title>Child beauty pageants&#8212;Do they sexualize young girls?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>celticchick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Child beauty pageants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Column: Geez, Who Peed In Your Pepsi?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelley Heckart]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across an article about child beauty pageants that kind of shocked me. I never really gave this much thought before and never watched the TLC show Toddlers and Tiaras. From what I read and the pictures I saw, these young girls parade around in revealing outfits, wear tons of makeup and act in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7478&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WILLIAM MALTESE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL #17 “PORNooooooooooooooooo!”</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryl R. Tyne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column: Between Heaven and Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Erotica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Maltese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writer Tips & Tricks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fag is not for Burning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Five Roads to Tlen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Master Black]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Starship Intercourse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pornography — hard and soft. Porn! Porno! Porno! Porno! Porn! I mention the preceding because I recently read that any blog that even mentions “pornography” usually ends up getting more hits and traffic than do blogs that don’t mention it. Of course, it’s not as if I don’t have something to say on the subject, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7458&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Killing wolves again</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>celticchick</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Column: Geez, Who Peed In Your Pepsi?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kelley Heckart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sawtooth Wolf Pack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wolves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[controversy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Endangered Species Act]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I thought the country was on the right track in the mid-1990s when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released 66 wolves in Yellowstone and central Idaho. Finally, the wolf had returned from extinction. But in April of 2011 Congress removed wolves in Montana and Idaho from the protection of the Endangered Species Act. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7451&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WILLIAM MALTESE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL #16 — IT’S THE HOLIDAYS!  SO, PIG OUT … GET FAT … AND, THEN, BUY “EVEN GOURMANDS HAVE TO DIET!”</title>
		<link>http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2011/12/17/william-maltese-between-heaven-and-hell-16-its-the-holidays-so-pig-out-get-fat-and-then-buy-even-gourmands-have-to-diet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryl R. Tyne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column: Between Heaven and Hell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[William Maltese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Adrienne Z. Milligan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bonnie Clark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookbook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cookbooks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dieting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gourmand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gourmet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday cooking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hottie Spice Mix]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spokane]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Heart of Spokane gift boutique]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of the year when everyone, including me, chows down, pigs out, and, likely, despite all of our resolves to the contrary, still gains unwanted weight. &#160; As if it’s not already difficult for me to stay thin, what with two cookbooks out — THE GLUTEN FREE WAY: MY WAY —with Adrienne Z. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7427&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Way: Missing in Action</title>
		<link>http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/my-way-missing-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryl R. Tyne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bryl R. Tyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Column: My Way]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GLBT or LGBT Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[divinity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Embrace the Rainbow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[riptide publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Safe Reading Zone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve been. MIA. Totally blew off my last column because I was partying in New Orleans at the first annual GayRomLit. But I&#8217;m back now, been back a couple months now, and once again, settled down, so there&#8217;s no &#8220;excuse&#8221; for me not posting a column. Not the two edits that are due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7421&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christian and Pagan holidays</title>
		<link>http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2011/11/23/christian-and-pagan-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Angel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Column: Angel's Corner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Column: Paganism and reality]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend brought to my attention a rant she had over the Wiccans and Pagans not getting their holidays versus Christians demanding that we not offend their rights. Well, I have to agree with her. If they want the respect they deserve, why can we have ours? Since the days of Author and Merlyn, our &#8220;kind&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7417&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kardashians&#8212;Is their 15 minutes of fame over?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>celticchick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that the Kardashian family has finally done something so horrible that people have started a petition and a campaign on Facebook to get them off of the E! Channel. Did they kill someone? No. Did they get arrested for a felony? Nope. I guess all it took for a hate campaign against them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7414&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WILLIAM MALTESE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL (#15)   IS THAT A SNAKE IN YOUR PANTS; OR, ARE YOU JUST HAPPY TO SEE ME?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 05:36:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bryl R. Tyne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Column: Between Heaven and Hell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Excerpt from m/f JUNGLE-QUEST INTRIGUE by William Maltese — Laura awoke to dense morning mist clinging to the water and among the trees. Kurt and Jim were already up, and the smells they’d produced with powdered eggs and dehydrated potatoes were a joy to the senses, even if the reality didn’t live up to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7399&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little extra from &#8220;Angel in the Middle&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 12:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mariedees</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi all, Since we&#8217;re just past Halloween, I&#8217;m going to go for a little extra &#8220;treat&#8221; today, but with a &#8220;trick.&#8221; My newest M/M paranormal erotica just released. Chapter 1 is available on the Liquid Silver Books website here. The trick is, you&#8217;ll have to go to the publisher&#8217;s site to read Chapter 1. But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7391&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seasonal Topical Re-post:  Why Iron Maiden Didn&#8217;t play the song &#8216;Transylvania&#8217; in Transylvania</title>
		<link>http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/seasonal-topical-re-post-why-iron-maiden-didnt-play-the-song-transylvania-in-transylvania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>helgaleena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article originally appeared in my Druid blog at http://wp.me/py9sz-Y I thought we might want to gaze upon the splendour of space zombie Eddie the Head while discussing global events and the effect of the arts. Better late than never&#8211; I think I know why Iron Maiden did not play the song &#8220;Transylvania&#8221; in Cluj,Transylvania [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7733860&amp;post=7386&amp;subd=thepaganandthepen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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