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	<description>Welcome to Off on a Tangent, the online repository where I share my creative endeavors with the world.  Inside you will find fiction, news, commentary, poetry, music, and more that I have produced over the years and am still producing today.  I am always open to feedback, so please don&#039;t hesitate to contact me or leave a comment and share your thoughts!</description>
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		<title>The Land of Twits</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/10/the-land-of-twits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No offense to my Twitter-using friends, but I just don&#8217;t get it. I understand Facebook. I understood MySpace (though it was poorly implemented and annoying, and thus rightfully lost its leadership position). Blogger and LiveJournal each made sense to me in their days. Even when I didn&#8217;t use these systems, or when I drug my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Lawsuit of the Month</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/09/stupid-lawsuit-of-the-month/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, we now have a winner: washed-up former child star Lindsay Lohan has emerged from rehab long enough to file the Stupid Lawsuit of the Month. You may know the E*Trade advertisements with the talking baby. In one of these ads, the talking baby is chatting with his talking baby girlfriend about why he hadn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich People Must Be Following Me</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/08/rich-people-must-be-following-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of the last decade I lived in Fairfax County, VA…and for most of that time, Fairfax County was ranked as the richest county in the United States (even with folks like me dragging down the averages ;-)). Last year, Melissa and I moved to neighboring Loudoun County, VA and now, no thanks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ladies: Would You Wear These Shoes?</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/07/ladies-would-you-wear-these-shoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at Target today picking up a number of random things, and Melissa dragged me to the shoe aisle where I noticed…this.
I&#8217;ve noticed that many of my female friends have been complaining lately that the clothing styles are really bad this year, and I&#8217;m starting to understand what they mean. I cannot think of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Det. Mike Baylor Won&#8217;t Be Fired</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/04/det-mike-baylor-wont-be-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even in gun-friendly Virginia, where it is perfectly legal to carry a holstered firearm openly, it is a crime to &#8216;brandish&#8217; that firearm in the hand except when there is a serious reason (like, for example, to deter an attack by a violent criminal). In Washington, D.C., it&#8217;s not even legal for a normal citizen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Kitty Advertisement</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/03/strange-kitty-advertisement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 03:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a commercial illustrator has to be an interesting job. It has to be a strange mix of actual creativity and design-by-committee and, as countless examples in advertising demonstrate, sometimes it works well and sometimes it doesn&#8217;t.
I guess if you&#8217;ve convinced me to stop, look at an ad, and take its picture you might call [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Palm WebOS 1.4</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/03/02/palm-webos-1-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, mere days after posting my in-depth review of the Palm Pre Plus and the Palm WebOS operating system, the much-anticipated WebOS 1.4 update came out. The updated operating system was released on Saturday, February 27 to Sprint customers, and Sunday, February 28 to Verizon customers like Melissa and me.
Palm&#8217;s update mechanism is dummy-proof: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Weekend Pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/02/28/random-weekend-pictures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<title>Majority See Government As a Threat</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/02/26/majority-see-government-as-a-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.scottbradford.us/?p=4177</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Government is a threat. Sound crazy? It didn&#8217;t to the founders of our country who, after witnessing the ostensibly-republican government of Britain&#8217;s despotism toward them, crafted a government for the new United States of America that would have strictly limited and broadly distributed powers and authorities. They saw government un-checked as a threat to liberty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hooray for Health Insurance</title>
		<link>http://www.scottbradford.us/2010/02/25/hooray-for-health-insurance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 04:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Bradford</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not generally a fan of medical insurance companies, but boy do I appreciate them at times like this. I just got our claim information for Melissa&#8217;s surgery in January.
The total hospital bill was $21,823.93, but we only have to pay $385.51. Not bad, huh?
Keep in mind too that this is just the hospital stuff. [...]]]></description>
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