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		<title>&#8220;Don&#8217;t Tell Me What I Can&#8217;t Do.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2010/02/dont-tell-me-what-i-cant-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After last week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;LOST&#8221; I head up to my bedroom. It smelt like sulfur. How fitting.
Locke&#8217;s signature line &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me what I can&#8217;t do!&#8221; ripples through me like ice cold razor wire oscillating in the winter wind.
Once, in November 2006, I participated in a weekend workshop where people go &#8211; if you&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Best Days of My Life.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 03:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Best Days of My Life&#8221; by Todd M. Fay
Welcome to my everyday life
Sitting here just wasting all our time
Let’s pretend that everything’s just fine
But we both know we’re never getting out of here alive 
These are the best days of my life
Still I am searching for a sign
To show me I’ll be free again
Break down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Agnostic Shift.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am trying desperately to understand God, and the universe we live in.
Catholic Roots
I came into the world to Catholic parents. I left the church unceremoniously. I didn&#8217;t receive my confirmation &#8211; the coming of age ceremony in Catholicism &#8211; and it was my choice. I chose not to get confirmed because I wasn&#8217;t ready [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Bondage to Bondage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: Originally published on my Myspace.com blog on November 16, 2007.
Quoting Alexander Tyler (an 18th Century Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh) reflecting on the demise of the Athenian Republic 2,000 years earlier:
&#8220;A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will continue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power of the People. Fear of the People.</title>
		<link>http://www.toddmfay.com/2009/09/power-of-the-people-fear-of-the-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:17:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Todd M. Fay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An acquaintance from my political life recently quoted the following:
“Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt: Those without power cannot defend freedom.”
My sentiment is this:
A lack of power is not what afflicts us. We have the power; always have. What we have is a surplus of ignorance. We ignore the fact that each of us, some day, [...]]]></description>
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