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	<title>LONG BENCH</title>
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	<description>To draw long bench (v): to set aside time to have deliberate conversations about complex matters of consequence e.g. "'tory deh fe tell but long bench nuh deh fe draw." (Louise 'Miss Lou' Bennett)</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Esmin Green died alone</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/esmin-green-died-alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are tragedies that unfold everyday, but some of them are really too much to handle.  This is one of them.
The greatest fear that many, including myself, carry with them is that they will die alone.
Esmin Green died alone.
Dying alone usually occurs when the circumstance of the death was unexpected, or when a person [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Problems with Plastic</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/problems-with-plastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[environment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://longbench.wordpress.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, China banned the free distribution of plastic bags in grocery stores et. al.   I bet they are still producing and exporting them en masse though.
From the anecdotal information offered in a newsarticle some months back, we could certainly do with a little bit of public education on this front.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bag o&#8217; mout strikes again!</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/bag-o-mout-strikes-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[corruption]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Carlin moment for sure: garbage in, garbage out.
What is wrong with these politicians?  Navel Clarke says hoteliers tiefing the tips from hotel workers.  Well, everybody shoulda&#8217; know dat already, right?  But, if you is a senator, an you goin&#8217; make a federal case out of the issue, you have to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visual Violence</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/visual-violence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That picture in today&#8217;s Flair just took me places.  Here is the letter I just fired off to the editor.
To whom it may concern:
Any thinking person will recognize that the Jamaican media takes a gratuitous and perverse pleasure in serving up images of violence to us on a daily basis.  Amping up the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Danville&#8217;s Call to Arms</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/danvilles-call-to-arms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jamaica]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://longbench.wordpress.com/?p=123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Published in today&#8217;s paper is a strong uncompromising statement by Danville Walker on the murder of Douglas Chambers.  Danville&#8217;s message to those so invested in the status quo: when yuh a dig grave fi me, mek sure seh yuh dig one fi yuhself.  
But, watch and listen this week as the chattering classes equivocate and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gagging Dissent</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/gagging-dissent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PM Golding has invoked the Staff Orders rule that says governmental officials must keep their traps shut when their individual positions conflict with existing gov&#8217;t policy.  Not an atypical move for him to make.  But, it really does and should sweet us when we see cracks in the veneer of retrograde, unsubstantiated policies, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Radical Humour with George Carlin</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/radical-humour-with-george-carlin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://longbench.wordpress.com/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard that he died.  I am not a huge fan of comedy - most of it is vacuous crap that I swear I could hear at the bus stop or on the street.  But, this guy is one of the few comedians I have actually stopped to watch and listen to on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet I will&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/yet-i-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://longbench.wordpress.com/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past couple days, I&#8217;ve been meditating on Kei Miller&#8217;s book of poems There is An Anger That Moves.   It is the only work of poetry that I have read over and over again in one sitting, carting around in my bag like it was a jujustring, a talisman against silence.
Kei seh [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marjorie Lewis made my week!</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/marjorie-lewis-made-my-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[homophobia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, the Gleaner notes that Rev. Dr. Marjorie Lewis, of United Theological College - WI, offers a strong criticism - rebuke is really more apt - of PM Golding&#8217;s ass-backwards stance where he claimed that he would exclude gays and lesbian MP&#8217;s from participating in his Cabinet (on a side note, the man obviously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did he really say that?</title>
		<link>http://longbench.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/did-he-really-say-that/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is innate in us to reserve the best for visitors and treat them even better than we treat ourselves. That is why there are so few crimes against them. In our homes, we were taught at an early age to use the best china only when strangers come.&#8221;  Harry Smith
If this is what [...]]]></description>
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