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		<itunes:summary>This is humor columnist Scott Green as you have never heard him before:  With your ears.  Scott has been making readers spit coffee out their noses for years, even when they were not drinking coffee, though he admits this is largely due to his appearance.  The Scott Green Podcast:  Illiteracy has never been so much fun.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>I&#8217;m getting married</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/05/31/im-getting-married/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scott Says Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wondering why there haven&#8217;t been any posts for a couple weeks?
This Sunday I get married.
Regular columns will resume by the end of June.  In the meantime, here&#8217;s a roundup of stuff I&#8217;ve written about the process &#8211; getting engaged, registering for gifts, not forming personal opinions, etc.:
How I engaged my favorite reader &#8211; the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our newest justice, after these messages</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/05/03/our-newest-justice-after-these-messages-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 14:47:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American Idol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two facts that seem, on their face, unrelated:
1.  Barack Obama is about to choose John Paul Stevens’ replacement on the Supreme Court.
2.  “American Idol” is still the top rated show in America.
I think you see where I’m going with this:  Stevens should beat Simon Cowell to death with his gavel.
If that’s not practical, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Ebert one-ups the Internet</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/26/roger-ebert-one-ups-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/26/roger-ebert-one-ups-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[University of Illinois]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all I’ve learned about the Internet, I know that if I say anything negative about video games, a lot of very passionate individuals are going to threaten my life with authentic replica broadswords.
So when Roger Ebert wrote in his blog last week that video games don’t count as art, I feared the worst.  You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Something about televised baseball doesn&#8217;t add up</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/15/something-about-televised-baseball-doesnt-add-up/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/15/something-about-televised-baseball-doesnt-add-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athletes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Idiots]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottsays.com/?p=775</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve earned TV treating us like idiots.  This is the nation that gets emotionally invested enough to call a hotline to determine whether Pamela Anderson or Evan Lysacek is the better dancer.
So I’m not surprised, as we start the 2010 baseball season, that broadcasts still feature outdated statistics.  You know what I mean.  A guy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Showering with 40 or 50 women</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/08/showering-with-40-or-50-women/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/08/showering-with-40-or-50-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any couple in need of housewares should definitely be the guests of honor at several dozen bridal showers.  My fiancée, Michelle, and I recently had this pleasure, and will never need to buy another melon baller.
Showers are women-intensive get-togethers that occur during important conference basketball games.  The idea is, guests bring gifts to commemorate an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spoiled by spoilers, but &#8220;Lost&#8221; without them</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/01/spoiled-by-spoilers-but-lost-without-them/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/04/01/spoiled-by-spoilers-but-lost-without-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 21:11:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author’s note:  Although this column is about the ending of “Lost,” it contains no spoilers.  I have gone to great lengths to avoid revealing, for example, that the smoke monster is actually Keyser Soze.  Also:  Oz was Dorothy’s dream.  Thank you.
I’m an American, which means I feel entitled to whatever I want, whenever I want [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Moses, it&#8217;s still the story of Passover</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/03/29/holy-moses-its-the-story-of-passover-2/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/03/29/holy-moses-its-the-story-of-passover-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Classic Scott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Holidays]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To commemorate the first Passover seder tonight, please enjoy this classic column originally published April 17, 2008.  If you are attending a seder, feel free to read it out loud, particularly if you do not wish to be invited back next year. 
Of all the Jewish holidays, Passover is definitely the only  one that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stork droppings</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/03/26/stork-droppings/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/03/26/stork-droppings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s normal for guy friends to exploit each other’s insecurities.  For example, I’m self-conscious about getting older, which my friend Matt exploited by having a baby.
Technically, his wife Kelly had the baby.  (She did the work, so I’m giving her the credit.)  Matt did help out a little:  he caught little Isabelle as she emerged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A really, really large SCAM</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/03/02/a-really-really-large-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/03/02/a-really-really-large-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Idiots]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://scottsays.com/?p=647</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good journalists use sharp, precise language to convey ideas clearly.  Pfft.  What I’m trying to do here is write a column about largeness and smallness issues affecting the private portions of our anatomies without using words that get this column filtered for content.
What does that mean for me, your Sex Column Answer Man?  I’ll employ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re Ghana love the Snow Leopard</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/02/18/youre-ghana-love-the-snow-leopard/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/02/18/youre-ghana-love-the-snow-leopard/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Athletes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sure the Winter Olympics have been beset by problems like the torch lighting snafu and the murderous luge track and that Vancouver’s been 74 and sunny.  But the viewing audience has largely overlooked these problems, because we’ve overlooked the entire Olympics.
Granted, ratings are high.  But it’s not to watch the majesty of competition.  It’s because, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing how Chicago democracy Sootts me</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/02/02/seeing-how-chicago-democracy-sootts-me/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/02/02/seeing-how-chicago-democracy-sootts-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Partisanship]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I cast my first ballot as a Chicago voter, and I’m nervous because I don’t think the city wants me.  The first proof I had was my registration card, made out to one “Soott Green.”
My guess is that when I get to my polling place, I’ll be handed a ballot with “suggested” candidates already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walking down the aisle&#8230; at Bed Bath &amp; Beyond</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/01/19/walking-down-the-aisle-at-bed-bath-beyond/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2010/01/19/walking-down-the-aisle-at-bed-bath-beyond/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 19:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Commerce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michelle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It takes a lot of work to get married:  selecting a venue; whittling the guest list; designing the invitations; receiving gifts.
I never thought getting presents would be so difficult.  I assumed I’d just send my fiancée, Michelle, to a couple of showers and she’d come home with gifts we could enjoy as a couple, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rich like Mario</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2010/01/05/rich-like-mario/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I ever want to become stinking rich, I need to spend all my money.  This is according to my radio, which implores me to buy as much gold as I can get my hands on.  Via commercials from Goldline International, Inc.:
“GOLD!  It’s the soundest investment you can make, moreso even than collector plates.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;But the firearms are so delightful</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/12/22/but-the-firearms-are-so-delightful/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/12/22/but-the-firearms-are-so-delightful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:48:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Violence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[To stay safe this holiday season you’ll want to follow standard winter protocol, such as not coming to a snowball fight without a gun.
This was the error made by hundreds of residents of Washington, D.C., who went to a little-used intersection in the city during last weekend’s blizzard.  The event was hastily arranged on Twitter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Jewish Christmas</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/12/15/merry-jewish-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m tired of all this holiday spirit.  Not the festive atmosphere of peace and goodwill to all who aren’t attempting to buy the same Twilight merchandise as you.  The spirit of the word “holiday,” as in people telling each other “Happy Holidays,” when they’re really wishing is Merry Christmas plus a New Year’s hangover that’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save BIG by botching your own plastic surgery</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/12/07/save-big-by-botching-your-own-plastic-surgery/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/12/07/save-big-by-botching-your-own-plastic-surgery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Commerce]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve noticed there are a lot of unattractive people out there, and I’d really like to do something to help them give me money.
There’s a lot to be made because as a species, humans are obsessed with looking younger, thinner and prettier.  There is an evolutionary reason for this:  back in caveman days, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The tale of the Black Friday pilgrims</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/30/the-tale-of-the-black-friday-pilgrims/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This classic Scott Green column was originally published November 29, 2007.  Scott returns with an all-new column Monday, December 7.


Around harvest season in 1621, a year in which the funny hat supply ran devastatingly low, the Pilgrims hosted a feast with whichever of the local Indians they had not yet killed.  And when it came [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Tis the season to hit potholes</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/23/tis-the-season-to-hit-potholes/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/23/tis-the-season-to-hit-potholes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No city gets into the holiday spirit like Chicago, which is why, by statute, city potholes must be large enough to fit Santa.
Potholes are a major civic annoyance that appear seasonally and are usually sloshy, like Cubs fans.  Though unlike Cubs fans they cause tire damage, so you don’t want to drive them over with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Act now and we&#8217;ll throw in Decatur!</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/16/act-now-and-well-throw-in-decatur/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/16/act-now-and-well-throw-in-decatur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope your finances are in order because if you don’t act right now, you’ll miss your chance to purchase historic Illinois.
Think about what you’d be getting:  the place where Abraham Lincoln practiced law; the state from which Abraham Lincoln was elected President; the land where Abraham Lincoln is buried; the home of the ’85 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ill Bill</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/09/ill-bill/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/09/ill-bill/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 04:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it’s wonderful the House has passed health care reform legislation.  Not on the merits of the bill.  It’s not like the thing will become an actual law during my lifetime.  What I’m excited about is that with all the yelling and name-calling and baseless accusations, congressmen in both houses haven’t had time to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not to alarm you, but the universe is missing</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/02/not-to-alarm-you-but-the-universe-is-missing/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/11/02/not-to-alarm-you-but-the-universe-is-missing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this week’s installment of Scott Solves Your Everyday Problems, I’ll get to the bottom of this pesky issue of the 96 percent of the universe that’s gone missing.
I’m not making up this problem.  I learned about it in Michael Brooks’ new book, “Thirteen Things That Don’t Make Sense.”  We can be certain it’s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Staying razor-sharp on Halloween</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/26/staying-razor-sharp-on-halloween/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/26/staying-razor-sharp-on-halloween/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This classic Scott Green column was originally published October 31, 2007.  Scott returns from vacation with an all-new column Monday, November 2.


It’s Halloween again, the time of year American children go trick-or-treating only to have their candy taken away because there might be a razor blade in there.
This was the warning when I was little, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AAAHH!!!  REAL LAWSUITS</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/19/aaahh-real-lawsuits/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/19/aaahh-real-lawsuits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:02:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to know what this country’s coming to when a humble little multinational conglomerate can’t sell its energy drink without some mom-and-pop brewery making a beverage whose name contains many of the same letters.
The Hansen Beverage Company, which makes Monster Energy Drink, learned the Rock Art Brewery, a small hard beverage company in Morrisville, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For athletes, a Nobel example of peace</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/12/for-athletes-a-nobel-example-of-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/12/for-athletes-a-nobel-example-of-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama does not celebrate victory like a normal person.  A normal person, finding out he has won the Nobel Peace Prize, would post it on Facebook, then run around firing his gun into the air.
But not Obama, the kind of guy who celebrates by adding an extra teaspoon of sweetener to his Mueslix.  Nothing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blame, and other Games for Chicago 2016</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/05/blame-and-other-games-for-chicago-2016/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/10/05/blame-and-other-games-for-chicago-2016/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve had a few days to digest the International Olympic Committee’s rejection of Chicago as host of the 2016 Summer Games, so it’s time to calmly and maturely reflect on whom to blame.
One option is President Obama, who gave a speech as part of Chicago’s final presentation.  Obama failed to win over enough IOC members, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The abstinence SCAM</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/29/the-abstinence-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/29/the-abstinence-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor Columns]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I plan on having kids someday, and I have no doubt the clever little bastards will track down their dad’s old humor columns.  So let me state for the record that abstinence is the most important thing on the planet, with the possible exceptions of vegetable-eating and not bothering me during Bears games.
As Sex Column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At Wrigley, Blago just another loser</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/21/at-wrigley-blago-just-another-loser/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/21/at-wrigley-blago-just-another-loser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rod Blagojevich is no stranger to losing causes.  He was removed from the Illinois governor’s office.  He wanted President Obama to name him Secretary of Health and Human Services.  He’s a Cubs fan.
I learned the last one Thursday afternoon, when Blagojevich sat in the row behind me at Wrigley Field.  He was at the game [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WedTV</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/14/wedtv/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/14/wedtv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 23:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was deeply in love with my girlfriend and couldn’t see spending my life with anyone else, so it was time to prove it, by listening for hours about which shade of white our wedding tablecloths should be.
I know more about wedding details than I want, but less than I should.  I’m getting married next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop this commercial or innocent men will dye</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/08/stop-this-commercial-or-innocent-men-will-dye/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/09/08/stop-this-commercial-or-innocent-men-will-dye/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world would truly be a better place if we all joined hands and sang in harmony and shot whoever writes Just For Men’s TV commercials.
I’ve seen this one ad about a hundred times.  It features two girls, maybe six and eight, who give their dad a box of Just For Men in the hopes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t pick me, Pat</title>
		<link>http://scottsays.com/2009/08/31/dont-pick-me-pat/</link>
		<comments>http://scottsays.com/2009/08/31/dont-pick-me-pat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:41:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Green</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The University of Illinois Board of Trustees still has five vacancies for Governor Pat Quinn to fill, and I would totally want the position, if only it paid anything.
See, trustees work on a volunteer basis.  This is not a good way to get talented people to do things.  It’s a position with no pay, regular [...]]]></description>
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