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		<title>The party of &#8216;No&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/03/15/the-party-of-no/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my dealings and daily interactions I’ve consistently had to reconcile my political leanings with the age group I apparently belong to.
It’s not particularly fun to be a 22-year-old college student and a Republican. I’m constantly the “unenlightened one” whose politics are drenched with the blood-red saturation of a Kansas upbringing and little if no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big B gets caught in an Irish brawl</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/03/12/big-b-gets-caught-in-an-irish-brawl/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


OPINION: Drinkin&#8217; In The Beer Garden with Bruce Behymer


“God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.” &#8212; Ed McMahon
“O’Malley, you RAT BASTARD!” I screamed.
The day started out innocently enough.  I received a call from O’Malley encouraging me to join him at the fake Irish pub down the way.  He hated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology helping Kansas farmers</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/02/17/technology-helping-kansas-farmers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Advancements in technology are quickly evolving in an attempt to simplify and improve life, and a major part of life is agriculture. New technology is being utilized to improve and make agriculture more efficient. Mid Kansas Coop offers a wide range of technology to help farmers get the most out of their land. 
Field Marketer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Low on cash, low on health? Take a run.</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/02/15/low-on-cash-low-on-health-take-a-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[College life is a major conglomeration of so many horrible things. Stress, bad eating habits, little exercise, poor health practices and little cash top the list of things going against us.
When I first started college, I realized I needed to begin exercising to get in shape, stay healthy and relieve stress.
I began running. It ended [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine&#8217;s Day trivia is fun, filling</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/02/12/valentines-day-trivia-is-fun-filling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


OPINION: Drinkin&#8217; In The Beer Garden with Bruce Behymer


“Without love, what are we worth?  Eighty-nine cents!  Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely.”  &#8211;Hawkeye Pierce, from M*A*S*H
In a few days we will be celebrating the loveliest day of the year – Saint Valentine’s Day.  In honor of this grand day let me step away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kansas Sampler Foundation hopes to unite rural towns</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/01/18/kansas-sampler-foundation-hopes-to-unite-rural-towns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Traveling Highway 50 across Kansas is a slide show in rural life, passing through one small town after another. This is the heartland of America, but to the passer-through catching only the abandoned gas stations and lonely down towns, it would seem to be slowly dying.
Over the last few decades varying economic changes have caused [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2010 shaping up to be a year of the elephant</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/01/18/2010-shaping-up-to-be-a-year-of-the-elephant/</link>
		<comments>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/01/18/2010-shaping-up-to-be-a-year-of-the-elephant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No one can really grasp how much I have looked forward to 2010. Sure, 2009 was nice. It was filled with a young president’s first year of blunders, scattered successes and downward sloping approval ratings in congruence with a similar story about Congress, but it was devoid of the political meat and potatoes- the election.
It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loud, smoky bars are writer’s paradise</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/01/18/loud-smoky-bars-are-writer%e2%80%99s-paradise/</link>
		<comments>http://asterisksmag.com/2010/01/18/loud-smoky-bars-are-writer%e2%80%99s-paradise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 03:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[


OPINION: Drinkin&#8217; In The Beer Garden with Bruce Behymer


“Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.”  ~Jean Kerr
The Bushmen of the Kalahari hunt bats for a living, and I write.  It’s what I do.  It has to be done.  I need a drink.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Santa . . .</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2009/12/21/dear-santa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kansans tell Santa Claus what they want for this Christmas

Dear Santa,
I am sad to say that at 23, I no longer have materialistic things to ask for. Instead, I ask for simple, useful, everyday things.
My list is numbered in order of importance, but I will take whatever you can give. As my sister says, “It’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mid Kansas Coop aids ag charter school in teaching students farming</title>
		<link>http://asterisksmag.com/2009/12/21/mid-kansas-coop-aids-ag-charter-school-in-teaching-students-farming/</link>
		<comments>http://asterisksmag.com/2009/12/21/mid-kansas-coop-aids-ag-charter-school-in-teaching-students-farming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just past the parking lot stands a windmill that looks down over a garden and a green house. The two Pigmy goats, named Bella and Sam, and the Boer goat Petey reside next to the chicken coop out back. It has many indicators of a farm, but it’s not, it’s a grade school — the [...]]]></description>
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