Ok, I still don't know why the hell it's doing this, but I'm going to solve it by running my feed through feedburner and then parsing it's RSS feed. Because it's on a remote domain, it works in my tests. Not ideal, but w/e.
I had a very similar problem - you might try using 127.0.0.1 instead of your own domain name (assuming your apache setup doesn't prevent you doing that). Something to do with domain resolution I believe, quirk of the api.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.