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		<title>Blowing up boxes on the 4th</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent a good portion of this nation&#8217;s 234th birthday thinking about and then being a bit depressed about our current collective state of being. Maybe more correctly put, our collective state of liberty. I got depressed because it feels to this author that liberty gets trampled over each day, with almost a fervent glee, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No &#8220;Held Captive&#8221; Slide Shows Here</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 05:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a kid, we had a friend of the family who would invite us for dinner on a Friday or Saturday night. At some point in the proceedings, he&#8217;d ask my parents if we had seen his latest &#8220;vacation slides&#8221;? If they made the mistake of answering no, there was the instant appearance of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wither Our American Dream?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the better part of this weekend having flashbacks to various periods of my life. I&#8217;m not sure why this has been happening, other than just being a little melancholy for my youth and having too many things trigger my memory in a short period of time. But on this Sunday morning, I&#8217;ve come [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s always about the blades, not the razors.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1901, King Camp Gillette changed shaving and marketing forever, when he began selling a safety razor with disposable blades. The shaving innovation is obvious, the double edged razor was far superior to the straight razors wielded by barbers and serial killers of the era. But the marketing genius was in Gillette&#8217;s thinking that by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Have You Gone, Dennis Miller?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:07:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kirk</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my true guilty pleasures is the &#8220;Raw Dog&#8221; comedy channel on SiriusXM radio. It&#8217;s guilty because paying for radio in my car just seems like such an extravagance these days, and pleasure because the uncensored rants of great stand up comedians makes me laugh out loud. Often I really need the laugh. So [...]]]></description>
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