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		<title>One Life Fits Nobody Perfectly</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/08/20/one-life-fits-nobody-perfectly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 14:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear God, was I ever so callous, so unfeeling, so ignorant? Yes, I was.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1179&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holy Copulation of Quantum Physics</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/holy-copulation-of-quantum-physics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I won't go into my rant about the evils of today's science, how it has been co-opted and turned into just another fundamentalist religion.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1176&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Un-Bush &amp; Uber-Bush</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/un-bush-uber-bush/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Five years later I started going to a therapy group for abused women. Yeah, marriage number two wasn't so great either. It turns out that DIFFERENT is NOT the same thing as BETTER. Write that down if you've never heard it before. We'll be using that idea later.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1158&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dogs, Monks, Dreams &amp; Good Stuff Update</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/05/22/dogs-monks-dreams-good-stuff-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective unconscious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dog Poet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grateful Lost]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Dream Center]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Monks]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[nce every single one of us is a part of the universal collective unconscious, who knows what prophetic goodness may come to us in our dreams.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1131&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Going All Klingon</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/going-all-klingon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 21:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cardiac bypass surgery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heart attack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lung function testing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[statins]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The truth is that each of us has a very personal standard of what we consider to be a life worth living. We're all willing to pay different "prices" to stay alive.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1122&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time Monks &amp; Dog Poet</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/05/11/time-monks-dog-poet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ALTA reports]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you keep up with the ALTA reports from the Time Monks at HalfPastHuman, and who doesn't, you'll be glad to hear that we now have word on the identity of the Dog Poet.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1102&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Indigenous Cinco de Mayo</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/05/05/indigenous-cinco-de-mayo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cinco de Mayo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[indigenous Americanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I watched the movie The Perez Family for the umpteenth time yesterday. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1096&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Stephen Hawking Do?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/what-would-stephen-hawking-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arianna Huffington]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let me point out that Hawking is not a Shallow Twit, therefore his advice on galactic social networking relationships may be safely considered at least as valuable as that of Sergy Brin or Arianna Huffington.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1057&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Heart Attack</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/the-third-heart-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ambulance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baby aspirin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bypass surgery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strong, young, careful arms jolt me mercilessly into
the hollow womb of the rumbling beast.
The priestess sits, places my hand on her thigh.

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		<title>Puppy Rapers Don&#8217;t Send Flowers</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/puppy-rapers-dont-send-flowers/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/02/16/puppy-rapers-dont-send-flowers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Huh? Politicians have used jobs to get votes? Why, the foul, scum-sucking, evil-to-the-core, bunny slaughtering, puppy rapists!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1028&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Don&#8217;t Need No Stinkin&#8217; iPhone Customers</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-iphone-customers/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/02/05/we-dont-need-no-stinkin-iphone-customers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the 1970s Southwest Bell (now ATT) came out with a new whiz-bang motto intended to endear itself to their customers:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Just One Epiphany After Another</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/its-just-one-epiphany-after-another/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[corporate farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend the movie, particularly if you've been wondering if America's food supply, from American producers, is sustainable. I imagine you already know that American's food supply from foreign producers isn't sustainable.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1014&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kermit-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/kermit-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[high school]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infantile teachers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that a bunch of teenage boys (acting like teenage boys) kidnapped a teacher's Kermit and then used red marker pen to color it wounded. They might even have put handcuffs on it. Quelle horreur!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=1002&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cherchez La Moola</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/26/cherchez-la-moola/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 07:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mom told me a few years back that she feared hunger. I felt like I'd been kicked some place soft - with a lot of nerve endings.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=985&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>TEOLAWKI-The Great Birthing</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/teolawki-the-great-birthing/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/11/teolawki-the-great-birthing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[apocalypse]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rebirth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=980</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What's wrong with TEOLAWKI? Well, the biggest thing is that it looks like everyone's entire lifetime of learning is going to be shot to hell and pretty worthless. Who wants to face that? It would be just like being born all over again: You wouldn't know diddley about anything, and you'd have to start from scratch learning a new way to be. Dang! What a waste of a lifetime that would be!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=980&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emergency Shallow Twits Award</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/emergency-shallow-twits-award-2/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/emergency-shallow-twits-award-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[airport security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incompetent]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was originally planning to publish a thoughtful, reasoned screed about bulldozing American cities. But, wouldn't you know it, those wacky kids who work for TSA are up to their usual shenanigans. Bless their little hearts. I just had to stop everything and take official note of American airport security in action.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=969&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Me And Tipper Gore</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/me-and-tipper-gore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 11:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frozen pipes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[global warming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tipper Gore]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=956</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All I had to do was go pee, wash my hands, air up the bed, get back under the covers, adjust the eight pillows I pack around my body, then fade back to dreamland. I don't think so! After all that activity I'm usually good for at least another four hours of wakefulness. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=956&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re All Losers</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/were-all-losers/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/were-all-losers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Dec 2009 23:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[losers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winners]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=940</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone alive has experienced painful, wrenching losses. Even a newborn baby, who we like to think of as having a blank slate, has just lost the safest, happiest home he's ever going to know in his life. He faces forever in a hostile environment. His only advantage in this world is widely spaced eyes, which appeal to all humans. Maybe he'll be lucky and attract one to provide the positive attention necessary to his survival. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=940&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stick It, Rupert</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/stick-it-rupert/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/29/stick-it-rupert/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 11:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspapers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rupert Murdoch]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, no it doesn't. Information doesn't want anything. In fact, it isn't even sentient. Information IS free. It costs nothing. It just sits around waiting for someone to discover it, you know, like gravel waits. It waits in exactly the same way it waited to be discovered in the bad old days of newspaper reporters.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=933&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silent Night-White Christmas</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/silent-night-white-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/silent-night-white-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 09:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comfort]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Silent Night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[warmth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=912</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's 2:54AM this Christmas of 2009. The ground is covered with snow. I haven't seen a Christmas where it snowed on Christmas Eve so that it was a real white Christmas since I was a child.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=912&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Superfied Food &amp; Taxes</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/superfied-food-taxes/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/20/superfied-food-taxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[disease]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fake meat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[famine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gaia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I keep thinking about lab created meat. It reminds me of soylent green, not the movie, the food in the movie. If you haven't seen the movie Soylent Green, I won't spoil it for you. If you have seen the movie, does the thought of "lab created" meat creep you out too?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=909&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re #37-Yay!</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/were-37-yay/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/were-37-yay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Bandstand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[American healthcare]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[f you're nowhere near old enough to remember American Bandstand, America being higher than #37 in healthcare, affordable housing, one job per family<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=900&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yak Feces</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/yak-feces/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/yak-feces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:40:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friendship]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not bragging, but I don't live the kind of life in which yak feces are likely to pop up in conversation. So how was I supposed to answer the question? And where the bloody hell had the questioner gotten the idea that yak feces was a subject that:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=872&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Suri in Pink-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/suri-in-pink-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/12/07/suri-in-pink-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bermuda Triangle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dracula]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jesus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khmer Rouge]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pink]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PinkStinks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suri Cruise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UFO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=859</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the pink armbands worn by those who assassinated the Romanov family, to the  Khmer Rouge (khmer is a Cambodian word meaning "white mixed with" and rouge is a French word meaning "red") slaughter of millions by Pol Pot (pol is a vietnamese word meaning "pretty in" and pot is a Chinese word meaning "pink"), the twentieth century was awash in the treachery and terrorism of the color pink.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=859&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congenital Vegetarianism &amp; Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/congenital-vegetarianism-thanksgiving/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/congenital-vegetarianism-thanksgiving/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hunger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thanksgiving]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=850</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The truth is that I'm a congenital vegetarian. I didn't know that until I had my first child, but I knew, from the first time somebody tried to put dead animal puree on my lips, that I didn't want dead animals in my mouth. 

It was never a moral issue for me. Two year olds aren't keen on moral issues.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=850&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jellyfish Sinks Boat-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/jellyfish-sinks-boat-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/jellyfish-sinks-boat-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[aliens]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[conspiracies]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=833</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Either way, I feel like we're in an episode of South Park, and that's pretty f***** up right there, dude.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=833&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>8 Severed Feet-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/8-severed-feet-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/8-severed-feet-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apocalypse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forces of nature]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was of the opinion that the third severed foot was a sign of a serial killer playing nauseating games. I also thought the third severed foot report might have been a sign of mainstream media playing "Let's scare the sheep" by reporting severed feet washing ashore as something unique, when the opposite is true. I mean, if thousands of severed feet, the majority of them wearing shoes, wash ashore annually then the third - bland and condescending - news story makes sense.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=818&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hot Organic Farmers-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/hot-organic-farmers-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/hot-organic-farmers-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 04:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[cuties]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, yeah. Hot organic farmers, oh wait, we better capitalize that. Hot Organic Farmers. That's better. Hot Organic Farmers are probably a sign of the Apocalypse, if for no other reason than the list of hotties included Michelle Obama.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=806&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2 Ton Hummus-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/2-ton-hummus-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/2-ton-hummus-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mountain Dew]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Red Bull]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suppose it could be argued that two tons of hummus is a very mild sign of the apocalypse. But this tasty treat was all kitted out to give one the impression of the Lebanese flag. It took 250 chefs to whip up this culinary, and artistic, treat.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=800&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Purse-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/your-purse-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/your-purse-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 05:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[developing brains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faux leather]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it depends on what it's made out of. If you're one of those evil-overlord-Illuminati types who get your purses, shoes, wallets and furniture from the hide of poor little moo-cows, you'll probably skip stylishly into the Apocalypse with your brainiac kiddies, dancing, singing, and quoting from the periodic table, behind you.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=784&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flight</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/flight/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/flight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I got up about 3:30 AM, drank a Glucerna, shuffled off to the bathroom, came back to the bed, considered the possibility of sleeping some more, wondered how long I'd have to wake up at 3:30 AM before I accepted that that's my new "let's join the world" time, then was jolted by one of those questions that makes you wonder how you didn't ask it sooner: Why doesn't Obama have an accent?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=767&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spam Candy-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/spam-candy-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/spam-candy-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:12:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experimentation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[signs of the apocalypse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spam Candy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, I know what you're thinking so let me stop you before you get all lathered up and start screaming, "WTF! This is a bogus blog entry! Of course Spam Candy is a sign of the apocalypse! What, are you freakin' kiddin' me?!?!?!"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=759&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Reporter&#8217;s Dream</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/the-reporters-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/the-reporters-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:29:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[investigate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mystery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theft]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[His situation became a national news story and he was cleared of the charges. He became a mini-celebrity and made the rounds of talk shows. Although he'd been cleared, and the public saw him as some sort of hero because of his former victimization, there was something that didn't ring quite true about him and his story.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=733&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Che&#8217;s Granddaughter-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/ches-granddaughter-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/ches-granddaughter-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Che Guevara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lydia Guevara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PETA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegetarianism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don't get me wrong, I liked Che. Not his politics, his hotness. Although, being young, I had no clue what his politics were. But, back in the sixties, being a revolutionary was cool. Besides, he had all that facial hair and a beret. What wasn't to like?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=714&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Somebody Wuz Robbed</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/somebody-wuz-robbed/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/somebody-wuz-robbed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sour grapes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No wonder the Iranian people are wearing the puce &#38; cerise polka-dotted headbands, wristbands, etc. of Ahmadinejad supporters, and gathering by the kazillions to protest the election thievery by Mr Mousavi! Rightly so! We must stand with our Iranian brothers and sisters in their fight for truth, justice and the Amer..., uhh, Iranian way. Viva la revolucion!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=707&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Turtle Crossings-Sign of the Apocalypse?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/turtle-crossings-sign-of-the-apocalypse/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/20/turtle-crossings-sign-of-the-apocalypse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recovery Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Senator Tom Coburn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After all, the money could be spent on installing skylights in the state-run Montana liquor warehouse. Oh, wait. It is being spent on that.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=698&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writers&#8217; Ethics</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/writers-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/writers-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[honesty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rewriting history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing ethics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After I published an article based on a hoax yesterday, I ran across this poll on the ethics of editing a previously published article to reflect new information, without acknowledging the changes made.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=683&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s A Foreigner?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/obamas-a-foreigner/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/obamas-a-foreigner/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[citizenship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential qualifications]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=676</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate to say, &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; but I did say that the birth certificate was a red herring because Obama had other problems. In an article by Jim Kirwan on Rense this morning here, the group &#8220;Americans for Freedom of Information&#8221; has Obama&#8217;s college transcript which shows he received a Fulbright scholarship as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=676&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Ripple</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/you-ripple/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/05/16/you-ripple/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 10:08:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ch of us affects the world and all the other people in it as profoundly as a world leader.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=665&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shallow Sex Twits Ride Again</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/shallow-sex-twits-ride-again/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/05/14/shallow-sex-twits-ride-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 08:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcohol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drunkeness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homosexuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pimps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prostitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[research studies]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, it's a bar, you're gonna get likkered up and pick up strange. What does nationality and sexual orientation have to do with it?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=654&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Shallow Sex Twits Award</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/todays-shallow-sex-twits-award/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/05/12/todays-shallow-sex-twits-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 09:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sex]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vapid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, my assumptions about how the world works have been kicked in the head. Today's Shallow Sex Twits Award winner has done the kicking. I was wrong. The compulsive bedpost notchers were right.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=648&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yucky Yogurt &amp; Weary Warriors</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/yucky-yogurt-weary-warriors/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/yucky-yogurt-weary-warriors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brainwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[useless eaters]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know that we women tend to be too busy taking care of others to take care of ourselves. But men do that too, and they don't have millenia of women's magazines telling them to stop it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=635&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Torture Memo Soap Opera</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/torture-memo-soap-opera/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/torture-memo-soap-opera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[blackmail]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuremberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[soap opera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[torture memos]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[
While reading another of the zillions of articles on the torture memos I was struck by a thought that hadn't occurred to me before:
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		<title>Deep Twits Are So CUTE!</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/deep-twits-are-so-cute/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/deep-twits-are-so-cute/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:26:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[3D]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[April Fool's Day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CADIE]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[map]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[web browsing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Happy April Fool's Day!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=627&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some Widows Wear Red</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/some-widows-wear-red/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/some-widows-wear-red/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[50th anniversary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[old age]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The interesting part is that three months after her grandfather died, her grandmother died too. It reminded me of the tee shirt that says, "Caution! Old people may be closer than they seem."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=621&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hannah Montana Tax</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/the-hannah-montana-tax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hannah Montana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Shirley Temple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=605</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's so obvious I don't know why Obama hasn't thought of it - except - maybe he hasn't been watching PBS news shows. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=605&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caged Animal Tamer</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/caged-animal-tamer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:56:52 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[surgery]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, he bought a newspaper, took the blanket out of the clothes dryer, went to the grocery store, washed some dishes, chopped veggies for soup and took a bath. I was looking forward to waving him on his way to work this morning. You know, like baby's first day at school. I was exhausted from having him home for two weeks, but I was pleased at how strong and resilient he'd been. He'd come through like a trooper. Honestly? He'd made me proud. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=578&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deadly Spider Bites US &#8211; Updated</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/deadly-spider-bites-us/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/deadly-spider-bites-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chemical fertilizer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HR 875]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Monsanto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[organic food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pesticides]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=560</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just last night I said to my husband, "How does spraying chemicals on food protect us? Food has every opportunity to pick up bugs during transport to the store. As for fertilizer protecting food, please, food has every opportunity to pick up bugs on the way to the store. Those goobers insult the intelligence of all of us with such arguments."

And, lo and behold, here is the scary story that proves just how wrong I was!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=560&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Money Talks &amp; Human Rights Walk</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/money-talks-human-rights-walk/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/money-talks-human-rights-walk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertisers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brainwashing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[propaganda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=546</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it is a roadmap. Clean it, fix it, spiff it up, sell it, go to heaven. And every mile marker on that roadmap reads, "Greed is next to godliness."<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=546&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Surgically Reconstructed Navel</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/a-surgically-reconstructed-navel/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/a-surgically-reconstructed-navel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Bageant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[navel gazing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[spiritual attainment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading some Joe Bageant yesterday. We all have our secret pleasures which we rarely broadcast, but share with a few close friends. Joe became one of mine as soon as I read Revenge of the Mutt People. So, I was reading Joe&#8217;s Skinny Dipping in Reality and ran across a question I haven&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=534&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Comments &amp; Hemingway</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/blog-comments-hemingway/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:14:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blog comments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=518</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What are you accepting as the currency of exchange for your writing?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=518&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Shallow Twits Award Goes To: Me!</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/todays-shallow-twits-award-goes-to-me/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/todays-shallow-twits-award-goes-to-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2009 16:03:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MacBook mod]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shallow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=505</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you thought Ms V doesn't get shallow twits awards, you need to get your thinker greased and lubed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=505&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr &amp; Ms V Do Walmart</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/mr-ms-v-do-walmart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:27:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[survivalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walmart]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[All had flowed as smoothly as such excursions into our local ChinaAnnexSuperStore ever do. Well, unless you count the part where my husband balked strenuously at entering a Walmart of the SuperStore ilk. At which point I looked at him like the spineless, wormy, thingamagig he'd become and growled, "And you think *I* want to go to Walmart?"<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=492&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Octo-Mom &amp; Taxes</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/octo-mom-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[octo-mom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taxes]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=489</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My dark, convoluted mind is getting ready to spew out one of its dark speculations. Leave now if you like your humor Shirley Temple style.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=489&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Octo-Mom &amp; The Matrix</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/octo-mom-the-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[government control]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have unending "news" reports about a mother of six who knowingly chose to bear eight babies at one time. And you think that's something about which you have the god-given, constitutionally-guaranteed right to whine, bitch and moan?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=479&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Are Here: X</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/you-are-here-x/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gardens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=471</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I'm talking to you. It's your life being stepped on, twisted, manipulated and shoved into unending cycles of oppression, war, struggle for survival, then a few years of prosperity, before the merry-go-round starts up again. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=471&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Good Idea Award</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/todays-good-idea-award/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/24/todays-good-idea-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[humor blogs]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=452</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From speaking in tongues, to quoting from The Big Lebowski, to offering six easy ways you can help end the world, this is stuff so good I actually made more than one comment.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=452&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About the Senseless Victim Award</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/about-the-senseless-victim-award/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/about-the-senseless-victim-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yep, yet another cretin has published a mouth-frothing screed, declaring fatwah against all living creatures who do not follow slavishly behind her/his blog comments, ravenously licking up every ill-considered, poorly constructed, self-involved speck of vainglorious drivel that drips from her/his keyboard.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=447&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Shallow Twits Award</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/todays-shallow-twits-award/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/todays-shallow-twits-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Esquire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[men's style]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shallow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vapid]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you need something to soothe your achy brain, while shrinking it down to a manageable size for your brainpan, you're gonna love this. 

<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=429&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bank of America&#8217;s Disappearing Workers</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/bank-of-americas-disappearing-workers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 10:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=415</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[But, and here's where it gets interesting, when I was in the same Bank of America branch several months ago, the faces were uniformly white, the accents were uniformly redneck, and nothing else whatsoever appeared to have changed.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=415&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dump Men &#8211; Breed Safely</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/01/25/dump-men-breed-safely/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an interesting (and thoroughly disheartening) article last night about child murder. The good news is that, if you're a white girl, under the are of five, living in a household without any males, you're the child most likely to reach adulthood. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=405&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Descent Into Daddyhood</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/obamas-descent-into-daddyhood-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Positioning oneself as the patriarch of a nation is done by those who intend to rule, not by those who intend to lead. Leading is done by example. Ruling is done by issuing orders. And, for a fact, it isn't the mandate of any US president to issue orders, your predecessor notwithstanding.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=389&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Gentle Man</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/a-gentle-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've often wondered if the reason Frank was so despised by the men, and not hit on by the women, was because he was the outward expression of all the good things that women in particular admire, and young men rarely possess, all rolled into a package with the long hair, beard, pipe and intellectual debate. If he hadn't been so old, about 30, he'd have been a college girl magnet. He intimidated both sexes equally.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=370&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Israeli Shame</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/more-israeli-shame/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the Yahoo news article linked below, Gaza is about six miles wide by twenty five miles long. There is little room for burying the dead, even during times when Israel isn&#8217;t trying to &#8220;defend&#8221; itself from Hamas. Grieving Gazans are now having to open the graves of relatives to lay the newly dead [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=367&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Gazan Hen House</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/the-gazan-hen-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has locked Gaza into a cage, and has denied the occupants of that cage the right to pursue those things which keep humans alive. They have, with that cage, made Gazans literal sitting ducks for the Israeli killing machine.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=356&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Caylee&#8217;s Body Was Moved</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/caylees-body-was-moved/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:59:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meter reader reported, on August 11, 2008 (two days after Caylee's third birthday) that he'd found a suspicious package of taped plastic bags. According to law enforcement records a deputy sheriff went to the area, but didn't see anything. Okay. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=345&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rabbit Warrens &amp; The Matrix</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/12/09/rabbit-warrens-the-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was watching one of those, "buy a house," TV shows last night. I do marvel at the American Propaganda Machine's ability to brainwash us into "serial consumption" through ever increasing personal debt. When did a non "updated" kitchen become the most heinous crime possible to commit in the world of shelter procurement? 

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		<title>Pray For Mumbai</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/11/27/pray-for-mumbai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But to target Americans and Brits by attacking a hospital for women and children in Mumbai is counter-productive, even to the low aims of terrorists, since it's extremely unlikely there will be many, if any, British and American tourists in such a hospital. Such an action says plainly that the aim of the current terrorists in Mumbai is not motivated by a desire to bring peace to the Middle East. Their motivation is simply to terrorize the the weakest citizens of India. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=331&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Foreclosure: Little Guy Wins</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/foreclosure-little-guy-wins/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ran across this interesting article on home foreclosure today: Is it Possible All Mortgage Contracts Are Void and Foreclosures are Invalid? Here&#8217;s the URL for you to copy and paste in your browser: http:ezinearticles.com/?Is-it-Possible-All-Mortgage-Contracts-Are-Void-and Foreclosures-are-Invalid?&#38;id=1069976 I&#8217;m not facing home foreclosure, although I did in the past, but a lot of people are facing foreclosure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=313&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Internet Fairy Tales</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/internet-fairy-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But, come on guys, this wasn't real life. This was an online game! And yet...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=298&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monotheistic Dogs</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/monotheistic-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a human being equipped with a uterus and ovaries, I'm inclined to be skeptical about an alleged Original Source who is such a sadistic freak that HE (it's always a HE, isn't it) sets up over half of HIS best and brightest creation, humanity, to be the butt of all HIS worst jokes, and the designated scapegoats. Doesn't sound like someone to whom I'd want to entrust my immortal soul. Of course, your mileage may vary.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=283&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cash &#8216;n&#8217; Carry</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/cash-n-carry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:49:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I literally felt like I'd fallen down Alice's rabbit hole. I was in a world of slave labor owned by Americans using Chinese fronts...or maybe I was in a world of Chinese-American partnerships...or maybe I just needed to examine a bit more closely the boring stuff I'd read about China propping up America financially. 

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		<title>Bloody Porridge</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/bloody-porridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My sincere hope is that I'm about to indulge in a bunch of vitriolic rumor-mongering. I don't want this to be real.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=265&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Messier Porridge</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/messier-porridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:59:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In <a href="http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/a-mess-of-porridge/">A Mess of Porridge,</a> I wrote about Addie Polk, a 90 year old widow, who shot herself when her home was foreclosed on by Countrywide Home Mortgage. In that article I mentioned Countrywide had been taken over by Bank of America, and questioned BoA's motives. 

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		<title>Not Just For Evil Overlords Anymore!</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/not-just-for-evil-overlords-anymore/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:43:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're uneasy, or openly distressed, or unpatriotically bitter, about the recent "bailout" of our evil overlords, you'll probably appreciate the opportunity to get in on some Hot Bailout Action yourself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=245&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Mess of Porridge</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/a-mess-of-porridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 07:34:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can speculate that she may have needed the loan for medical bills and funeral expenses for her husband, but I don't actually know that. What I do know is that she must have been pretty desperate for money to sign her house over for it. Because there's no doubt that she didn't think she'd pay on that loan for 30 years and get it paid off when she was 116 years old.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=237&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yo, Apple! Where&#8217;s My Bouquet?</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/09/28/yo-apple-wheres-my-bouquet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 05:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was on terminal hold for the next 45 minutes. Not even any of that nifty Apple muzak. Just air. Maybe if I hadn't laughed?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=231&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Come Back, Little PowerBook</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/come-back-little-powerbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 04:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple repair]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apple Tech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AppleCare]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Genius Bar]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was so thrilled to have the little darling (the PB, not my husband) back home that I didn't quibble...although, with only 98 day left on my AppleCare, I was having some pretty dark thoughts.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=224&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mouth Froth, Propaganda and Ovaries</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/mouth-froth-propaganda-ovaries/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/mouth-froth-propaganda-ovaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cold War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feminism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mickey Mouse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Which means that I don't have to start frothing at the mouth in anticipation of some US Federal Department of Propaganda spokesperson suggesting that we need to "Shock and Awe" Iran in order to stop the imminent destruction of Mickey Mouse. 

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		<title>Coincidence Theorists &#8216;R&#8217; Us</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/coincidence-theorists-r-us/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/28/coincidence-theorists-r-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:29:36 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coincidence theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conspiracy theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's A Wonderful Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law of averages]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished watching the movie, "Meet John Doe." I don't know how many times I've seen it in my life. I didn't get it when I was a small child. Then I got it as I grew up: evil rich men use poor people to get richer. Over time, with repetition, it came to seem trite to me, sort of like the movie, "It's A Wonderful Life." 

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		<title>Hey, Somebody&#8217;s the Baby Daddy</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/hey-somebodys-the-baby-daddy/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/24/hey-somebodys-the-baby-daddy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 12:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthony family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm guessing that the deal is this: there's an unknown, but greatly feared, federal law that says during a presidential election year the US media (including the internet) must not let any story supercede their coverage of US politics; politics must become the entire entertainment industry of the U. S. of A. It must be true. You just read it on the internet, didn't you? I typed the theory on my computer, you're reading the theory on your computer--if that doesn't absolutely, irrefutably, prove the theory is 100% true, I don't know what the flip would.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=196&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>God Isn&#8217;t A Political Platform</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/god-isnt-a-political-platform/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/god-isnt-a-political-platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a Christian who was heavily propagandized, (like millions of Christians worldwide) beginning nearly 30 years ago, with the message of, "Christians must seize the reins of government power and change America," I, and others like me, have watched with great dismay the damage done to The United States by this insidious, politically motivated and unscriptural message.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=183&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barack Trails Dogs</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/barack-trails-dogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack's brother]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inequity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Obama is mentioned only briefly in his presidential candidate brother's autobiography, but, despite it's brevity, it's a tender, moving example of brother love:

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		<title>Apathy and Filesharing</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/apathy-and-filesharing/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/20/apathy-and-filesharing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[apathy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[copyright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporate greed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eminent domain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[filesharing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intellectual property]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lobbying]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=137</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So if you're sitting there thinking, "I don't illegally download anything, I'm perfectly safe," you need to do your own research and find out what copyright law, eminent domain, and marketing really are. 

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		<title>Granny Porn Without Tongs</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/granny-porn-without-tongs/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/granny-porn-without-tongs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[granny porn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humor blogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If I see one more compendium of a desperate person's attempts to drive up their blog stats by being cool, ironic, irreverent, hip and meme-ish, I will, I swear on the grave of George Carlin, start smacking, and follow that up by puking where I smack.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=117&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All Parents Dream</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/all-parents-dream/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/14/all-parents-dream/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 06:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Caylee Anthony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death of a child]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[prayer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I smile now at the parents going through that joyous and overworked time. I wish they understood how much they do for the world. I wish they knew how important they are. I wish that the world would recognize the importance of parents and treat them with the respect they deserve, giving them rewards for making the world better for every one of us.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=110&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revitalization</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/revitalization/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/09/revitalization/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gentrification]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Section 8]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the displacement of African Americans in the 20th century, and in the displacement of Native Americans in the 19th century, the US Federal Government played a major role. In both situations the land formerly occupied by the displaced people was put to the use of white Americans for "gentrification" and financial profit.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=93&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Thought We Were</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/we-thought-we-were/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[The Trip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100th monkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Abracadabra]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gen y]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlev.wordpress.com/?p=68</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know how far back in history goes the concept of some unnamed, but powerful, cabal, stepping on the needs and desires of the common man. But, I suspect it extends back to some forgotten pre iPod time when an ape-like human ancestor said…grunted…signed, “Well, the ones who walk upright stole all the bananas again last night.”<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=68&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is You Is Or Is You Ain&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/is-you-is-or-is-you-aint/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/is-you-is-or-is-you-aint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[abusive]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With about ten years of online experience under my belt, my understanding of what is required to depict psycopathic behavior, as a work of fiction, has undergone a gradual and subtle change.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=51&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Branded and Rented Lives</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/branded-and-rented-lives/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/30/branded-and-rented-lives/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I'm going to insert a personal opinion. I think that the whole "War on P2P File Sharing" is more about marketing music and movies, than it is about lost profits for music and movie companies.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=41&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Email To My Brother, Mostly About Illegal Immigrants</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/email-to-my-brother-mostly-about-illegal-immigrants/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/email-to-my-brother-mostly-about-illegal-immigrants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As long as natural-born Americans believe that immigrants are their economic enemies, both the immigrant workers and the natural-born workers are at the mercy of greedy employers.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=30&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Absinthe Dreams and Spooks</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/absinthe-dreams-and-spooks/</link>
		<comments>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/22/absinthe-dreams-and-spooks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1960s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[absinthe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With any luck, I'd instantly become an absinthe addict and spend my life roiling in the bowels of drug-induced poetry writing frenzies, alternating with really interesting life events.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=21&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abracadabara</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/18/abracadabara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[100th monkey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[...those of you who have noticed some stuff and would like to be helpful to your fellow humans by passing along what you've noticed, you people with thoughts that you try to write down, you know what I'm talking about. You sensitive souls who would prefer not to watch millions of humans get turned into fertilizer by the Atilla the Huns, Pol Pots, Idi Amins, and Hitlers of today's world, you know what I'm talking about.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=13&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama the Cereal Killer</title>
		<link>http://middlev.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/obama-the-cereal-killer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>vonnia</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mind control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let's start with something simple because that's how our brains work, simply. Serial and cereal. Someone says out loud, "He's a serial killer." Your brain hears that a man is killing cereal. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlev.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4157309&amp;post=12&amp;subd=middlev&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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