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        <title>Giving In To The Temptation of Mediocrity</title>
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            <title>2009 turns into 2010</title>
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            <description>      I don&#39;t really like going out for New Years. I don&#39;t mind a house party if there is an invite - but in general I have become intolerant of drunks and screaming girls. For some reason New Years Eve is a celebratory event for lightweight drinkers a...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Deck the Halls, my Bitches!</title>
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    It might surprise you, dear readers, to know that I rarely find joy in anything. Disappointment builds character and I am brimming with character. I am so used to hitting snags and being turned down and cold cocked with &quot;NO&quot; that some days I don&#39;t...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Do doctors really know ANYTHING?</title>
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            <description>      I want to believe in doctors, but my past experience makes it very hard to trust anything any of them have to say. Yesterday I found myself in the walk in clinic up the street to get a refill on some meds. While I was in there I mentioned to the ...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Marc Emery&#39;s Prison Potcast - Episode #1 | Cannabis Culture Magazine</title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:39:49 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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     Marc talks about prison food and the hypocrisy of alcoholic politicians...         &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Birthers, Tea Baggers and all you other tin foil hat wearing loons</title>
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            <description>        Birthers, Tea Baggers and all you other loons...I can not believe so many people are willing to make fools of themselves in public and for what? Were you promised a klondike bar or something?  What else are you willing to do in order to please ...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt;    
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            <title>The Last Poem I ever Wrote</title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 13:15:56 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     I used to write poetry - well, what I called poetry - all the time. Then I got into college and took writing courses and realized that I pretty much sucked at poetry. My prose were just slightly better and my scripts were a little above the prose ...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <title>Help Save Canadian Activist and Hero, Marc Emery!</title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:15:05 -0700</pubDate>         
            
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     HERE IS WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP! Write a letter asking the Washington State judge to let Marc Emery return to Canada without any imprisonment. Send your polite, passionate letters to: Honorable Ricardo S. Martinez  U.S. Courthouse  700 Stewart St...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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     If you know me, you know that I am somewhat of a misanthrope. People do things that irritate me, and I have found it is better to seclude myself than run the risk of getting punched in the nose for conveying my irritation in the only way I know h...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:12:15 -0700</pubDate>         
            
            <description>     Tonight I was looking for a tape. A specific cassette tape from a band called Metro Waste. Metro Waste was an early, southern region punk band. I told a friend that I had a Metro Waste demo. I knew it was somewhere in the house and I told him if I...    &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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