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		<title>If only we could vote for Tina</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/10/05/if-only-we-could-vote-for-tina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s international connection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>This be a nice Web site</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy trolling through the Internet to find sites that keep me up to date on cultural news and fads. So, when I came across Urban Hustler, I was anxious to give it a whirl.
I quickly realized that, while it may be a visually attractive site, it is in dire need of someone who knows [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=339&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s not an ill wind that does this</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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Considering this cliché sort of stunt does nothing to inform viewers, and serves only to create some extra level of phony drama to weather that stands on its own for importance, I got a chuckle out of this situation. 
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		<title>My opponent is a #*+?%^# &#8212; every day</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/my-opponent-is-a-every-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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From the Associated Press:
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. &#8211; Recalling the nation&#8217;s unity in a time of peril seven years ago, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama placed their partisan contest on hold Thursday and spoke as one in honoring of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Obama and McCain were making ground zero in New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=333&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What would Winston Churchill do?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an actual BBC video of Georgia President Saakashvili conferring with another world leader over Russia&#8217;s armed attacks on the small nation.

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		<title>Add to the list of sickeningly overused words</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/add-to-the-list-of-sickeningly-overused-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Staycation.
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		<title>GQ anoints America’s 20 ‘best’ cocktails</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/gq-anoints-america%e2%80%99s-20-%e2%80%98best%e2%80%99-cocktails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I admire its aspiration to be the lead dog in the pack of magazines telling men how to dress, eat, drink and behave, I have difficulty with GQ because it insists we all should be untucked, unshaven, uncombed and generally unimpressive looking in a world in which women are expected to be sleek, stylish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=319&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giants still football&#8217;s champions (*)</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/giants-still-footballs-champions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(*) Well, at least of the Austrian division of American football in Europe.
My Turek Graz Giants won the Austrian Bowl XXIV, 31-21, which gave them the &#8220;Austrian State Championship&#8221; at the expense of the Swarco Raiders of the Tyrol.
Behind American quarterback Chris Gunn in an exciting outing that accounted for at least four interceptions as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=313&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please, watch your language</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/please-delete-these-from-our-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year, dictionary mavens come up with a list of new words being added to their reference works. Among the words this year: mondegreen, norovirus and pescatarian.
The problem is, the editors don&#8217;t tend to eliminate words and phrases that have become meaningless due to mis-use, feeble attempts to create new slang based on nothing in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=293&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy birthday, America!</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/happy-birthday-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<title>User-generated crap</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/04/user-generated-crap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there I was, reading the major local daily newspaper when I noticed a line under a particularly fluffy story and poor quality photo: &#8220;Story provided to the XXXXXXX.&#8221;
&#8220;Story provided&#8221; is, heaven help us, news-speak for a particularly insidious development in the shaky  world of newspapering. That is, cutting staff to save money, then [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=287&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another collection of 2-faced heads</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/another-collection-of-2-faced-heads/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another collection, created with the help of my friends, of unintentionally double-meaning or just plain &#8220;Huh?&#8221; headlines:
• Highway chief resigns after death in tunnel
(New York Times)
• FDA eyes better regulation of body parts industry
(Associated Press)
A quartet of headlines from Australian publications:
• Eye drops off shelf
• Enraged cow injures farmer with axe
• Miners refuse to work after death
• Cold wave [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=286&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What do you get for the man who has everything?</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/07/02/newsflash-nelson-mandela-no-longer-a-terrorist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:03:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[News Item: Former South African President Nelson Mandela has been taken off the U.S. terror watch list. President George W. Bush signed a bill removing him and other members of the African National Congress from the list that has kept them from entering the U.S., except to visit the United Nations complex, without special dispensation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=284&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s our National Anthem, you douche bags</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/its-our-national-anthem-you-douche-bags/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s bad enough that unimaginative advertising agencies keep dredging up dead celebrities and old pop songs to help peddle their clients&#8217; goods. But when &#8220;The Star-Spangled Banner&#8221; becomes the theme music to sell us an overhyped soft drink, that&#8217;s going too far. Really, it is.
If by some magic, or lack of paying your cable bill, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=283&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>News item: Authorities condone, enable bestiality</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/well-ok-as-long-as-the-authorities-helped/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Troy (NY) Record, June 26 edition:
TROY &#8212; A Florida fugitive wanted for attempted murder was apprehended on Sheridan Avenue Wednesday after nearly a year on the lamb thanks to a joint effort between local authorities and the Albany office of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force, police said.
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		<title>Don&#8217;t you just hate show hosts who tell you to &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/some-things-i-cant-stand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:37:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a) &#8220;Put your hands together for &#8230; &#8221; 
(That doesn&#8217;t make any noise after the first hit, by the way)
b) &#8220;Make some noise for &#8230; &#8221; 
(I might cheer or applaud if the performance is worthy, but just sitting there like an ass, making noise? No way)
c) &#8220;C&#8217;mon,&#8221; as in sing their songs 
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		<title>About Amy Winehouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh dear. 
We are being told, yet again, that Brit-trash singer (?) Amy Winehouse (that stunning beauty pictured over there) may be on the final spiral of her life-defying existence of drugs and denial.
Well, pardon me if, frankly, I don&#8217;t give a damn. 
I am tired of being continually assaulted by TV, radio, blogs, fan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=273&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid soda can tricks</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/stupid-soda-can-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A canner exceedingly canny
One evening remarked to his granny,
&#8220;I canner can can
anything that he can,
but a canner can&#8217;t can
a can, can he?&#8221;
(English doggerel)
Cans apparently continue to fascinate some people, and not just for what&#8217;s inside them.
Skeptical? Take a look at this trick, then.
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		<title>The end of (my patience with) &#8216;Battlestar Galactica&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://cartographers.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/the-end-of-my-patience-with-battlestar-galactica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you as confused as I am about what happened last night on &#8216;Battlestar Galactica&#8217;?
It was the mid-season finale, an episode that looked as if some parts had been sloppily cut out, causing some odd transitions, and it included an ending that was as dissatisfying as the finale of &#8220;The Sopranos.&#8221; 
I exchanged befuddled glances [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cartographers.wordpress.com&blog=1803306&post=271&subd=cartographers&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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