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		<title>Playing Pool Near Omaha, Nebraska</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A complete cross-section of the American population can be found in pool rooms. My local hall, Eastside Billiards, had a plaque which stated “Pool and Sex: two things you don’t have to be good at to enjoy.” True. Any of our regulars would agree. They included a divorce judge, an opera singer, a plumber, teachers, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Stereotypical Boss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just got fired. It’s not the economy—after all, this was the third time I was fired from the same job. But it was probably deserved. To begin with, the job was beyond me. Starting off behind the bar at Eastside Billiards I had the honor of being able to call myself “the worst bartender [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Candidate Left Behind</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama was not the only African American running for president in the 2008 elections. But few knew of Cynthia McKinney, Georgia’s first African-American Congresswoman and this year’s Green Party Candidate. In a plurality-takes-all political climate, little knowledge of the third-party candidates is understandable. Many believe that voting for a third party is a waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsters in our Midst</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 00:10:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- This was the title of an essay I had been set for class, which reminded me of the first time I went out for a drink with my soon-to-be girlfriend (and now ex-girlfriend), AK. The boss, JWS, was also along, trying to get lucky. Monsters in our Midst We’ll get underway at a locals’ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To the Staff of the Basin Harbor Club</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 22:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Staff of the Basin Harbor Club, I am writing this from the edge of the long concrete pier next to the harbor office, last night’s shirt rippling in the breeze, the morning sun just about to break a little warmth through the fog over the lake. Over the last day or so I’ve been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dear boss, please don&#8217;t:</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear future bosses, from my experience, this information should help you along. Please, don&#8217;t 1. a) Take coke with one of your staff. b) Also, don’t buy coke off her boyfriend in the toilets. More importantly, if you are going to take steps a and b, do not fire her because she is taking coke [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James of Madison Avenue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[-About the homeless guy who lives on my block Sitting on the steps between a pastry shop and a nail salon, James seems to have little to do with the Upper East Side. It’s his 49th birthday, and although his appearance—grey mixed with the black on his head, weathering of the face, sunken eyes—shows his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is There any Excuse for TV News?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- Written after watching a segment about soldier risk in Iraq &#8220;We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Main and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.&#8221; ––Henry David Thoreau History of our demise: The telegraph gave us context-free information; information about which we knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hallalelujia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Halallelujah One busy corner, a shiny metal cart, and the best Halal food in the city. With an estimated 10,000 of them spewing out the smell of burning chicken and day-old hotdogs, you might be forgiven for thinking New York’s street vendors are all the same. Also, with a plethora of warm and cozy restaurants [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Feudian Froo Froo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:33:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[- I wrote this on the 24th December, 2007, while coming down with a fever. Completely inspired by Frederick Crews&#8217; book The Follies of the Wise, this book seemed to prove to me that all this bullshit I&#8217;d been learning in my literature classes, although it may, in the end, be correct, has no evidence [...]]]></description>
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