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		<title>Tick&#8230;Tick&#8230;Tick&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Relax and enjoy the inevitable...as Heinlein once said...
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		<title>Hate Is The Puppeteer&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan has all the reason he needs now, to like Obama...

The Grim Truth
02 Jul 2008 03:04 pm
Andy Borowitz nails it:

The liberal blogosphere was aflame today with new accusations that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill) is trying to win the 2008 presidential election.


On the other hand Andrew, it may all just be an act to trick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tales From George Bush&#8217;s America&#8230;(continued)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The State Of The Union...

 China Inspired Interrogations at Guant&#225;namo
WASHINGTON &#8212; The military trainers who came to Guant&#225;namo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of &#8220;coercive management techniques&#8221; for possible use on prisoners, including &#8220;sleep deprivation,&#8221; &#8220;prolonged constraint,&#8221; and &#8220;exposure.&#8221;
What the trainers did not say, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faking It Is Even More Painless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those wacky Wall Street hedge fund managers...


DoJ says fugitive financier Samuel Israel arrested
Fugitive hedge-fund manager Samuel Israel surrendered to police in Massachusetts, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday in its online edition, citing the Justice Department. Israel has been on the run since June 9 when his sport-utility vehicle was found abandoned in New York's [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just How Gay Was Your Boyhood Anyway&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Number 248 in a series of comprehensive test questions...

Were you a childhood bookworm?&#160; Would you have rather stayed home with a good book then joined your friends in a rousing game of baseball?&#160; Which of these sad goodbyes brought tears to your eyes as you read...
1) &#34;Shane...Come Back!&#34;
2) &#34;Mary Poppins...Come Back!&#34;

Actually...I cried pretty bitterly when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Worst Cars To End It All In&#8230;  #10, The 1989 Nissan Maxima&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to self: When committing suicide by car, it's okay to take your seatbelt off.


Teen drives off top of Pikes Peak
A 17-year-old plunged his car off the summit of Pikes Peak this afternoon, in authorities said appeared to be a suicide attempt.
The teen's 1985 Nissan Maxima plunged more than 1,000 feet down the ravine strewn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1389</link>
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		<title>When Your Own Cheapshit Prejudices Start Laughing At You&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So as it turns out, One News Now, the so-called Christian News Service which is actually an American Family Association front group, gets newsfeeds from various real news wire services for its &#34;service&#34; which it then feeds back out to its subscribers in a Family Friendly sorta way.&#160; As it turns out, that means filtering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Are Bruce&#8217;s Photographs Like Hitler&#8217;s Watercolors&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Answer: They have no people in them.
So...it's come to my attention that certain folks seem to think my photography is notable for absence of people.&#160; That's not exactly true, or I probably wouldn't be invited to take pictures so often of things like weddings and prom dates.&#160; Oh...and drag performer award ceremonies.&#160; But I'll admit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1388</link>
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		<title>Roommates: Several Circles Closer To Satan Then Living Alone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Note to self...&#160; Don't go advertising for a roommate just because you're so damn lonely...


DUDE, MY CONTROLLER
A man in his late teens told police that he knew his roommate in Crown Hill smoked marijuana when they moved in together about a month ago.
But there was too much pot smoking too often.
Until last week, when one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1387</link>
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		<title>Tick&#8230;Tick&#8230;Tick&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Friday Happy Hour...another drive back home.&#160; This was supposed to keep me sane and it isn't anymore.&#160; Now I'm not just feeling sad and lonely...I'm feeling trapped.&#160; I need a way out.

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		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1386</link>
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		<title>Oh, Shut Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Heller.&#160; Yes.&#160; I know this bothers some of my friends but I completely agree with yesterday's supreme court decision regarding D.C.'s gun ban.&#160; But this kind of rhetoric, from McCain's campaign, really bothers me...

Today&#8217;s decision is a landmark victory for Second Amendment freedom in the United States...

Blah...blah...blah...&#160; Here's the part I mean...&#160;

Unlike Senator Obama, who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1385</link>
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		<title>To Everything Turn, Turn, Turn&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peterson Toscano, links to an interesting page on the stages of coming out.&#160; I'm not sure I agree with the implicit premise that everyone goes through the process the same way, but it got me thinking about my own journey, which I've been trying in fits and starts to tell in my cartoon series, A [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1384</link>
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		<title>&#8220;The fruits of love grow all around&#8230;&#8221;</title>
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Hoping and praying for someone to care
Always moving and goin to where
What becomes of the broken hearted...
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		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1383</link>
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		<title>Destroying Marriage In Order To Save It&#8230;(continued)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shorter Michael Medved:&#160; Heterosexuals don't need marriage, therefore homosexuals can't have it.
No...seriously...that's his argument  in response to Jonathan Rauch's column in the Wall Street Journal  the other day...

It&#8217;s not &#8220;marriage&#8221; &#8211; some magical status granted by the government &#8211; that serves to make people &#8220;healthier, happier and wealthier.&#8221; It&#8217;s the behavior associated with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brucegarrett.com/brucelog/1382</link>
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		<title>Awe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spectacular double rainbow in the sky here in Baltimore yesterday!&#160; I'd just come home from work and glanced outside to see a sudden shower coming down on my street.&#160; So I stepped out onto my front porch to watch, and noticed the sun was out and brightly shining to my west.&#160; Down towards the end [...]]]></description>
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