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		<title>Blockage: Visits to the Three Gorges Dam</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A deep, stentorian voice echoed through the dry canyon air.  Laser beams scattered across the wide, flat surface, forming images to match the narrator&#8217;s tale: trampling mustangs of water, swooping eagles, the Statue of Liberty.  It was a story of mythical proportions, the battle of man versus nature, national progress, and Democracy, ending with the great destructive and creative powers of the old river finally being harnessed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation.
The Grand Coulee Dam is the largest of its kind in the United States.  Its concrete girth spreads across the Columbia River as it winds up into Eastern Washington, into canyon country, red rocks and brush.  Woody Guthrie was commissione&#8230;


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		<title>The Long Lost Vestments of American Reason</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 68</b>

In the dark corner of a far away forlorn church stand these three forgotten souls.  Bruised, dirty, chipped and abandoned they doze like wallflowers in the shadows as patrons play hooky for every reason but lack of sin.
In their bright vestments creased with dust the saints and saviors of yesteryear dream of the good&#8217;ol days when esteem was high and church donations flowed like golden glacier runoffs in the eternal spring of global warming.
Now, though.  Now there are ten such derelict churches in a 50 kilometer radius.  Ten churches to share one imported minister of faith.  A foreigner preaching right and wrong to a small audience every tenth Sunday.  Some may say:
&#8220&#8230;


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		<title>Traces of Decline: Guns in Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 09:50:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<i>
(Flexing teenager on his snowmobile speaking to another teenager): &#8220;Hey Bobby, got tickets?.. To the Gun Show!&#8221;
Bobby: &#8220;You Betcha!  See you in the gym.&#8221;</i>

&#8220;Fun for everyone.&#8221; This ad was printed on the front page of the Sunday edition of Alaska&#8217;s largest newspaper, the Anchorage Daily News:



At least they&#8217;re encouraging the kids to read.


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		<title>Life of Pig: a fable</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two pigs beget one.  Such is the way of pigs, as it has been since the beginning.  In the first months, Pig rolls amid the muck, snorts his own excrement, and eats whatever morsels and collected orts are deposited into his sty.  It is a base life, one of pure sensory perception, instinct, and consumption, but Pig is content, for he is fed and fat.  Pig knows no other happiness.
Pig grows.  He grows so much that he matches his begetters in size, and soon the sty is crowded.  For the first time, Pig is aware of his self in relation to other objects.  He sees that the blubbery form that is his own body is restricted by his environment, that there is limited space.  Pig feels confined; he curses the unmoving lines and other space-occupyi&#8230;


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		<title>Prototype for Alaskan Attorney Discovered at the Chinese Museum</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SLIGHTLY MORE PHOTOGENIC AS MAN
Shanghai, CHINA &#8211; A bust of <a href="http://www.frozenlaw.com/sanders.htm" target="_blank" onclick="pageTracker._trackPageview('/outgoing/www.frozenlaw.com/sanders.htm?referer=');">Eric T. Sanders</a>, was recently found in the ancient sculpture wing of the Shanghai Museum. The well-preserved, roughly-carved giant head &#8211; which, incidentally, is often referred to as &#8220;The Judge&#8221; &#8211; was previously thought to be some sort of god, demon or school teacher.  Despite photographic proof, a Chinese museum spokesperson vehemently denied any resemblance between the artifact and the living Westerner, demonstrating the absurdity of this assertion by reminding reporters, &#8220;China didn&#8217;t even invent Westerners until the 14th century.&#8221;  


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