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		<title>Dear Readers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Readers,
Well, we’re a little older, a little wiser perhaps, and definitely a little more sarcastic.  This happens when you travel.  We hit Dublin, London, and Paris with a succession of shocking realizations as to just how short our Chinese paychecks would take us<span id="more-2152"></span>, even with youth discounts.  Wow.  Europe is expensive.
After careful reconsideration, we decided to cut Greece and Italy out of our itinerary and instead headed south towards Spain where you can see an entire cross section of the country for far less money than it costs to spend an even mildly fun week in Ireland.  To keep it cheap you do, of course, have to walk.  
We found the Camino de Santiago (an ancient pilgrimage turned popular walk) by chance and ma&#8230;


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		<title>Dear Big Ants Who Were Bossing Around the Little Ants</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ants]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Big Ants Who Were Bossing Around the Little Ants,
First, I must say that you look crazy up close.  Sorry, but I have been a little off lately and have found that brushing aside distractions clears up a path towards almost clarity.<span id="more-2139"></span>  Second, that was my food scrap and I was planning to eat it you lazy, scavenging nettler.  You owe me .001 RMB for that fried egg ort.  Or maybe you want to take one of my classes to pay me back.  You can probably find a good IELTS Reading on ants; then the students might understand you.  That&#8217;d put you ahead of me.  Although, the Chinese students are known to be speciesists.  They might just smash you with a shoe.  That&#8217;s what happened to &#8220;Cockroach Teacher.&#8221;  Fair warning.&#8230;


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		<title>Dear Elephant Man</title>
		<link>http://thisridiculousworld.com/china/dear-elephant-man-07062009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 13:57:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Elephant Man,
Perhaps you do not suffer from some debilitating, disfiguring deadly disease.  Your face does not appear horribly mutated.  No mind.  This title is not meant to damage your self esteem.  No, if it does you are too sensitive and maybe we have you wrong. We refer instead to the hue of your pilot shirt and your strong, careful spray.  Impressive.  You sir, put that iron decorative bank elephant to shame.  
Jealous is an understatement.  It&#8217;s pupils disappeared in covetous amazement.  It&#8217;s jaw dropped.  It&#8217;s trunk leapt from it&#8217;s idle peanut searching dangle to a strained arch.  Not a stream.  Not a drop.  Not even a squeak. 
Yes man.  You outdid man&#8217;s imitation of nature &#8211;&#8230;


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		<title>Dear Doggie in the Window</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 May 2009 13:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editors</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dogs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Doggie in the Window,
You are not the first of your kind to be pictured on this page, nor the first to be the subject of our thoughts.  Indeed, you are not even the first canine to be addressed here in the second person, human to dog, via missive.  However, let none of this suggest to you any lack of sincerity in our words.  You have your special place in it all, and no one will take that from you.
There you are, in your place.  I won&#8217;t feed you falsities and flattery &#8211; I&#8217;m sure you get more than enough of that on the other side of that window, judging, that is, from the regal pose you strike each morning on your sill.  You have the look of a dog who thinks he&#8217;s much bigger and much cuter than he is.  Now, while&#8230;


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		<title>Dear &#8220;White Bear&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://thisridiculousworld.com/america/dear-white-bear-24052009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 05:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear &#8220;White Bear,&#8221;
WHITE BEAR!  Your skin&#8217;s hue of Sprite bottles, severe seasickness, and apple candy is cause for concern.  Your sallow belly is not hidden behind your crooked tie.  Neither is that torso spanning scar.  A vicious fight it must have been.  Your American flag top hat, raised arms with flashing cards and a wand &#8211; I see you think yourself a prestidigitator.  An image of perfect drunken hilarity.
Unless, of course, this is some sort of social experiment, what with the scar, the green fur, the spade card &#8211; what are you trying to say?  Have you sewn up your black and white panda self in some sort of acid crazed tribute to Ken Kesey&#8217;s dream?  And what exactly is this dream of e&#8230;


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