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	<title>The Sporadic Curmudgeon</title>
	<link>http://www.atomicdeathray.com</link>
	<description>Wherein I Frequently Complain</description>
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		<title>RIP OED?  OMG!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This one&#8217;s gonna ramble, so get ready.
Back in ye olden days, when the World Wide Web was a twinkle in Tim Berners-Lee&#8217;s eye and pteranodons ruled the skies, I got into computers in a big way.  I didn&#8217;t just dive into the digital revolution, I cannonballed into it.  I played Flight Simulator when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grumble Pie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am the father of a preteen girl who has been on vacation all summer, and I telecommute from home.  Therefore I have been bombarded with a nonstop television diet of the Disney Channel.  Thank God school starts tomorrow and I get to reclaim what torn, wretched scraps of my sanity as remain.
While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Fourth of July Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prologue
(Cool!  Finally, I get a legitimate excuse to write a prologue!)
Looking back across the gulf of three decades, even the most vivid memories get wobbly, like a stretch of distant highway on a hot summer day.  We&#8217;re usually unaware of it because the other people involved long ago went their own way, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And No Condom Either, I Bet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it before; I&#8217;ll say it again: what is it with Florida?
Friday morning a man and woman were involved in a motorcycle crash in Jacksonville.  Naked.  Both are expected to recover everything but their dignity.
Normally, this is where I begin heaping scorn on the miscreants, but actually I&#8217;m filled with dumbstruck admiration. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rest In Peace, Sarah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Love never dies, but loved ones do.  I&#8217;m sorry you were in such pain.  Goodbye.
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		<link>http://www.atomicdeathray.com/?p=669</link>
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		<title>Earth Day, Memories and Discoveries</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last night I was thinking about the first Earth Day.  Well, specifically I was remembering an hour of it, and only vaguely.  I don&#8217;t have any solid memories of what I did, but I know precisely where I was: in Mrs. R&#8217;s art class at Alamo Heights Junior High School in San Antonio, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Old Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not accustomed to recommending commercial services, and this may be the first time I&#8217;ve done so on this site.  That said, the Newspaper Archive is an online service I&#8217;ve been waiting for since I first logged onto a BBS in 1986.
I&#8217;m an amateur historian, and have spent a ridiculous amount of time in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atomicdeathray.com/?p=667</link>
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		<title>Them&#8217;s Some Ballsy Cowpokes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over a year ago I was doing some research on the Disney masterpiece &#8220;Pinnochio,&#8221; and stumbled across a recording of Jiminy Cricket singing a filthy song.  The discovery delighted me no end.
Tonight I was looking for a recording of &#8220;Ghost Riders in the Sky&#8221; for a project I&#8217;m planning, when I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What The Hell Is This F#!&#038;ing Rice Doing In My Burrito?!?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If anyone needs any more evidence that the entire world is headed straight down the crapper, order a burrito.  
About ten years ago some evil puppy-killing hellspawn realized that it&#8217;s less expensive to fill a burrito with rice instead of filling it with actual burrito ingredients, and then everybody else started doing it.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.atomicdeathray.com/?p=663</link>
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		<title>Dildon&#8217;t</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First of all, Happy Thanksgiving!  This is the day when we celebrate the anniversary of the first time ordinary Americans got screwed over under cover of a PR stunt.  Yes, I have Native American ancestry.  You know where to shove the candied yams, Pilgrims.
And now, on to a story about a Maryland [...]]]></description>
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