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		<title>Another Year Gone</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2008/01/01/another-year-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2008 14:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, another year is gone. Happy New Year, y&#8217;all. I rarely bother to get excited about the new year, but 2007 was just plain lousy, so good riddance. I went to bed early last night&#8230; Hours before midnight because I just didn&#8217;t feel up to the whole getting excited thing as I was staying home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gossip Gone Wild</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/12/09/gossip-gone-wild/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Dec 2007 23:39:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Stranger in a Strange Land quotes the other day and came across this one&#8230;. it really hits home even more so now than it did then: &#8220;Remind me to write a popular article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Repeal Day</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/12/04/happy-repeal-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 00:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow (December 5th) is the 74th anniversary of the repeal of the 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Perhaps the single greatest exercise in mass stupidity this country has participated in until the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 under Mr. Nixon. (Thanks Tricky Dick, you fucktard.) It only took us a short 14 years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s good to be the King!</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/11/17/good-to-be-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My apologies to Mel Brooks&#8217; comic masterpiece. But I&#8217;m sure that&#8217;s what every leader in North, Central, and South America has been thinking. Kings have the advantage in such matters&#8230; they don&#8217;t have to worry about upsetting the electorate. To quote the news article&#8230;. &#8220;¿Tu, por qué no te callas?&#8221;, grita el rey Juan Carlos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembrance / Veterans / Armistice Day 2007</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/11/08/veterans-day-07/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This holiday season, please remember not only what we have to be thankful for, but who we should be thanking. Just thought I would take a minute to remind everyone to remember to observe two minutes of silence (one for each of the two great wars) at the 11th hour of the 11th day of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Week</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/11/03/what-a-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I thought I&#8217;d give y&#8217;all a weekend update to let you know what&#8217;s going on. I&#8217;ve successfully kept my room clean for the most part all week&#8230; and I even intend on doing laundry over the weekend so it can&#8217;t get out of hand again. We&#8217;ll see how that goes. It&#8217;s been cool enough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punishment Lights</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/10/16/punishment-lights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may ask, &#8220;OK, what&#8217;s a punishment light?&#8221; But if you do, I know that you don&#8217;t live anywhere near Austin (or from what I hear, L.A.) Punishment Light: (n) &#8211; Traffic light with exceptionally long cycle time (Often 5 mins or more, for no apparent or logical reason) placed there by sadistic Department of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Salt Water &#8211; Fuel of the Future?</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/10/05/salt-water-fuel-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems that a retired broadcast engineer from Pennsylvania, while working on a way to use heavy metals and radio waves to cure cancer by basically microwaving the damaged cells has stumbled upon a new fuel source, a most unlikely one at that. Salt Water. You know, the thing that covers 2/3 of the surface [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Representative, Several Votes</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/10/01/one-representative-several-votes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to say that this video didn&#8217;t surprise me in the least&#8230;. But since the site that the link to it was sent to me on was polluted by pornographic spam, I thought I&#8217;d pass it on here in a much less offensive location. I might also point out that it is a common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The infestation of common sense continues&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/09/25/single-member-districts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A district-based Austin City Council up for debate again In an unexpected, and bold move, a concerned citizen from East Austin has the city council considering a proposal to once again put single-member districts on the ballot for 2008. Unfortunately, due to group stupidity ignorance another misguided citizen is passing around a petition to prevent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could common sense be infecting Austin?</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/09/21/could-common-sense-be-infecting-austin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 21:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capital Metro board backs away from fare increase plan First the French come to their senses&#8230;  Now taxing authorities in Travis County are actually backing down from stupidity?  At the behest of the people?  Can it be true? Surprisingly enough, at least in this case, it seems true.   The Austin-American Statesman&#8217;s Ben Wear reports that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has the world gone completely mad?</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/09/20/has-the-world-gone-completely-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woman, 70, Arrested Over Brown Lawn &#8211; AOL News Okay, this one completely disgusts me.  State officials have investigated this matter and said that the officer acted properly?  Not maintaining your landscaping is a crime now?  I&#8217;m sorry, but the people who are responsible for stupid laws like this should be lined up and summarily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capital Metro Deserves A Fare Increase (NOT!!!!)</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/09/18/capital-metro-deserves-a-fare-increase-not/</link>
		<comments>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/09/18/capital-metro-deserves-a-fare-increase-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#60;RANT&#62; Yesterday morning, the Editorial Board at The Austin-American Statesman posted an entry dated August 23 in favor of the 100-300% (for certain passengers) fare increase proposed by the Capital Metro administrative staff to the Capital Metro board&#8230; And last night at their open meeting, the public gave them a resounding NO. It seems not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hacking The Body&#8217;s Bacteria</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/05/02/hacking-the-body39s-bacteria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 15:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lormar</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hacking Your Body&#8217;s Bacteria for Better Health Brandon Keim 04.26.07 &#124; 2:00 AM .. only display photo on first page &#8211;&#62; .. start article photo &#8211;&#62; Modern humans are bacteria-killing machines. We assassinate microbes with hand soap, mouthwash and bathroom cleaners. It feels clean and right. But some scientists say we&#8217;re overdoing it. All this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>howdy all</title>
		<link>http://lormar.labnet.com/2007/04/30/howdy-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[okay, so i&#8217;ve been neglecting my blog lately. that&#8217;s fine, i&#8217;ve been neglecting my life lately and opted to spend about a month in bed&#8230;. I think it had something to do with my roommate hounding me for money every time i&#8217;d leave my bedroom. Anyway&#8230; On the bright side, I did get around to [...]]]></description>
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