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   <description>"There being no public urine use made by petitioner, there is no decision. Furthermore, there being no case, I dismiss all charges. So ordered."</description>   <pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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   <description>"As words began to accumulate on my laptop, the country also plunged into the economic sewers. I was a sewer engineer once, so expect a lot metaphors related to excretions."</description>   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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   <description>"Remember that organized religion is politics, and missionaries are lobbyists for a new socio-economic order that will bring dental floss and tithes to the unwary. Religionists always serve other masters until they are strong enough in numbers to tell the government what to do."</description>   <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
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   <title>The endless rowing toward democracy</title>
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   <description>"There is always a marginal 'democracy deficit' at work in any social contract - a power mime inherent in the process of government which, over time, evolves to separate the will of the people from the best interests of the governing elite."</description>   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:03:04 +0100</pubDate>
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   <description>"This is the problem, you tell some people you're a writer, and they want to be in on the act. They want you to ghost write their life and turn them into a celebrity. Ask them for specifics, and they're less forthcoming."</description>   <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:02:03 +0100</pubDate>
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   <title>Balloon helicopter &#38; We'll cross that off then</title>
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   <title>The trap</title>
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   <title>Sparrows in the ditch</title>
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   <title>Freezing up blue</title>
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   <title>To my one desire</title>
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   <title>January morning </title>
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   <title>Ghosts &#38; <em>from</em> Parchment, scalpel, rock: cities </title>
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   <title>Fisher woman by the sea </title>
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   <title>invention &#38; untitled</title>
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