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(stolen from George Carlin)
Here is the Secret News:
All people are afraid.
No one knows what they are doing.
Everything is getting worse.
Some people deserve to die.
Your money is worthless.
No one is properly dressed.
At least one of your children will disappoint you.
The system is rigged.
Your house will never be completely clean.
All teachers are incompetent.
There are people who really [...]

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two new local blogs:
chicken inwind & hillfoot adrift
Chummoth’s Hill
be sure to check them out for all your blog and word related needs.
(cross posted at blogasheville)

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I hate Radiohead.  Various people–some with respectable taste– keep telling me how great these guys are.  I don’t get it.
There are probably worse places in the world, but the emergency room of Mission Hospital at 2a.m. on a Sunday morning comes close.  Drunks, sociopaths, and general weirdness mixed with the order of booze and vomit [...]

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So I am unemployed again, just in time for the Holidays (serves my heathen soul right)…I applied for the job I had been doing for 6 months, only to lose out to someone who has never done that particular job before, yet has worked for the state for 15 years. So it is warming [...]

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I had gone out into the yard to watch them fall from the sky. I made no apologies for my curiosity.  Soon my neighbors joined me.  We stood together each in our own green universe watching as they fell out from the night and destroyed our homes. “Looks like trouble,” a man said to his [...]

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            The room you are in has no doors, no windows, and no light. You are in the dark. Below you is a chasm. Can you hear the water lapping at your feet? Disregard the voice as contrary to popular opinion it is not the voice of god, but [...]

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On Tuesday I remember the importance of breathing, of the manner in which air is brought in then expelled. It is important to remember your breathing, not that you are breathing but what your breathing represents. For instance: I was writing a letter, and on the back of the letter I made the [...]

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