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		<title>Could BP oil spill end life on earth?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foreword: It&#8217;s deceptively tempting to dismiss the following article as &#8220;just another crackpot theory&#8221;, but if there&#8217;s any possibility whatsoever that this information could be accurate, then ignore it at your own peril. The Problem Ominous reports are leaking past the BP Gulf salvage operation news blackout that the disaster unfolding in the Gulf of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another Memorial Day is here, and hopefully at some point this weekend while we&#8217;re enjoying our BBQ cookouts and celebrating the unofficial start of summer, we will remember to honor those who have lost their lives in service to our country. We pay our respects to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This is an ex-parrot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the 1978 sketch from &#8220;Saturday Night Live&#8221; with John Belushi as &#8220;The Thing Who Wouldn&#8217;t Leave&#8221;? Outside her camp of hard-core supporters, most other Democrats are screaming in horror like Jane Curtain (some quietly, some not) as Hillary continues to ignore the obvious in her increasingly futile bid for the nomination. There is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=493</link>
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		<title>And now for something completely different</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To balance out my last couple of posts which have inadvertently bordered on the macabre and gruesome, today we present some comic relief in the form of an incredibly cute video of a baby panda sneezing: If that&#8217;s not enough for you, here&#8217;s another &#8220;awwwww&#8221; photo: Or you could just go to Cute Overload and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=492</link>
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		<title>Creepy advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Memorial Day weekend is fast approaching, and for many people that means outdoor cookouts with hot dogs, burgers, Bar-B-Q, and other typical &#8220;American&#8221; food. Coincidentally, today&#8217;s post from blog-buddy Supacoo (whose job has relocated her to Germany for the next two years) features a link to the European discount chain ALDI, and offers an entertaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More people who do stuff better than I do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Which would include roughly 99.97% of the Earth&#8217;s population, but never mind that now. If you are a fan of both photography and music, as I am, you will enjoy visiting stevecarter.com. Steve is an affable English bloke who built a beautiful house on a loch in the Scottish highlands where he lives with his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=490</link>
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		<title>Words on a page</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You should read this blog. No, not this blog &#8230; this blog. Here&#8217;s a few random quotes: I&#8217;ve never been a fan of those &#8220;Love Is&#8221; comics (you know, with the naked children with the big methed-out eyes and scary lack of genitalia), but I&#8217;m pretty sure they never published one that read: &#8220;Love is&#8230; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=489</link>
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		<title>Woot me!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve discovered a new obsession fun diversion: the deal-a-day site known as Woot. Every day at midnight, they put up one item for sale at a ridiculously low price, and when they&#8217;re gone, they&#8217;re gone; it could be minutes, it could be hours. You never know what they&#8217;re going to have for sale in advance, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=488</link>
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		<title>Vatican announces release of iPope 1.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is an Actual News Item: SYDNEY (Reuters) &#8211; Pope Benedict will text message thousands of young Catholics on their mobile phones during World Youth Day in Sydney in July, hoping going digital will help him connect better with a younger audience. Even though I&#8217;m not Catholic, I think it&#8217;s great that the Pontiff is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=487</link>
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		<title>Necisito un alka-seltzer, por favor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re back! Happy Cinco de Mayo from Wind In The Wire. We&#8217;ve timed our glorious return to the Blog Space in honor of this auspicious occasion. Now, I realize that some people may possibly confuse Cinco de Mayo with a similar ethnic holiday also celebrated in the spring, St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, but we are here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=486</link>
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		<title>Worst album cover, ever?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If only the human race could be so lucky. Oh noooooooooo, there&#8217;s more.]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=485</link>
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		<title>For Shelly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was greatly saddened recently to learn of the death of a fellow blogger in Oregon. I first heard from Shelly around the end of 2005, when she found my blog after searching for one of my keywords (&#8220;pulmonary fibrosis&#8221;). She wrote me: I found your blog when I first started this thing last month. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=484</link>
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		<title>Tiger&#8217;s tale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Any feline fanciers reading this blog may be glad to know that our cat Tiger came home Friday afternoon from the vet and seems to be doing OK. We&#8217;ve learned a lot about FLUTD as a result of this experience, and found that it&#8217;s much more common than we realized. Our vet has had three [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=483</link>
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		<title>Week of Suck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Things have not been peaches and cream in Toasterville this week. To start off with, while in Houston last week for my usual round of medical tests for my pulmonary fibrosis, it was discovered that my amylase and lipase numbers were out of whack, so there&#8217;s apparently a chance I could be developing pancreatitis. Oh, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=482</link>
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		<title>Shocking photo!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[WiTW Exclusive! GIANT MONSTER PIGEON ATTACKS GALVESTON HOTEL! A young boy is shown about to fearlessly jump on the back of the gigantic flying beast in this exclusive pic taken by Mr. Toast during a brief mini-vacation last weekend in Galveston, Texas. However, shortly after this photo was snapped the colossal Columba Livia Domestica took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=481</link>
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		<title>The seal deal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Judging by the reaction to Tuesday&#8217;s pig post, today&#8217;s entry should really get y&#8217;all worked up &#8230; and I sincerely hope it does. Friday, March 28 begins the season when hundreds of thousands of Harp Seal pups &#8212; many only 12 to 15 days old &#8212; will be brutally clubbed to death in the Gulf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=480</link>
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		<title>This little piggie went to market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hope everyone had a great Easter weekend! We visited the brother-and-sister-in-law, who live on sixty acres of pasture land out in the country near Austin. As is the case with many Texas farmers, ranchers, and other landowners, wild hogs are a big problem for them. The population of feral pigs has exploded in the Lone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This week in history</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend was my and Mrs. Toast&#8217;s anniversary, and without disclosing exactly how long we&#8217;ve been married, let me just say that our wedding happened sometime during the Reagan administration. Yes, we may be old, but we&#8217;re funky. True story: when Mrs. Toast&#8217;s father realized how much it was going to cost him to marry [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh my God, it&#8217;s full of stars!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was saddened to learn of the passing of one of my childhood inspirations, science-fiction writer extraordinaire Arthur C. Clarke, who died today at the age of 90 at his home in Sri Lanka from breathing problems associated with post-polio syndrome, which he had battled for years. Known for such classic novels as &#8220;Earthlight&#8221;, &#8220;Islands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hooker and the Governor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hi there, friends! I&#8217;m ashamed to say that it&#8217;s been nearly two weeks since I last posted, which means I have entirely missed out on blogging about the Eliot Spitzer affair &#8212; an event custom-made for snarky wise cracks if ever there was one. But better late than never, as they say, so let me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://windinthewire.com/?p=476</link>
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