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		<title>Avoidance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An angry man dismissed his muse
as nothing more than an elaborate ruse
and shoved her out the door
but despite this act which left him alone
he found he still couldn&#8217;t write a good poem.
Copyright &#169; 2010 Fortune's Pawn. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling it Like it is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan quotes Saharareporters on his blog over at The Atlantic, and then closes adeptly:
A classic Jihadist profile: 
He is the son of the recently retired Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria, Dr. Umaru Abdul Mutallab.    The Al-Qaida-linked Abdul Farouk Abdulmutallab is an engineering student at University College London.  Saharareporters sources have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/12/26/telling-it-like-it-is</link>
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		<title>Runaway Vampires</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pawn just read this over at the Gray Lady:
Kristen Stewart, the 19-year-old co-star of the &#8220;Twilight&#8221; blockbusters, plays a New Orleans stripper in “Welcome to the Rileys,” which also stars James Gandolfini as a damaged businessman. Mr. Cooper noted that Ms. Stewart also has a noncompetition entry: in “The Runaways,” directed by Floria Sigismondi, Ms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/12/03/runaway-vampires</link>
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		<title>Losing Face{book}</title>
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Pawn recently withdrew from the social networking site Facebook following a year and a half involvement.  Friends, and &#8220;friends&#8221; will doubtless ask why (and indeed, some already have).  The answer is both simple and complex.
The simple answer is that I don&#8217;t like what the use of the site did to how I interact with people.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/11/24/losing-facebook</link>
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		<title>Mixed Messages</title>
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Lunch at the Chinese buffet around the corner, seated next to two men from India and one from Australia.  They are all co-workers, just getting to know each other.  One of the Indian men has a much thinker accent and the other one seems to be trying to help him with cultural acclimation.
One thing they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/11/03/mixed-messages</link>
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		<title>Drop Outs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some political races are getting more interesting for who&#8217;s not running than for who is.  In several races these past few days, prominent politicians have ended theior candidacies:

In the New York 23rd Congressional race, to fill the seat vacated by Republican John McHugh, Dede Scozzafava, the Republican establishment candidate yesterday dropped out of the race [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/11/01/drop-outs</link>
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		<title>Me and D &#8211; A Work In Progress</title>
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The maps of our childhood are the maps we most easily forget, or so it seems to me, looking back.
When I was a kid I ran through the gulleys and ravines of Lake Park as though it were my own back yard, which it very nearly was.  My best friend D and I knew [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/10/31/me-and-d-a-work-in-progress</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Bronson&#8221; &#8211; Five Stars with an Asterisk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just posted this review on the New York Times website in response to A. O. Scott&#8217;s review

I saw this film at the recently concluded Milwaukee Film Festival, and found it one of the best movies of the festival.  It is quite violent, but as A. O. Scott notes, that violence is most operatic in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/10/08/bronson-five-stars-with-an-asterisk</link>
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		<title>Unfortunate CNN Headline Juxtaposition #254</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 &#8216;Horrorcore&#8217; singer suspected in 4 killings
&#8220;&#8230;The crime scene was so horrifying police would not even describe it, saying only that the victims died of blunt force trauma. After the killings, tow truck driver Elton Napier came across McCroskey: &#8220;That was the stinkiest rascal I&#8217;ve ever smelled.&#8221;
ROAD WARRIORS
What&#8217;s cooking?
How much effort &#8212; and money &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/10/06/unfortunate-cnn-headline-juxtaposition-254</link>
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		<title>An Evening of Jazz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This evening Pawn found himself wandering over to The Jazz Estate on Milwaukee&#8217;s East Side for a little respite of delightful music.  The bookings read &#8220;Jeanne Woodall w/ The Jim Poalo Trio&#8221;  I have never heard them, but what the hell.
On the walk over the nice man sitting outside Beans &#38; Barley says, &#8220;Hey white [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fortunespawn.com/2009/09/18/an-evening-of-jazz</link>
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