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			<title><![CDATA[Squirt seltzer in my face: I'm maligning Bozo]]></title>
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			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Not only am I about to speak ill of the dead, the dead in this case is Bozo the Clown. I expect a lightning strike shortly.


Larry Harmon, who owned the rights to the Bozo character and rarely corrected anyone who said he invented it, died today at 83 of congestive heart failure in Los Angeles.]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 9:00 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Discount furniture. As close as we are, it's the least I could do.]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I'm feeling very close to you right now. It's almost as though we grew up on the same block, or you work three cubicles down. Or maybe we're actually cousins.


Art Van just sent me a stack of discount cards intended "exclusively for the benefit of friends and family of Art Van employees." And I]]></description>
			<pubDate>Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 4:48 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[McPhail and McHistory]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[If this were 30 years ago, we'd describe Sharon McPhail as "high-strung." Since we don't have to be quite so careful as we used to, let's go with temperamental and a wee bit wacky.

McPhail, the former Detroit City Council member who once accused Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of attempting to electrify]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 4:57 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The guy who actually did use a Koran]]></title>
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			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[Continuing the thought from the previous post -- quick, go catch up -- there is a Democratic congressman who took his oath of office with his hand on the Koran instead of a Bible. Being as Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota is a Muslim, it was a logical choice.

Barack Obama being a Christian, he]]></description>
			<pubDate>Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:31 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Today's e-mail alert: John McCain likes Tom Cruise movies!]]></title>
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			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[I want to assume that the three people who sent me attacks against Barack Obama last week were well-meaning. Gullible, clearly, and sloppy, but at least well-meaning.

The three e-mails were variations on the same themes -- Obama is a Muslim, he doesn't like white people, he took his oath of]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 8:10 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[A further compendium of stricken terminology]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Since I could barely touch on the 100 banned words this morning, I herewith present a few more from the list recently created by England's Local Government Association.

Herewith, by the way, is not on the list, and that's as it should be. I like "herewith," and everyone can keep their hands off]]></description>
			<pubDate>Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 7:27 AM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[TW and TW -- Tinted Windows, and Tiger Woods]]></title>
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			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[A few posts down, you'll find a reminder that fully tinted windows are illegal in Michigan. In the most recent Sports Illustrated, you'll find a tale about Tiger Woods that illustrates how they come in handy sometimes.


Jim McGovern, who writes an occasional column in the magazine's Golf Plus]]></description>
			<pubDate>Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 12:14 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[The potential queen of the duct tape prom]]></title>
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			<author>(Neal Rubin)</author>
			<description><![CDATA[There's a nice mix of practicality and whimsy in someone who would attempt to win a scholarship by crafting prom clothes out of duct tape.

An outfit she made several years ago also provides a nice insight into Haley Cavanaugh, who along with her boyfriend is a finalist in Duck brand duct tape's]]></description>
			<pubDate>Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 11:23 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[John Dingell's loss is our gain]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[I love it when U.S. Rep. John Dingell gets into high dudgeon, because he becomes both eloquent and caustic in ways other politicians can only dream of.

Even in medium dudgeon, the Democrat from Dearborn is smarter and smoother than most anyone he works with. But high dudgeon is a treat.

What]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:57 PM</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Dobson offended by comparison to Sharpton; SpongeBob has no comment]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Family took exception yesterday to being mentioned in the same sentence as the Rev. Al Sharpton in a speech by Sen. Barack Obama.


Obama's point was that religious leaders sometimes have conflicting views. Dobson, with the pious certainty of the self-impressed,]]></description>
			<pubDate>Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:27 AM</pubDate>
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