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	<title>Merrill Markoe.com</title>
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		<title>Spam: Now fancier than ever.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the olden days of the internet , when your aol or earthlink mailbox would fill up with  spam for penis extenders and discount viagara? I&#8217;m getting a little misty eyed just thinking about  that bygone time, back at the beginning of the new century, before sophisticated spam filters came on the scene and disappeared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Westminster always looks to me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every year I watch the Westminster dog show and I think about making this. This year I did it. Here it is.

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		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/hey-a-new-class-this-year-at-westminster</link>
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		<title>The Greatest Love the World Has Ever Known: An analysis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, its Valentines Day, almost. I&#8217;ve actually had a few nice ones in a row since I am happily co-habitating with someone I genuinely like. But as usual for me this time of year,  I start thinking about the lack of reasonable romantic role models in the world at large.  My family didn&#8217;t provide one. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/the-greatest-love-the-world-has-ever-known-an-analysis</link>
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		<title>New worst word ever: This time from the 1950&#8217;s.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if show business in general and television in particular wasn&#8217;t hard enough on women. there is an  obituary today in the NY Times about  the first woman  ever to direct a TV show. She looks like a lovely woman. She had a nice long life. But wasn&#8217;t it punishment enough for Frances that it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/new-worst-word-ever-this-time-from-the-1950s</link>
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		<title>RE: The Super Bowl: How I tried to win a million dollars last year</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I know it is The Superbowl on Sunday but I don&#8217;t watch any sports. There. I said it.  None. Nothing. And I am fortunate enough to now live with a man who shares my lack of interest. (In fact, just last night he said to me &#8220;Who is playing this year? The Monkeys versus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/re-the-super-bowl-how-i-tried-to-win-a-million-dollars-last-year</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Something Extremely Important&#8221;: my new video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just turned a draft of my newest book in to a new editor. That means it is a very tense time for me. Therefore I have been doing what I always do when I am tense: edit my little films.  This is a video I have been working  a while. I was trying to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better intended games to entertain prisoners</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully this ruling will encourage prisoners to play more Monopoly, which will help  foster an inmate&#8217;s obsession with remaining in the real life correctional environment,  buying it,  and eventually turning it in to apartments and  hotels.
Dungeons and Dragons Prison Ban Upheld

Robert Caplin for The New York Times Published: January 26, 2010

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		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/better-intended-games-to-entertain-prisoners</link>
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		<title>Cleaning out my office: A potpourri of stuff I saved</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Because I am a writer, I am always at work. What I mean is that I regard everything that comes toward me as potential subject matter.  And although I am not a hoarder, my fascination for the show &#8220;Hoarders&#8221; on A&#38;E probably comes from my own tendency to save stuff in case I ever need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This new supreme court corporate donations ruling: here&#8217;s the sane solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that this new Supreme Court ruling has opened the door officially to unlimited campaign control on the part of giant corporations,  it seems like it will no longer make  sense  to pretend that the &#8220;people&#8221; holding our nation&#8217;s highest political offices are actually not just figure heads for consortiums of international corporations. It&#8217;s easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://merrillmarkoe.com/this-new-supreme-court-ruling-heres-the-sane-solution</link>
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		<title>He had every last attribute. He Was Perfect.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Damn. Just my luck to find out about this after enrollment is closed.
But since I can&#8217;t join, I still wish I could have been there when he explained what he meant by &#8220;nonsense&#8217; to seventeen Jewish women.




Goel Razon, a 60-year-old Israeli, was brought to court in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is accused of sexual enslavement, [...]]]></description>
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