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		<title>If I could own only one Rush album, this would be it.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 22:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forget everything you&#8217;ve ever heard by these guys, this is my favorite album of them all (by Rush). They&#8217;re all good, but I believe this record captured them at their best. Nothing over played here. Just simple yet intricate songs, played by three men as comfortable with their instruments as they are competent; full of emotion most people only casually acquainted with the group wouldn&#8217;t associate with them. I can&#8217;t decide if the first tune, &#8220;Animate&#8221; is a love song &#8230; <a href="http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=10481">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Taxed enough already? I’m thinking the IRS got it right this time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 22:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t posted here in ages. Don&#8217;t really have anything new or enlightening to say these days, and honestly, it wouldn&#8217;t do any good if I did. We&#8217;re screwed folks, as is our nation and our climate. If my children live out their natural lifespans they&#8217;ll be lucky, or incredibly inventive. There, I said it. Didn&#8217;t want to, but I had to. We&#8217;ve been duped into sowing the seeds of our own destruction by a political process that was co-opted several generations ago. Our &#8230; <a href="http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=10478">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>North Carolina needs a fair income tax structure, not zero income taxes.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend James recently decided to step up and offer himself for sacrifice at the alter of the NC electoral politics, as a candidate for governor, and I believe he&#8217;s serious. I&#8217;ve known James, through his work at BlueNC and other writing, for several years now and I believe we could do far worse than to elect this citizen to our state&#8217;s highest office. In fact, I believe we are doing far worse right now, with Art Pope and Duke &#8230; <a href="http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=10467">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We are life in human form, the offspring of a thousand stars, siblings to a galaxy.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 15:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
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		<title>Exxon doesn’t want you to see this.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 20:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exxon is pressuring several Arkansas television stations not to run this ad. You can read the full story here. If Exxon doesn&#8217;t want us to see it, you can bet I&#8217;ll do whatever I can to make sure you have that opportunity.]]></description>
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		<title>Mojo Nixon w/ Jello Biafra | Hamlet Chicken Plant Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
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		<title>The war on drugs is a crime against humanity.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 20:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cannabis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf writes in The Atlantic: I want to state, as forcefully as possible, that the War on Drugs is deeply, irredeemably immoral; that it corrodes the minds and souls of those who prosecute it, and creates incentives for bad behavior that those living under its contours have always and will always find too powerful to resist. Drug warriors may disagree, but they should not pretend that they are the only ones making moral claims, and that their opponents are &#8230; <a href="http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=10450">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Charges against medical marijuana grower in Florida dropped.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 17:59:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in February of this year the Manatee County Sheriff&#8217;s department confiscated twenty-three cannabis plants found growing at the home of Robert and Cathy Jordan of Parrish  Florida. Mr. Jordan was charged with cultivating marijuana, a Schedule I controlled substance according to federal authorities. Mr. Jordan, 64, has maintained from the beginning that he was growing the herb to treat his wife Cathy&#8217;s Lou Gehrig&#8217;s disease. On Tuesday, April 2, 2013, the Jordans learned that all charges have been dropped, an almost &#8230; <a href="http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=10442">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>We’re number 33, and we’re okay with that.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Too Much newsletter, this week&#8217;s Petulant Plutocrat feature: The five top execs at cable giant Comcast are each making, at last count, over $15 million. What they’re not making: much progress narrowing the broadband speed gap between the United States and other nations. No problem for Comcast public policy VP Rebecca Arbogast. Her job: justifying dismal U.S. broadband performance. Her strategy: total denial. Public angst over the “alleged failing” of U.S. broadband, she’s charging, rests on “disinformation.” Contrasts with nations like &#8230; <a href="http://thurmanhubbard.com/?p=10438">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Black man is President of the United States while there are more Black people locked up in our prisons than there were slaves in the U.S. in 1850.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:15:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Commentary]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[US International Socialist Organisation member Brian Jones, speaking at the opening night of Marxism 2013. This snippet from his speech deals with the hypocrisy and current contradictions in US capitalism including the fights by teachers for justice in education. Take a listen, it&#8217;s only a little over five minutes long.]]></description>
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