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		<title>I Gotta Take a Piss</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 04:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Cindy Rosmus emailed me today about a disgruntled writer who was bent out of shape by a recent rejection of a story she had sent Cindy for her ezine, Yellow Mama. The writer upset Cindy with a snarky reply to the rejection:
Hi, Cindy        Unfortunately, after reading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Twain Doesn&#8217;t Live Here Anymore</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In America &#8211; as elsewhere &#8211; free speech is confined to the dead. — Mark Twain

So they are planning to remove the the “N” word from Huckleberry Finn. Samuel Clemens is rolling in his grave, I’m sure.
On one hand, this is not that big of a deal because the novel is in the public domain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jane Austen Would Probably Laugh About This</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:55:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to let you guys in on . . . well, I&#8217;m not sure that it&#8217;s a secret, but a tidbit that some would not believe about me: I read Jane Austen. Yes, it&#8217;s true. I adore Jane Austen. So it is with a measure of both fascination and silent horror that I read [...]]]></description>
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		<title>. . . and He Claims to be an Expert on Cyber Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 14:50:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I would like to escape to a spa for a massage, facial and a slimming body wrap, duty calls. Things to write, submissions to read and other nonsense to deal with.
Nonsense, like this blog post I read this morning — &#34;Is it Plagiarism ? or Is it Irresponsible Publishing?&#34;. The author, Naavi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grist for the Content Mill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 00:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Erianne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a blog post that appeared back in March, freelancer Carol Tice offered her own view about content mills and why &#34;serious&#34; freelance writers should avoid them. I stumbled upon the post the other day while reading a related topic and thought I might play devil&#8217;s advocate here. First, Ms. Tice&#8217;s reasons for avoiding content [...]]]></description>
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