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		<title>Bizzare Search Terms: 2011 Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 17:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fairthorne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So now that I&#8217;m back in the fold I&#8217;ve been watching some of the things that random people search for that bring them to State of Affairs.  A while back, my former partner-in-crime Alex James wrote about this very same topic.  I&#8217;ve been looking through the archives and there&#8217;s some even stranger stuff, 2 years [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=3125&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Genocide and Jesus</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2011/06/27/genocide-and-jesus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:53:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fairthorne</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://state-of-affairs.com/?p=3111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Folks, I&#8217;m not going to lie when I say a lot of things piss me off about the world.  Everywhere you look things are getting worse.  I&#8217;m not trying to be pessimistic, it&#8217;s just the way things are.  War, famine, insane natural disasters, the butchering of the ending of Lost.  It&#8217;s hard not to wonder [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=3111&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alex Who?</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2011/06/07/alex-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fairthorne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello friends, As I sit in a newly built compound, sipping burbon and enjoying the sun, I took a gander to how my beloved blog has been doing.  Turns out my intern hasn&#8217;t been doing his job for the last six months.  On top of that, the bugger stole my 1968 Les Paul and one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=3105&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Book To Help You Reevaluate Your Crappy Job</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2011/01/20/a-book-to-help-you-reevaluate-your-crappy-job/</link>
		<comments>http://state-of-affairs.com/2011/01/20/a-book-to-help-you-reevaluate-your-crappy-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:27:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not everybody is lucky enough to have a job they enjoy as much as I enjoy mine.  Yes, in addition to my responsibilities as Prince of the Internet, I extend my considerable talents into multiple fields: I also operate as a freelance writer and editor-for-hire, a sometime roadie and a moonlighting musician.  It’s not so [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=3078&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Affairs Versus The People&#8217;s Choice Awards, Part III</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/23/state-of-affairs-versus-the-peoples-choice-awards-part-iii/</link>
		<comments>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/23/state-of-affairs-versus-the-peoples-choice-awards-part-iii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forty-four categories is far too much for something as fundamentally lame as the People’s Choice Awards, Lu and I have decided, but we’re married to this idea now, so we’re obligated to finish it.  So here it is: the final installment of State of Affairs Versus The People’s Choice Awards.  Today: MUSIC AND EVERYTHING ELSE [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=3037&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Affairs Versus The People&#8217;s Choice Awards, Part II</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/22/state-of-affairs-versus-the-peoples-choice-awards-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 17:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good morning friends, and welcome back to Monday here at State of Affairs.  Today, Lu Galasso (of Inching Towards Mediocrity) and yours truly are continuing our castigation/mockery/sometimes serious take on this year’s People’s Choice Awards.  Friday we tackled the hilariously-underperforming Movie category, in which I was called out for electing Robert Downey Jr. as king [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=3012&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>State of Affairs Versus the People&#8217;s Choice Awards, Part I</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/19/state-of-affairs-versus-the-peoples-choice-awards-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/19/state-of-affairs-versus-the-peoples-choice-awards-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back dear readers.  Yes, it’s actually me – the prodigal son of State of Affairs has returned, albeit briefly, to titillate your hate-bone once again. My good friend Lu Galasso of Inching Towards Mediocrity, who has generously donated his time in the past while doing guest posts for SoA, informed me this morning that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=2993&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Commercial Break. (An SoA Guest Post)</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/17/commercial-break-an-soa-guest-post/</link>
		<comments>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/17/commercial-break-an-soa-guest-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dear readers, you may have noticed a trend here at State of Affairs lately: namely, guest blogs.  The fact is I&#8217;ve had less and less time to devote to the blog over the last few months for a variety of reasons (only a few of which I&#8217;m able to talk about), but despite my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=2976&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dork Attends Stewart and Colbert&#8217;s Historic Rally (SOA Guest Post)</title>
		<link>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/12/dork-attends-stewart-and-colberts-historic-rally-soa-guest-post/</link>
		<comments>http://state-of-affairs.com/2010/11/12/dork-attends-stewart-and-colberts-historic-rally-soa-guest-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello friends.  As usual my duties as Prince of the Internet are eating up absolutely all of my time, but this is why I maintain a cadre of Correspondents to do my dirty work for me and keep you entertained.  Today State of Affairs brings you the story of one geek on a trek to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=2971&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Hero Fund: Supporting Veterans</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello friends.  It’s been far too long since we had one of our little chats, and for that I’m deeply sorry.  State of Affairs isn’t defunct, but we’re in a period of serious change, and as a result my myriad responsibilities as Prince of the Internet have taken me elsewhere and will continue to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=state-of-affairs.com&amp;blog=5895776&amp;post=2966&amp;subd=jimfairthorne&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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