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	<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:57:08 MDT</pubDate>
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    <description>Humor Columns from noted humorist Eric D. Snider</description>
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       <title>Supermania!</title>
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		   <![CDATA[This week the motion-picture emporiums will unspool a new Superman film, "Man of Steel," that will reboot the franchise for the first time in well over a year. Henry Cavill is the latest actor to play the colorfully dressed bachelor, following in the rubber bootsteps of Christopher Reeve, George Reeves, Brandon Routh Reeviest, and Reeves Reeverton. Lois Lane is Amy Adams, and the villain is high expectations. ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Truth Decay</title>
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		   <![CDATA[American communities have been fluoridating their water for 60 years, and 70% of the country's population currently lives in places where the water is fluoridated. But Portland, Oregon, where I live, is not one of those places. In fact, Portland is the largest U.S. city without fluoridated water! We're about to vote on whether to start doing it -- and the issue is not as clear-cut as you might think. Many Portlanders are against it. ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Thu, 02 May 2013 12:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Correction News Network</title>
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		   <![CDATA[Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Before we get to tonight's top stories, CNN would like to clarify -- and in some cases correct -- statements we made on the air yesterday. 

As you know, most of the day's coverage was devoted to the bold daylight robbery of a bank in downtown Peoria, Illinois, which led to a high-speed chase and, eventually, the capture of the suspected robbers. CNN stands by the bulk of its coverage, but we regret that in our urgency to bring you the news, we conveyed some details that later proved to be erroneous. ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 12:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Spring Breaking Point</title>
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		   <![CDATA[It was 10:30 on a Thursday night, and I was at a movie theater for the first local screening of "Spring Breakers," which is about four trashy college girls who go to Florida and get in trouble with guns, drugs, and sex. (Note: it's impossible to go to Florida and not have trouble with at least one of those things.) The movie had opened in New York a week earlier and was already infamous for featuring former Disney stars Selena Gomez and Vanessa Hudgens as two of the girls, all boobs a-flashin' and suchlike. It's a sign that they've grown out of their "Wizards of Waverly Place" and "High School Musical" personas and want to be grown-ups now, like when Shia LaBeouf left "Even Stevens" in 2003 to become a meth cook and was never seen again. ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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       <title>What I Think About What You Think</title>
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		   <![CDATA[As the old saying goes, opinions are like anuses: everybody has one, and everybody thinks theirs doesn't stink, and some are dangerously unpredictable and will not hold up under scrutiny and have a tendency to make others uncomfortable. Who among us has not at one time or another been offended by the tenor of someone's loud, squawking opinion? ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 12:00:00 MDT</pubDate>
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       <title>Empty Pockets</title>
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		   <![CDATA[I was trudging through the security line at the airport one recent morning when a TSA representative started her patter. The TSA patter is familiar to all who have been on a plane in the last several years (a demographic which somehow never includes whoever is directly in front of me in the line). A TSA person who is not actively engaged in the screening/molestation process stands near the line and recites the TSA catechism to those trundling through it. "Remember to take the plastic bag containing your liquids out of your baggage." "Remember to take off your shoes, jackets, and belts." "Remember to suck in your gut when we take the naked pictures of you." And so forth.]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 12:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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       <title>Get Out of the Way, Idaho</title>
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		   <![CDATA[I've been a licensed driver for 22 years, and in that time have received my share of speeding tickets. Just about everyone has at some point. People who have never gotten a speeding ticket are like people who have never gotten a cavity, in the sense that shut up, nobody wants to hear it. But after a flurry of infractions in my teens and 20s, my run-ins with Johnny Law have grown markedly infrequent in recent years. My <a href="http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide/portland-poor-again/">last ticket</a> was in June 2005 -- almost eight years ago! And eight is practically nine, which is basically a decade, so it's been more or less a decade since my last ticket. ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 12:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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       <title>Jamaican Me Crazy</title>
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		   <![CDATA[As with any major entertainment event, this year's Super Bowl had its share of surprises and controversy. For example, there was the power outage -- and I'm not just talking about how [underperforming player] ruined things for the [team name]! Then there was the halftime show, when two homeless ladies rushed the stage and sang a song with Beyonce. And that's to say nothing of the game itself, which ended in a victory for one of the teams while the other team did not make enough points to achieve victory (or so I am told)!]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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       <title>Low-Capacity Magazines</title>
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		   <![CDATA[You are not supposed to buy the gossip magazines that you see at the supermarket. They are posted at the checkout because you are supposed to flip through them while waiting in line. They're not intended for purchase. The barcodes on the covers aren't even real. If somebody tries to buy one, the cashier is supposed to discreetly hand them a card that says, "Up-to-the-minute gossip is available for free on the Internet." ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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       <title>Anti-Anti-Semitism</title>
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		   <![CDATA[I want to talk about anti-semitism. That's because I don't understand it, and I like talking about things I don't understand, as evidenced by my lecture series "How to Program A Universal Remote Control." ]]>
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	   <pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:00:00 MST</pubDate>
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