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		<title>Welcome</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:57:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Website will be devoted to essays and insights related to diversity, addiction/recovery, psychological growth issues, global perspectives, the disenfranchised,  aesthetics, and cultural values. The core value streaming throughout the essays I write will be about returning to our innocence, which sometimes requires a trauma, a jolt, an invasion of the “other,” or a paradigm [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magdalene</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her memory, Like a maimed horse, Was put down, Itself, a faint recollection Of things forgotten, Misplaced, a frayed pocket Beyond repair. Tubes of frozen toothpaste In the freezer, Dusty combs Under the hot-water heater, A letter from a Teen-age boyfriend Under her mattress, A wristwatch On a windowsill, Catching the precision Of the sun&#39;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoarders</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  I recently read a local newspaper story about an eccentric mother and son who were hoarders, midnight garbage rummagers, and isolationists. The mother was eventually admitted to a hospital’s nursing home. She died not long after the remains of her 79 year-old son’s body were found in the basement rubble of their home, two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slavoj Zizek and Moral Relativism</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/slavoj-zizek-and-moral-relativism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 18:18:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mind you, I have my own ongoing battles with academic theorists in the Humanities, Communications, Social Sciences, and the Arts. Many of these tenure-track theorists continue to live in the realm of abstraction that has become elitist, exclusionary, and so far removed from primary sources that their journal-driven monographs have morphed into theoretical meta-narratives about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anti-Big-Government Movement in America</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:35:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[affirmative action]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I would ask my readers to please keep in mind that my analysis of the anti-big-government movement in the U.S. is only an analysis. In general, I do not reach the same conclusions that many of these sometimes disparate anti-big-government groups come to). In a densely-packed essay in The Nation, Eric Alterman outlined his reasons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember the day. It was fifteen years ago. I was standing outside my father&#8217;s apartment. We were engaged in a conversation about Mary, my stepmother, who had just been diagnosed with esophageal cancer. My dad made a vain attempt at telling me that he wasn&#8217;t bothered by my stepmother&#8217;s inability to travel. I didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man of My Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mottled crowd Had refused to interrupt My slowly raised head, Feeling, as I did, Like a dazed bird Rushing from an Aging falcon. I crawled up the stairs, Stopping to rest My right arm on The damp concrete As I lifted the strands Of my hair, Imagining, for a moment, A daffodil-of-an-Austrian Prince leaning [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurance and the Profit Motive</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 02:14:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The next two blog entries I will be posting consist of a two-part series about the American Health Insurance crisis. In the first essay, I discuss the Health Care industry in the U.S. as a profit-driven corporation. In the second essay, I will be looking at privatized Health Insurance as a crap-shoot) Before I begin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alcoholism and Free Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Alcohol Recovery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to an NPR program, “On Point,” the other day and a writer was being interviewed about his book in which he claims that alcoholism is not a disease but an ism of  choice. I don&#8217;t believe there are too many recovering addicts or alcoholics who would give themselves over to the generalized [...]]]></description>
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