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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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		<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>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>Tea Party Patriots, Part II</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog essay, I attempted to unravel the many complaints of the Tea Party followers. Three issues, however, seem to stick in the craw of those who believe in their heart of hearts that America is on the road to self-destruction: (1) The continuing loss of freedom because of big government and what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teenage Love Poem</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Showing up on time Is the easy part. The dashboard of My rented car Free of dust, Wax-clean, Vacuumed carpets And a lemon smelling Tag dangling from The rear view mirror. One more look In the sun-visor Mirror, an angled glance At the straggly sideburns. Fly firmly zipped. Spitting on my closed Index fingers, I [...]]]></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>Self-Discovery Journeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I was well into my adulthood before I began to figure out who I am, it is difficult for me to see where the desire to know about myself  could ever be a bad thing. The self-knowledge journey continues and, I hope, will be with me for the rest of my life. On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lorrie Moore, &#8220;A Gate at the Stairs&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to write a review of a novel that has significant events that cannot be revealed without destroying the tension of those events. In the same vein, Internet film reviews often caution their readers that the review contains spoiler information that gives away key plot information. If you&#8217;re writing a review of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socialism, Capitalism, Capitalocialism</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/mild-ravings-of-a-capitalocialist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Sep 2009 23:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the recent controversy over Health Insurance, it occurred to me that I remain an incorrigible  Jekyll-and-Hyde  when it comes to public services. On the one hand, I want my roads to be fixed, my DMV to have short lines, my Social Security Office to answer its phone. On the other hand, I complain every time  [...]]]></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>
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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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