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		<title>Sibling Rivalry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not the best-looking of guys. That&#8217;s hardly a revelation to any of my friends, but those of you who only know me through the Cyberverse might be envisaging a 5&#8242; 5&#8243;, handsome, muscular, dark-haired, rugged, bearded Celtic warrior. That&#8217;s just my radio face. Back in 1991 a couple of girls came into Blackwell&#8217;s and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1826&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Future</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently became involved with the Rhondda Cynon Taff Ratepayers&#8217; Action Group. We&#8217;re a bunch of disaffected folk who intend to field Independent candidates at the May 2012 council election. The plan is to challenge the Labour stranglehold on the former mining valleys of South Wales. This hegemony has existed (barring a very brief period [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1782&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insights into the Mind of a Working Man</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in school with a guy whose younger brother went into the army after he buggered up his O Levels. After that he trained as a plumber. He is married, has two grown-up sons, and lives not far from me. We frequent the same pubs from time to time. He divides his time between [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1774&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Behind the Mask</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 18:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been fascinated by masks for as long as I can remember. The transformative power of a face covering taps into something atavistic in my soul. I used to love superhero stories where mild-mannered Bert Bloggs would put on a mask and become Bastion, the defender of the weak. The following day he&#8217;d go to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1752&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not Born Beautiful</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started work on this about six weeks ago before losing track of it. It was originally entitled A Life More Ordinary, and explored why I&#8217;d managed to stay alive, drug-free, and without a criminal record, in the shithole I&#8217;ve chosen to call &#8216;Home&#8217; all my life. Things happened which made me think that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1562&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meet the Parents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned in a previous entry that C— comes from a very religious family. In fact, her father is the Pastor of one of the evangelical churches in the area. She herself professes to be a born-again Christian. Although it&#8217;s never been a topic for serious discussion between us, I don&#8217;t mind admitting that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1697&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Physics Vol 2: Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A word of warning: If you thought Space was complicated, wait until you start thinking about Time. As Cypher says in The Matrix, &#8216;Hang onto your hat, Dorothy, because Kansas is going bye-bye.&#8217; Most scientists will point out that what we call &#8216;time&#8217; is merely a way of rationalising the implications of the Second Law [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1598&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review (The Stats)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 13:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1590&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Been an Odd Few Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 12:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Still, it&#8217;s been a major improvement on last year. Last year I didn&#8217;t go out over Christmas because of a combination of a heavy cold, heavy snow, and a heavy fall on the coccyx which managed to fuck my back up well into the springtime. Even though we haven&#8217;t had any snow – only constant rain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1582&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dear Father Christmas&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 19:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve O'Gorman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or &#8216;Santa Claus&#8217;, as people insist on calling you nowadays. I&#8217;m not surprised. You&#8217;re operating on a multinational basis these days, and the US dominates everything from nuclear weaponry to the very language we use. All the same, I hope you don&#8217;t mind if I use the name I knew you by when we first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=cosmictigger.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2847504&amp;post=1569&amp;subd=cosmictigger&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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