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		<title>Teachers Who Over-Market Themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 06:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mindless Douchebaggery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aristotle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confucius]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It makes me crazy when the lounge lizards of PS 121 refer to themselves as “educators.” Confucius was an educator. Aristotle was an educator. I’ll even throw a bone to Friedrich Froebel. But if part of your day consists of gym, coloring, or naptime, you’re a babysitter with a health plan.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/professorx21.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-294" title="professorx2" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/professorx21-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>It makes me crazy when the lounge lizards of PS 121 refer to themselves as “educators.” Confucius was an educator. Aristotle was an educator. I’ll even throw a bone to Friedrich Froebel. But if part of your day consists of gym, coloring, or naptime, you’re a babysitter with a health plan.</p>
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		<title>The Insurance-less</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 06:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bambi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cole Trickle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[days of thunder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fast and the Furious]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Formula 1]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Geico]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nascar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the matrix]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know times are tough, but unless you live in a city the size of Singapore or have committed to traversing about the open plains via mass transit, give friendly folks at Geico a call. Last week while heading north on the Taconic Parkway to visit some redneck relatives a deer darted in front of [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/do_not_tailgate_i_have_no_insurance_bumper_sticker-p128124373149249159z74sk_4001.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-310" title="do_not_tailgate_i_have_no_insurance_bumper_sticker-p128124373149249159z74sk_400" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/do_not_tailgate_i_have_no_insurance_bumper_sticker-p128124373149249159z74sk_4001-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>I know times are tough, but unless you live in a city the size of Singapore or have committed to traversing about the open plains via mass transit, give friendly folks at Geico a call. Last week while heading north on the Taconic Parkway to visit some redneck relatives a deer darted in front of my recently acquired Camaro.</p>
<p>Now I’m no formula 1 driver, but according to Cole Trickle the worst thing to do when faced with a head on collision is to stomp on the breaks. First, you run the risk of veering into even more hazardous circumstances and second, even if you manage to keep the car straight, the dick monkey behind you will likely ram you into a whiplash sponsored wonderland.</p>
<p>Thinking that a baby buck was no match for my American metal … um fiberglass … I floored the sucker, dreaming of venison stew and mounted antlers. To my surprise however, the agile creature pulled a Matrix-like mid-air time stoppage jammy the result of which was a kicked in windshield and a largely unscathed Bambi daddy.</p>
<p>In that instant I experienced a variety of emotions: gratitude to the Days of Thunder writers for helping me narrowly escape doom, empathy towards animal rights activists who suggest that we are encroaching on natural habitats, and embarrassment for … well … I indeed had a load in my shorts. Of course all three were ass-kicked to the curb a second later when the Honda driving Mexican Motorist to my rear collided with my now totaled muscle car. Clearly he wasn’t a movie buff.</p>
<p>I suppose I should be thankful. Bruises asides, I walked away from a horrific looking crash site. The bitch of it was neither the deer nor the cerveza sipper had insurance which left me paying for an accident I didn’t cause. Now you’d expect such behavior from socialistically inclined wildlife, but as for the Fast and the Furious wannabe out there, you sir should be ashamed. Seriously, it’s only fifteen minutes, amigo. And you know that lizard-like pitch man hablo Espanol. Thanks for the highway turd.</p>
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		<title>Covert Raisins</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 05:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food Rules and Other Stuff I’m Too Lazy to Classify]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Rules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Raisins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing against the raisin. I just think it’s one of those foods you need to be emotionally prepared for to enjoy. I freakin’ hate it when a raisin sneaks up on me unexpectedly. In a bagel, in a cookie, in a salad, for the love of God. I bite into a raisin unknowingly [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Raisin1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-275" title="Raisin" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Raisin1-300x210.jpg" width="300" height="210" /></a>I have nothing against the raisin. I just think it’s one of those foods you need to be emotionally prepared for to enjoy. I freakin’ hate it when a raisin sneaks up on me unexpectedly. In a bagel, in a cookie, in a <em>salad,</em> for the love of God. I bite into a raisin unknowingly and I’m pissed off for three days. It’s the ninja fruit, and someone has to stop it.</p>
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		<title>Personalized License Plate.</title>
		<link>http://testyturnip.com/?p=118</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 06:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask Jackson Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Advice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ford Focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mindless Douchebaggery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[personalized license plate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jackson, I’m thinking of getting a personalized license plate. Any ideas? Yes, stick your head in the oven. This sort of state sponsored Twinkie-dickness makes me want to cause a twenty-car pile up. The other day I saw this Ford Focus driving jacktard with a license plate that read “IBCROZIN”. I’m sure he meant to [...]]]></description>
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<p><strong>Jackson, I’m thinking of getting a personalized license plate. Any ideas?</strong></p>
<p>Yes, stick your head in the oven. This sort of state sponsored Twinkie-dickness makes me want to cause a twenty-car pile up. The other day I saw this Ford Focus driving jacktard with a license plate that read “IBCROZIN”. I’m sure he meant to say “IB a delusional dickweed”, but someone who drives a Smart Car probably took that.</p>
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<li><strong>A Related Question:</strong> <strong>Should I buy a Smart Car?</strong> Yes, of course, after all it is very smart. You just figured out how to never get laid again.</li>
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		<title>Flying Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 06:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ask Jackson Answers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like life is moving too fast. How can I slow down? Time doesn’t pass you by. You experience every second. Want it to slow down?  Go to the dentist, stand in a bank line, or visit your mother-in-law.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><b><i><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iStock_MIL000012063555XSmall.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-645" alt="stern old lady" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/iStock_MIL000012063555XSmall-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>I feel like life is moving too fast. How can I slow down?</i></b></p>
<p>Time doesn’t pass you by. You experience every second. Want it to slow down?  Go to the dentist, stand in a bank line, or visit your mother-in-law.</p>
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		<title>The Unhappy Ending</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 06:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Now That's Just Awkward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Awkward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Happy Ending]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t tried it, you’ve thought about it. Be honest, now. Here’s the scene. You’re naked, comfortable, slightly aroused from an amazing tension-relieving hour with a sexy young thing who really knows her way around the body. Plus, you’ve been picking up on the signs. A smile. A bit of heavy breathing. Some slight [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Massage1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-304" title="Massage" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Massage1-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>If you haven’t tried it, you’ve thought about it. Be honest, now.</p>
<p>Here’s the scene. You’re naked, comfortable, slightly aroused from an amazing tension-relieving hour with a sexy young thing who really knows her way around the body. Plus, you’ve been picking up on the signs. A smile. A bit of heavy breathing. Some slight innuendos about pressure and release. So you figure, why not ask for that little something extra.</p>
<p>Yeah, it’s usually about this time that you realize the “heavy breathing” was asthma-induced. The smile was in your imagination. And let’s face it, guys could turn a woman’s cough into a come-on if they’re optimistic and sporting wood.</p>
<p>Here’s a hard-learned lesson. If your masseuse is sporting all white and works at a doctor-referred physical therapy clinic, she probably isn’t going to jerk you off. More likely you’ll end up incarcerated and on the other end of that sexual dynamic.</p>
<p><strong>A Related Note:</strong>  To be fair, not getting a happy ending at “Happy Endings Massage” is just false advertising and no one likes a liar.</p>
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		<title>Senseless Schoolchildren</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bus Stop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[School Bus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Walk To School]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why the hell do I have to slow down every fifteen feet so little Johnny can ass-drag his way to the bus? First of all, have you seen these fat little bastards? They should be walking. Okay, it’s cold. It’s dark. They’re only five. Whatever. Fine. Blow my tax dollars on the most inefficient transportation [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bus_e1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-313" title="bus_e" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bus_e1-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>Why the hell do I have to slow down every fifteen feet so little Johnny can ass-drag his way to the bus? First of all, have you seen these fat little bastards? They should be walking. Okay, it’s cold. It’s dark. They’re only five. Whatever. Fine. Blow my tax dollars on the most inefficient transportation system on the planet. But you know what? At least have the kiddies pay attention. To me, if Johnny boy lacks the brains to get out of the way of a speeding Camaro, well, then that’s just Darwin at work.</p>
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		<title>Hand-Me-Down Clothes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 06:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Poor Man's Working Woes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clothes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hand-Me-Down]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Poor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re not poor unless you went to school sporting someone else’s jeans with a patched knee and a coat that was either two sizes too small or so big your mom (that crazy bitch) tried to make you and your brother wear it at the same time. Forget fashion and style. A poor kid’s clothes [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sneakers1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-315" title="sneakers" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/sneakers1-150x150.jpg" width="150" height="150" /></a>You’re not poor unless you went to school sporting someone else’s jeans with a patched knee and a coat that was either two sizes too small or so big your mom (that crazy bitch) tried to make you and your brother wear it at the same time. Forget fashion and style. A poor kid’s clothes are functional. I hear kids today bitching about not having $100 pants or some brand-name handbag and I want to punch them in the face. Forget grounding and time-outs. I’m talking an old school, close-fisted drunk dad doing an Ike Turner-learns kung fu impression-style beating.<br />
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<p><strong>A Related Note:</strong> When you are this poor, duct tape is considered clothing. There were many days when I would tape my Converses back together, or use that wonder material to hem some pants.</p>
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		<title>Drunken Pup, Lazy Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 07:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alcoholism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NIB]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not one to hoist placards and marshal for causes, but the social ill that is animal alcoholism cannot be ignored. Canines are apparently the most at risk given their affinity for red wine. Must be some Italian Shepherd mixed in with that Bloodhound. And remember, animal alcoholics are not the only ones to suffer. [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/28.-Drunken-Pup.jpeg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-632" alt="28. Drunken Pup" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/28.-Drunken-Pup-235x300.jpeg" width="235" height="300" /></a>I’m not one to hoist placards and marshal for causes, but the social ill that is animal alcoholism cannot be ignored. Canines are apparently the most at risk given their affinity for red wine. Must be some Italian Shepherd mixed in with that Bloodhound.</p>
<p>And remember, animal alcoholics are not the only ones to suffer. Pack members, pups, miscellaneous bitches who may or may not be those puppy’s mommas, they all suffer the consequences of a life gone astray.</p>
<p>What’s that?  It’s an ad for stain resistant carpet, you say?</p>
<p>Well who could have cracked that complex visual riddle?  Granted I’m standing in the flooring section of the Home Depot, but cut me some slack.  It’s 6am for Christ’s sake.  I’m not big on subtle.  Want to sell me?  Place your product in a frat house full of drunken, mud wrestling coeds with the school’s wildebeest mascot dropping a deuce in the background.  Then split screen that sum-bitch with a picture of baby lying on a pristine white carpet with a tagline that reads, “Like it never happened.”</p>
<p>I’d buy that.</p>
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		<title>Overpaying For Pet Healthcare</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2013 06:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jackson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Animals and Environment and Other Rights-less Wonders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dog]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Providing your pooch with proper care is admirable. Flying in a team of transplant specialists from Geneva in a last-ditch attempt to save your sixteen year-old Great Dane is just freakin’ stupid. Dogs die. That sucks. But deal with it, you pansy. Listening to how people dropped thousands on pet procedures pisses me off. I’m [...]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pet-doctor240w1.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-279" title="pet-doctor240w" alt="" src="http://testyturnip.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pet-doctor240w1-203x300.jpg" width="203" height="300" /></a>Providing your pooch with proper care is admirable. Flying in a team of transplant specialists from Geneva in a last-ditch attempt to save your sixteen year-old Great Dane is just freakin’ stupid. Dogs die. That sucks. But deal with it, you pansy. Listening to how people dropped thousands on pet procedures pisses me off. I’m no saint, but if you have that kind of coin, then donate it to a children’s hospital, dickwad.</p>
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