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The Price of Gasoline and Behavior Modification

Just came across this interesting nullarticle on world wide retail prices of gasoline. Believe it or not, the prices range from just $.12 a gallon (Venezuela) to $6.00+ a gallon (Amsterdam). It appears that some countries tax gasoline (cars are evil, take the train), and others artificially lower the cost of gasoline as a benefit to it's...
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How Serial Killers are Born

Went to Borders tonight to look at some harmless tattoo mgazines (gonna open a shop soon). Sat down in the coffee bar, and notice some gay, skinny high-schoolish kids about top lay music or some such shit. They're all dressed in white, bare feet -- very cult-like. They walk around the coffee bar area, handing out flowers and peppermints and...
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In Defense of Suicide
I was curious, a few days ago, about those who may have tried to commit suicide and failed. I was interested in what their lives would be like afterward. Was it cathartic? Did they try again later? Was it a wake-up call to themselves or those around them?
What I found, was that the term 'suicide survivor' does not actually refer...
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Dear Diary SG,

I've been thinking today what to write. I mean, what do people write about on this site? I've been reading journals, but it's not so streight forward, I think. Some people write about their day, their life...a few random lines, maybe. My life is a fucking mess, it'd depress the shit out of the site...bring the whole site down karmically. So, I'll...
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Dear SG - Diary,

I'm on a conference call right now -- multi-tasking is evil. Last night, I dreamed that a friend had rented a boat, and the boat had drifted away from the dock. I was swimming like crazy trying to get the boat back, and I couldn't find it anywhere....I was out in the huge ocean-like lake, and I couldn't find it anywhere....
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