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15 May 2010

Top 10 Posts: May 9 - May 14

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  1. Lower Churchill:  Imaginary Project.  Imaginary News Story.
  2. Rumpole and the Double Dippity-Do
  3. Potato, potato:  Hydro version
  4. Rumpole and the Piss Pot
  5. That was then. This is now:  Desperation edition
  6. The Same and the Different
  7. Desperation
  8. It’s always about the money
  9. Hydro Quebec not an issue:  Ed Martin
  10. How our system doesn’t work

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