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The 'Winners' of the Wired News Saddest-Cubicle Contest

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2007/11/gallery_saddest_cubicle

Extreme rich -poor divides

http://deputy-dog.com/2007/09/19/extreme-rich-poor-divides/

You can't pray a lie

From Huck Finn: Say, gimme a chaw tobacker, won't ye?" I didn't have none, so he left. I went to the raft, and set down in the wigwam to think. But I couldn't come to nothing. I thought till I wore my head sore, but I couldn't see no way out of the trouble. After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him - 282 - a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars. Once I said to myself it would be a thousand times better for Jim to be a slave at home where his family was, as long as he'd got to be a slave, and so I'd better write a letter to Tom Sawyer and tell him to tell Miss Watson where he was. But I soon give up that notion for two things: she'd be mad and disgusted at his rascality and ungratefulness for leaving her, and so she'd sell h