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Arranged in chronological order (most recent to least recent)
Title	Date
The Worst Afternoon of My Life	12-1-03
A Good Surgeon or a Great Surgeon	11-24-03
Six Things To Do When You're Dying	11-17-03
Hardwired for Mystical Experience	11-10-03
Always Surprises	11-3-03
Dennis Kucinich	10-27-03
Baseball Champs and Chumps	10-20-03
We Are The Jury	10-13-03
Life and Death Moments	10-6-03
How Much Sacrifice is Too Much	09-29-03
A Frodo Moment	09-22-03
The Pornographication of Sex	09-15-03
Celebrate Life	09-8-03
The Luck Factor	09-1-03
We're #1	08-25-03
Hanging Out	08-18-03
Coming Home	08-11-03
Intimate Moments	08-4-03
Whale Rider	07-28-03
Country Fair Worldview	07-21-03
Smarts With Hearts	07-14-03
Paradise Lost, and Found	07-7-03
The Fourth of July	06-30-03
Human Tragedy	06-23-03
Grannie Annie	06-16-03
Chicken Little	06-09-03
Mrs Gulley	06-02-03
Remember the Weavers	05-26-03
Baseball Cups	05-19-03
Beatle Birthday	05-12-03
Shock and Awe	05-05-03
Bat Cave Wisdom	04-28-03
Cure to Kill	04-21-03
Restoring the Spirit	04-14-03
Udder Tampering	04-07-03
Communal PTSD	03-31-03
Dying in Poverty	03-24-03
The Parachute	03-17-03
Mandatory Health Not War	03-10-03
What's Hot, What's Not	03-03-03
Marching With Grandma	02-24-03
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross	02-17-03
Hail Columbia	02-10-03
Rolling Stones	02-03-03
The Penile Wars	01-27-03
X-Box	01-20-03
The Aloha Spirit Era	01-13-03
Happy New Year from the Big Kahuna	01-06-03