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		<title>this is getting comical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Michael Ledeen, analyzing the causes of voter discontent, lists a bunch of fear-wracked constituencies. Let me add another candidate: sports teams. Considering that with a single phone call Obama managed to jinx the Kentucky Wildcats. The formerly #1 ranked Kentucky Wildcats . . .
I ain&#8217;t superstitious but . . . wow. Just wow.
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		<title>Thank you, Thermos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of my BPA-in-a-can upset I blogged about here, I made a big pot of homemade soup for my daughter&#8217;s lunches.
Then it occurred to me: what if her Thermos food jar is BPA lined?
Good news: it&#8217;s not. I just got an email from a Thermos spokesperson I found on their website stating &#8220;Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You may have seen the headlines recently when Consumer Reports released new a study reporting BPA (Bisphenol A) levels in canned foods.
Here&#8217;s a more extensive write-up of the Consumer Reports report.
You may also have heard that organic companies didn&#8217;t do any better in the study.
I don&#8217;t eat a lot of canned foods, but there&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Propogandists, not scientists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scientists form hypotheses and then subject them to rigorous review and testing.
Propogandists attempt to shape public perception and opinions.
Given the contents of the files leaked from the Climate Research Unit at East Anglica University, it&#8217;s pretty clear the global warming community has been led by propogandists.
Their priority was not science.
It was controlling information. It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The peril of little emperors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Get ready. This is a Dark Post. Perhaps it being November &#38; gray . . .
I remember years ago reading about the Little Emperor syndrome in China: families forced to limit their offspring to one child ended up raising spoilt little boys. I think we&#8217;re seeing a similar effect in the US, albeit through slightly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spending vs. costs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things that bothers me about the healthcare reform debate is that we conflate the terms &#8220;costs&#8221; and &#8220;spending.&#8221;
Here&#8217;s an example that illustrates why I think we need to be careful about this.
Clinton Memorial Hospital (Ohio) purchased an x-ray machine in 1950 for $2800.
Plug that number into an inflation calculator and the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be afraid, be very afraid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you blog, you&#8217;ve probably heard about the new FTC ruling.
Slate&#8217;s got a new piece up about it now.
Allowing these guidelines to take effect would be like giving the government a no-knock warrant to investigate hundreds of thousands of blogs and hundreds of millions of Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter users for … saying nice things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>vulnerability</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just struck me &#8211;  big reason John was such a heartbreaker . . .

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		<title>The perils of Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or maybe that should be &#8220;the perils of stupidity&#8221;?
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		<title>Compare &amp; contrast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frank Wilson, in his lead to a blog post titled Americans regard themselves as citizens, not subjects (YES!!!!), offers this quote by Lord John Dalberg-Acton (the fellow who also coined &#8220;Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely&#8221;):
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
THAT&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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