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<title>PI PIE</title>
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<title>I’ll Be Knocking Out Beautiful Poetry This Whole Goddamn Flight</title>
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<modified>2012-02-08T19:19:35Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-08T19:19:35Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-08T19:19:35Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">What will it be about? Anything. There are no limits to my subject material. I’ll write a poem about flowers. I’ll write a poem about dragons. I’ll write a poem about a flower that fights a dragon and you’ll be...</summary>
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<![CDATA[<p></P><strong>What will it be about?</strong> Anything. <blockquote>There are no limits to my subject material. I’ll write a poem about flowers. I’ll write a poem about dragons. I’ll write a poem about a flower that fights a dragon and you’ll be all smug and think, Well obviously the dragon would win. But don’t get too comfortable with that mindset because, like a stealth bomber ravaging your brainscape with heartfelt language, here I come out of the blue with all these poetic details explaining why the flower winning is not only plausible but necessary. -- <a title="McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: I’ll Be Knocking Out Beautiful Poetry This Whole Goddamn Flight." href="http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ill-be-knocking-out-beautiful-poetry-this-whole-goddamn-flight">McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Monologue: </a></blockquote></p>]]>

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<title>Koan for Our Era</title>
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<modified>2012-02-08T18:14:50Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-08T18:14:46Z</issued>
<id>tag:americandigest.org,2012:/sidelines//3.17109</id>
<created>2012-02-08T18:14:46Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">If you enter “Dostoyevsky” into the search function of Twitter, you don’t come up with much interesting these days. --Dostoyevsky — Marginal Revolution...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>If you enter “Dostoyevsky”</strong> into the search function of Twitter, you don’t come up with much interesting these days. --<a title="Dostoyevsky — Marginal Revolution" href="http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2012/02/dostoyevsky.html#comment-157556759">Dostoyevsky — Marginal Revolution</a>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Comment of the Moment</title>
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<modified>2012-02-08T17:49:11Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-08T17:13:14Z</issued>
<id>tag:americandigest.org,2012:/sidelines//3.17107</id>
<created>2012-02-08T17:13:14Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Clint is right. It IS halftime in America. We&apos;re down by about 5 trillion. Time to switch quarterbacks. -- Clint Eastwood&apos;s Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: The Untold Obama Connection - The Hollywood Reporter...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>Clint is right.</strong> It <u>IS</u> halftime in America. We're down by about 5 trillion. Time to switch quarterbacks. -- <a title="Clint Eastwood's Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: The Untold Obama Connection - The Hollywood Reporter" href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/clint-eastwood-chrysler-super-bowl-commercial-287778">Clint Eastwood's Chrysler Super Bowl Ad: The Untold Obama Connection - The Hollywood Reporter</a>]]>

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<entry>
<title>&quot;Get me re-right&quot;</title>
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<modified>2012-02-08T17:50:08Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-08T16:56:55Z</issued>
<id>tag:americandigest.org,2012:/sidelines//3.17106</id>
<created>2012-02-08T16:56:55Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> Elementary school students learn what journalists do. “Everyday exciting things happen” to journalists, according to a third-grade textbook found by the Stuff Journalists Like blog. “A good journalist works very hard to make sure his or her stories are...</summary>
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</p><a title="Elementary school students learn what journalists do. | JIMROMENESKO.COM" href="http://jimromenesko.com/2012/02/08/elementary-school-students-learn-what-journalists-do/"><strong>Elementary school students</strong> learn what journalists do.</a> “<blockquote>Everyday exciting things happen” to journalists, according to a third-grade textbook found by the Stuff Journalists Like blog. “A good journalist works very hard to make sure his or her stories are interesting and true.”</blockquote>]]>

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<title>Mitt did it all wrong</title>
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<modified>2012-02-08T05:11:16Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-08T05:11:16Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-08T05:11:16Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">No matter who you support this year, you have to admit Mitt Romney went about becoming president the wrong way. Instead of wasting his time learning how business works and building a multi-billion-dollar company that really did save or create...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>No matter who you support this year,</strong> you have to admit Mitt Romney went about becoming president the wrong way. <blockquote>Instead of wasting his time learning how business works and building a multi-billion-dollar company that really did save or create hundreds of thousands of jobs, Mitt should have lived off his daddy's  fortune like Jack Kennedy. Chasing skirts and molesting teenage virgin is a lot more fun than figuring out how to revive an old business. Instead, Mitt Romney gave his inheritance to charity. Who does that anymore? --<a title="Mitt did it all wrong ｫ Don Surber" href="http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/51024"> ｫ Don Surber</a></blockquote>]]>

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<title>Yup, not a teaspoon of testosterone from toenail to topknot</title>
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<modified>2012-02-08T01:09:35Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-08T00:42:01Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-08T00:42:01Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain"> The &quot;O&quot; Face Splat! Geek-in-chief Obama tests marshmallow gun &quot;The Secret Service is going to be mad at me about this,&quot; Obama said, before energetically pumping a compressor and shooting the marshmallow gun, invented by 14-year-old Joey Hudy. Obama...</summary>
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<center><em>The "O" Face</em></center>
<a title="Splat! Geek-in-chief Obama tests marshmallow gun" href="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.315e5cd27fd0fb8bc3628722ff30ac33.91&show_article=1"><strong>Splat!</strong> Geek-in-chief Obama tests marshmallow gun</a> "The Secret Service is going to be mad at me about this,"<blockquote> Obama said, before energetically pumping a compressor and shooting the marshmallow gun, invented by 14-year-old Joey Hudy. Obama watched open-mouthed as the candy shot across the room before crashing into the wall near the entrance to the Red Room, an elegant state parlor which stuffed with rare 19th century French furniture.</blockquote></p>The man who "got" Bin Laden. Yeah, right.
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<title>Landlord&apos;s Nuts</title>
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<modified>2012-02-07T20:55:28Z</modified>
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<summary type="text/plain">I&apos;m sure there will be a lot of takers to explain that house as mental illness, but like I said: I&apos;m not buying. The person went feral. Back into a state of nature. It&apos;s the hunter-gatherer Eden ruined by Western...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>I'm sure there</strong> will be a lot of takers to explain that house as mental illness, but like I said: I'm not buying. <blockquote>The person went feral. Back into a state of nature. It's the hunter-gatherer Eden ruined by Western Civilization that we're told we need to go back to that's on display here. She was living off the land. When the land is covered with stripmalls, pizza and Diet Pepsi represents the nuts and berries. --<a title="Sippican Cottage: So You Want To Be A Landlord" href="http://sippicancottage.blogspot.com/2012/02/so-you-want-to-be-landlord.html">Sippican Cottage: So You Want To Be A Landlord</a></blockquote>]]>

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<title>The Vile Monsters of Planned Parenthood and Their Hostages</title>
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<modified>2012-02-07T20:34:13Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-07T20:31:39Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">Planned Parenthood is very far from the uncontroversial organization the Susan G. Komen Foundation aspires to be. According to its most recent annual report, for 2010, Planned Parenthood sells abortions to nine out of every 10 pregnant women who come...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>Planned Parenthood </strong>is very far from the uncontroversial organization the Susan G. Komen Foundation aspires to be. According to its most recent annual report, for 2010, Planned Parenthood sells abortions to nine out of every 10 pregnant women who come to its clinics. <blockquote>And it's known throughout the country as an implacable and aggressive opponent of any meaningful restrictions on deliberate feticide.... Breast-cancer victims are only the latest hostages taken by Planned Parenthood. Unless the organization is finally held to account, they will surely not be the last. --<a title="Robert George and Carter Snead: Planned Parenthood's Hostages - WSJ.com" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204369404577206692451108960.html?mod=rss_opinion_main">Robert George and Carter Snead:  - WSJ.com</a></blockquote>]]>

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<title>A double whammy on the dumb class.</title>
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<modified>2012-02-07T20:16:02Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-07T20:16:02Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">I still like the Charles Murray argument which is, basically, that the poor are increasingly populated by the cognitively inferior and that taking away certain social controls has lifted the lid off of the crock pot. The cognitively inferior need...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>I still like the Charles Murray argument</strong> which is, basically, that <u>the poor are increasingly populated by the cognitively inferior</u> and that taking away certain social controls has lifted the lid off of the crock pot. <blockquote>The cognitively inferior need stringently enforced social codes in order to stay on the straight and narrow. So what has happened over the past several decades is that the cream of the crop are leaving the areas where dumb people reside, and the voice of morality has diminished. This is a double whammy on the dumb class. --<a title="Folgers ｫ Gucci Little Piggy" href="http://glpiggy.net/2012/02/07/folgers/">Folgers ｫ Gucci Little Piggy</a></blockquote>]]>

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<title>Ten West of COFAX</title>
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<modified>2012-02-07T19:11:11Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-07T19:11:11Z</issued>
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<summary type="text/plain">At 1,000 feet above the water... 40 knots too fast with the glideslope full scale deflection below us. Obviously, this is not going to work. Me- Ok, this is not a stable approach. Let&apos;s go around and try it again....</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>At 1,000 feet above the water...</strong> 40 knots too fast with the glideslope full scale deflection below us. Obviously, this is not going to work. <blockquote>Me- <em>Ok, this is not a stable approach. Let's go around and try it again.</em> He says something that makes me laugh... <em>Now?</em> Me- <em>Yes, now... Go around</em>. -- <a title="Flight Level 390: Ten West of COFAX" href="http://flightlevel390.blogspot.com/2012/02/ten-west-of-cofax.html">Flight Level 390: </a></blockquote>]]>

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<title>View from the Land of NO-Money</title>
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<modified>2012-02-07T17:39:46Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-07T17:39:46Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-07T17:39:46Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">There is not enough money in the world to pay back America&apos;s national debt. Total United States currency (paper and electronic entries in reserve accounts) sums to about $2 trillion. The national debt sums to over $14 trillion. If people...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>There is not enough money in the world</strong> to pay back America's national debt. <blockquote>Total United States currency (paper and electronic entries in reserve accounts) sums to about $2 trillion. The national debt sums to over $14 trillion. If people ever really suspected that the U.S. monetary printing press was broken, there would be the mother of all bank runs. Bond holders would redeem their U.S. debt instead of rolling it over. Savers would hold tightly to any real currency. --<a title="Europe's Wile E. Coyote Moment" href="http://intellectual-detox.com/europes-crisis/">Europe's Wile E. Coyote Moment</a></blockquote>]]>

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<title>Not a dry fly in the house</title>
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<modified>2012-02-06T21:21:26Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-06T21:21:26Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-06T21:21:26Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">On the same day a report revealed the names of a number of top donors to presidential campaigns, President Barack Obama spent time with around 25 wealthy donors who paid $35,800 each to be with him behind closed doors at...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>On the same day a report revealed</strong> the names of a number of top donors to presidential campaigns, President Barack Obama spent time with around 25 wealthy donors who paid $35,800 each to be with him behind closed doors at a Washington hotel. --<a title="President Obama Spends Afternoon With Wealthy Donors In DC ｫ CBS Washington" href="http://washington.cbslocal.com/2012/02/03/president-obama-spends-afternoon-with-wealthy-donors-in-dc/">President Obama Spends Afternoon With Wealthy Donors In DC ｫ CBS Washington</a>

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<entry>
<title>The Choice: A Scion or a Bastard</title>
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<modified>2012-02-06T20:59:23Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-06T20:59:23Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-06T20:59:23Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">Voters this year look set to continue an odd pattern that&apos;s prevailed in presidential politics for a quarter century. They will elect either a candidate with a famous father or with no father. The surviving serious contenders—Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich...</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>Voters this year</strong> look set to continue an odd pattern that's prevailed in presidential politics for a quarter century. <blockquote>They will elect either a candidate with a famous father or with no father. The surviving serious contenders—Barack Obama, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney—all exemplify one of these two categories. For the seventh consecutive election, the winning candidate will be either a privileged prince with an adored, powerful patriarch, or an up-from-nothing scrapper with no relationship with his biological dad. -- <a title="Michael Medved: Presidential Fathers and Sons - WSJ.com" href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204652904577191440888199840.html">Michael Medved: Presidential Fathers and Sons - WSJ.com</a></blockquote>]]>

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<entry>
<title>Gay Choice? Yet More &quot;Settled Science&quot; That Is Becoming Unsettled</title>
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<modified>2012-02-06T20:48:32Z</modified>
<issued>2012-02-06T20:48:32Z</issued>
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<created>2012-02-06T20:48:32Z</created>
<summary type="text/plain">In 1993 geneticist Dean Hamer studied pairs of brothers who were very loosely defined as “exclusively or mostly” homosexual. He claimed to find a pattern in a specific region of the X chromosome that such brothers seemed to disproportionately share....</summary>
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<![CDATA[</p><strong>In 1993 geneticist Dean Hamer</strong> studied pairs of brothers <blockquote>who were very loosely defined as “exclusively or mostly” homosexual. He claimed to find a pattern in a specific region of the X chromosome that such brothers seemed to disproportionately share. This was widely trumpeted in the media as the landmark discovery of a “gay gene.” But Hamer and others failed to subsequently replicate his results. In fact, a 1999 Canadian study contradicted them. Hamer is a gay man who has reportedly stated he hoped his research would help end intolerance toward homosexuals. He also later claimed he’d discovered the “God gene,” so take whatever he says with a grain of DNA. --<a title="Homosexuality: What’s Choice Got to Do With it? - Taki's Magazine" href="http://takimag.com/article/homosexuality_whats_choice_got_to_do_with_it/print#axzz1lcznZ5sK">Homosexuality: What’s Choice Got to Do With it? - Taki's Magazine</a></blockquote>]]>

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