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		<title>Dinner Party Intellectualism</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/05/13/dinner-party-intellectualism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 16:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rollback]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thomas E. Woods Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard and Columbia should be ashamed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[he’s right about the Drug War being dumb though]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[his digs at Krugman are so childish as to be entertaining in their own right]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarian wingnut welfare must be sweet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[No True Scotsman!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse by Thomas E. Woods Jr. Regnery Publishing, pp232 ~$17 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Nobles, Amazon) “I’m having a little trouble with the government.” – Hank Scorpio “Aww, those jerks, always walking over the small businessman.  Don’t get me started about the government.” – Homer Simpson There are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1616&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mitzvah</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/04/29/tethered-swimming-mitzvah/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Apr 2012 16:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Beinart]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Crisis of Zionism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Haaretz would be accused of anti-Semitism if it was published in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[if Israel wants to destroy itself – we can’t stop them]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Netanyahu is a total fucktard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[only Israel can save Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what is it with religious nuts and land?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Crisis of Zionism by Peter Beinart Times Books, pp289 ~$20 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) “And for you, sir?” – Izzy’s Deli Waitress “Oh, let’s see, I want a nice sandwich, but the Joey Bishop?  Eh, too fatty.  The Jackie Mason?  I don’t know, sauerkraut makes me gassy.  The Bruce Willis?  I don’t even [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1611&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tri-Corner</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 16:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Skocpol and Williamson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buy gold!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuck you Rick Santelli]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuck you Roger Ailes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[I wonder what politics will be like when today’s kids are the ones at the ass end of cohort replacement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ignorance is bliss]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Tea Party and the Remaking of Republican Conservatism by Theda Skocpol and Vanessa Williamson Oxford University Press, pp 245 ~$20 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) “By the power vested in me, I hereby strip you of your ceremonial bell . . .” – Mayor Quimby “No!  Nooo!” – Homer Simpson “. . . and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1606&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trust, Risk and Appropriate Paranoia</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/04/01/trust-risk-and-appropriate-paranoia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2012 16:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Airport Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bruce Schneier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Institutionalized Stupidity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Liars & Outliers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuck the TSA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk can never be eliminated – get over yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stupid security costs us all thousands of dollars per year]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Liars &#38; Outliers: Enabling the Trust That Society Needs to Thrive by Bruce Schneier John Wiley &#38; Sons, pp 366, ~$20 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) “Isis headquarters makes Fort Knox look like a gingerbread house.  Only two means of ingress, the first, at street level, impenetrable after six.  The second, through an access door [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1602&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Marty McFly (Didn’t) Bring Down the Republic</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/03/18/how-marty-mcfly-didnt-bring-down-the-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 17:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Back to Our Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Sirota]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[this book deserves to be ignored on shelves forever]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unsupported generalizations are bad for non-fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[your childhood is not special]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World WE Live in Now – Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything by David Sirota Ballantine Books, 276pp, ~$15 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) “You know, that dance wasn’t as safe as they said it was.” – Fry Syndicated columnists employ a variety of tricks to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1599&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Better World</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/03/04/a-better-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bill McKibben]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deep Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eaarth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books rarely change the world]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mmm – high fructose corn syrup]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[we are so screwed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future by Bill McKibben Times Books, 261pp, ~$10 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet by Bill McKibben Times Books, 253pp, ~$10 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) “And I found the new Al Gore book!” – Lisa Simpson “Sane [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1592&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>They Hate Us for Our Science</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/02/19/they-hate-us-for-our-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 17:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Specter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mmmm frankenfood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[synthetic biology sounds cool as balls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the anti-vaccine people can seriously go fuck themselves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[this two week thing is kinda nice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives by Michael Specter Penguin Press, 294pp, ~$15 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) “But first, we all stink.” – Kent Brockman “We all?  Hey!” – Citizen “That’s according to a national survey ranking Springfield as the least popular city in America.  In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1585&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>[Stage Whisper] Fuck the Poor</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/02/05/stage-whisper-fuck-the-poor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacob S. Hacker]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Pierson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winner-Take-All Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eat the rich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuck the poor!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nixonland is still a great book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Romney would sign terrible legislation and still be hard to get rid of]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer&#8211;And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class by Jacob S. Hacker and Paul Pierson Simon &#38; Schuster, pp 368, ~$15 (Powell’s, Barnes &#38; Noble, Amazon) The Great Risk Shift: Why American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement Aren&#8217;t Secure &#8212; and How You Can Fight Back by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1566&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Keep Wasting Time</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/02/05/lets-keep-wasting-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Solipsism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[time for a little housecleaning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Isn’t that just pointless busy work?” – Lisa Simpson “Bulls eye.  Get cracking.” – Miss Hoover A little digging into the archives tells me that it’s been more than three years since I did anything resembling site maintenance around here.  Hopefully that’s a testament both to my laziness and to the relative decency of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1572&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Drones?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Places Other than America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robot War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophomoric Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drone questions start at the 26:00 mark of the Techdirt link]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end the wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama’s a lot more serious about his enemies list than Nixon was]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“You know, you humans are so scared of a little robot competition you won’t even let us on the field.” – Bender On Monday, in an event that was equal parts participatory democracy and election stunt, President Obama took questions via Google Plus that had been voted on by Americans connected enough to know and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&#038;blog=1104862&#038;post=1561&#038;subd=tetheredswimming&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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