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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[“Like the cleaning of a house, it never ends.” – It Never Ends Announcer Back in 2006, when the darkness of Bush the Younger, Speaker Hastert, and Majority Leader Frist still ruled the land, political scientist Jacob Hacker published a book called The Great Risk Shift.  In it, he made a persuasive and disheartening argument [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1566&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Keep Wasting Time</title>
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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&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1572&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Drones?</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/02/01/what-drones/</link>
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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&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1561&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psst, We’re Still Still Not Bombing Iran</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/29/psst-were-still-still-not-bombing-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[posted late for no particular reason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real men want to go to Tehran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remember Desert One?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Israelis can’t do it by themselves and we aren’t going to – end of story]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Nuc-u-lar, it’s pronounced nuc-u-lar.” – Homer Simpson “Oh, whatever.” – Drill Sergeant “Nuc-u-lar.” – Homer Simpson Even before the Iraq War started, there was a fantasy on the right for using military force against the Islamic Republic of Iran.  After our Mesopotamian adventure went tits up, any chance of that being a full scale ground [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1558&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mutual Ignorance</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/25/mutual-ignorance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SOPA/PIPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of the Possible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Information Superhighway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Dodd is a practiced whore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hire Russ Feingold!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oh money and politics – is there anything you can fuck up?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Gentlemen, we’ve got to sink this Lisa Lionheart doll, and fast!  It’s time to call in a favor from Washington.” – Malibu Stacy Executive “Yes.  Yes, I understand.  I’ll take care of it personally.” – Congressman “Dad, did you hear something?” – Lisa Simpson “I-unno.” – Homer Simpson After last Wednesday’s unprecedented strike and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1554&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Russian Is Cut</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/22/the-russian-is-cut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Art of the Possible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Presidential Primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[all I want for Christmas is for Newt Gingrich to be the Red nominee]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It’s a bad cut!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports metaphors are fun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Bobo column after Newt wins Florida will be epic]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“That cactus is right!” – Homer Simpson Four years ago, South Carolina did more than any other state to set up McCain-Obama, the best possible matchup.  And while Mitt Romney is still the most likely Red nominee – even after last night’s Palmetto drubbing – if he is going to lose, this is pretty much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1551&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Other People’s Rules</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/18/other-peoples-rules/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SOPA/PIPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Information Superhighway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Dodd – you old whore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[come back when you learn how to do math MPAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[everybody panic – there’s no Wikipedia!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fuck the poor!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Stop it, you two, this is Thanksgiving, so glue friendly or I’ll take your glue away and then no one will have any glue to glue with!” – Homer Simpson “Dad, this isn’t about glue.  It’s about territoriality.  He only wants the glue because I’m using it.” – Lisa Simpson For the first time in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1548&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Moment of Clarity</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/15/a-moment-of-clarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print is Dead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Systems Analyst]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The New York Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[never underestimate the power of professional pique and jealousy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skeptical reporting – what a concept]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[this is the mess you made PolitiFact]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I work like a Japanese beaver!” – Homer Simpson “Oh, really?  I came to see you three times today.  Twice you were sleeping and once you were kicking that ball of electrical tape around.” – Marge Simpson The main political internet brushfire this week wasn’t New Hampshire.  It was the pathetic, hat in hand, please-sir-can-I-have-some-more, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1545&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Perennial Killer Silence</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/11/perennial-killer-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sophomoric Imperialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of the Possible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[end the war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[somebody come through for me in the Palmetto State – okay?]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thanks George!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Nothing beats a stroll in cattle country.  Hi, I’m Troy McClure!  You may remember me from such educational films as ‘Two Minus Three Equals Negative Fun’ and ‘Firecrackers: The Silent Killer’.” – Troy McClure As the Granite State anti-climax echoes among the politically engaged today, heavy with themes about the inevitability of Mitt Romney and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1540&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tabling a Debate</title>
		<link>http://tetheredswimming.com/2012/01/08/tabling-a-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zeno Amerikanos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[2012 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2016 Election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Art of the Possible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[good thing Joe Biden is older than dirt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the alternatives to Obama are really frightening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren 2016!]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“I’m not saying it won’t work, I’m just saying it’s dishonest.” – Marge Simpson “Well, if we agree, then why are we arguing?” – Homer Simpson There’s an old saw about academic fights that says that the reason they can get so vicious is because there is so very little at stake.  The same rule [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tetheredswimming.com&amp;blog=1104862&amp;post=1537&amp;subd=tetheredswimming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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