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	<description>If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen. â€” Samuel Adams</description>
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		<title>Michio Kaku Droppin&#8217; Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/25/michio-kaku-droppin-knowledge/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/25/michio-kaku-droppin-knowledge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:18:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything Michio Kaku sees in the newspapers points to our perilous transition from a tribal/nationalist civilization to a planetary civilization. Will we make it?
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;There&#8217;s A Reason Education Sucks&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/29/theres-a-reason-education-sucks/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/29/theres-a-reason-education-sucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pottymouth Alert: Unexpurgated Carlinisms Galore.
The world is a complicated place. Usually it makes no sense to speak of a single cause for any big phenomenon. Nevertheless, the Foole was no fool, and and when I first saw the HBO show this video clip is from, I just said &#8220;Yep.&#8221; This is from seven years ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When I Think Black Friday, I Think Steely Dan</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/25/when-i-think-black-friday-i-think-steely-dan/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/25/when-i-think-black-friday-i-think-steely-dan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:38:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slightly dated (2007) topical video at no extra charge. The other Black Friday vids were all a bit boring.
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Proof of Time Travel?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/26/proof-of-time-travel/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/26/proof-of-time-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 11:13:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty years ago and more, Tonio K. had a revelation of the future. It goes a little something like this&#8230;
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street: Only the Beginning</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/25/occupy-wall-street-only-the-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/25/occupy-wall-street-only-the-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2011 14:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Moore gives great interview to Keith Olbermann on KO&#8217;s show, now on Current TV which is NOT AVAILABLE HERE DAMMIT. But you can have all the Fox propaganda you want.
Quoth Moore:
&#8220;These people who stole the pension funds of the American public, who stole their money, who stole the future of our kids and grandkids, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Should an Ant Own an Oak Tree?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/20/should-an-ant-own-an-oak-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/20/should-an-ant-own-an-oak-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 05:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s assume an ant. He or she is an ant of very average size, a quarter inch long. Let&#8217;s assume this is a sort of ant that lives in a house on a plot of land, like one of us. Like me, this ant lives in an average rectangular house about nine times hir own [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ailanthus Versus Sumac, And Some Other Plants</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/04/ailanthus-versus-sumac-and-some-other-plants/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/04/ailanthus-versus-sumac-and-some-other-plants/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Sep 2011 18:41:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been bugging me for a while, and I finally remembered to look it up&#8230; is it Ailanthus or Sumac?
Staghorn sumac is a native plant and quite useful. Ailanthus, also called Tree of Heaven, is a nasty invader which is very good at crowding out natives. The invader seems more common than the native [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Again With The Caving In, Sheesh.</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/01/again-with-the-caving-in-sheesh/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/01/again-with-the-caving-in-sheesh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 11:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So President Obama has let John Boehner tell him when he, the President, can give a jobs speech.
You know what? I think I&#8217;ll just post this poem again.
Barack Origami
The right-wingers reap his amends;
for them, how he folds! How he bends!
That flexible swami,
Barack Origami!
He gives paper cuts to his friends.
It&#8217;s easy to see where it ends;
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rupert Murdoch, American Citizen?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/23/rupert-murdoch-american-citizen/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/23/rupert-murdoch-american-citizen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:17:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been little talk here at ScruHoo about the News Corp. phone hacking scandal, but we should shine a light on it. In brief, let me quote Carl Bernstein from Newsweek: 
&#8220;The facts of the case are astonishing in their scope. Thousands of private phone messages hacked, presumably by people affiliated with the Murdoch-owned News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Systems View of Eternal Vigilance</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/17/a-systems-view-of-eternal-vigilance/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/17/a-systems-view-of-eternal-vigilance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jul 2011 20:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.&#8221; &#8212; Wendell Phillips
NOTE: Comments are off for this post. I don&#8217;t know why, and I can&#8217;t seem to turn them on. Halp! EDIT: Fixed, thanks to Tom Sullivan.
One of the most difficult yet rewarding books I have ever encountered is Gödel, Escher, Bach: A Eternal Golden Braid, by [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gerrymandering Explained</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/12/gerrymandering-explained/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/12/gerrymandering-explained/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nice painless primer on gerrymandering, almost Schoolhouse Rock level but I assure you I&#8217;m not complaining about that.
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		<title>Barack Origami</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/07/barack-origami/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/07/barack-origami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 03:20:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So&#8230; word on the grapevine suggests that President Obama will throw Social Security and Medicare under the bus to appease the GOP hostage-takers, instead of really demanding that the filthy-rich corporate barons pay their way. Rachel Maddow this evening said it&#8217;s known as &#8220;punching the hippie,&#8221; so that Obama can say &#8220;See, we&#8217;re willing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Independence Day</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/04/independence-day-2/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/04/independence-day-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 15:46:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From David Byrne&#8217;s Rei Momo, a great Latin album by a guy born in Scotland and recorded in New York City. It doesn&#8217;t get any more American than that.
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Tread On Me, Either</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/01/14/dont-tread-on-me-either/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/01/14/dont-tread-on-me-either/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 04:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When California Democratic Congressman Bob Filner beat Tea Party/GOP challenger Nick Popaditch by twenty points last November, Popaditch led his minions to terrorize Filner and his supporters. Popaditch, giving off a Bond villain vibe even a child could detect, smirked through it all in a way you might find familiar.

In a functioning democracy, if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes You Just Need Something Beautiful</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/11/30/sometimes-you-just-need-something-beautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/11/30/sometimes-you-just-need-something-beautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like this, for instance. No further comment.
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		<title>Why The GOP Had To Beat Grayson</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/11/18/why-the-gop-had-to-beat-grayson/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/11/18/why-the-gop-had-to-beat-grayson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Democratic Representative Alan Grayson was defeated in the election of a little over two weeks ago, at least partly because the US Chamber of Commerce spent $250,000 to beat him. While right-wing sources were all in a lather about his &#8220;antics&#8221; and suggesting that he was &#8220;medicated&#8220;, the fact of Grayson is that he [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Seven Wise Mechanics And The Saboteur</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/11/01/the-seven-wise-mechanics-and-the-saboteur/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/11/01/the-seven-wise-mechanics-and-the-saboteur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 10:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine you have an auto repair garage into which you have imported seven master mechanics from the far corners of the world. Let&#8217;s suppose one is a native of Detroit, one comes from China, another from Hungary, the others from Yemen, Indonesia, Brazil, and Ethiopia. None can understand a single word any of the others [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Tea Party: It All Makes Sense Now!</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/09/18/the-tea-party-it-all-makes-sense-now/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/09/18/the-tea-party-it-all-makes-sense-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Sep 2010 03:42:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Tom Sullivan&#8217;s fable left you hungry for more, let Taiwan&#8217;s own NMANews clear up the whole Tea Party phenomenon once and for all, using the universal language of mass hallucination.
Warning: put down your drink first.
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		<title>What Welfare Really Buys</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/06/15/what-welfare-really-buys/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/06/15/what-welfare-really-buys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:06:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tombuckner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[shadmarsh made a comment to which I started a reply, but it seemed to me that my reply had enough meat on it to warrant a post. So: 
shad said, (ironically, of course) &#8220;Why do we pay taxes so lazy poor single mothers can collect food stamps and have more poor children?&#8221;

We frequently hear an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>They Didn&#8217;t Listen</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/05/15/they-didnt-listen/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2010/05/15/they-didnt-listen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 04:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He left the world of the living two years ago, but Floyd Red Crow Westerman doesn&#8217;t let that stop him from having something to say about the Gulf oil spill.
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