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		<title>Fight Girl Battle World</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2012/01/17/fight-girl-battle-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can&#8217;t wait to see this &#8211; Fight Girl Battle World at NC Stage.

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		<title>Among the Mental Toss Flycoons</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/27/among-the-mental-toss-flycoons/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/27/among-the-mental-toss-flycoons/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<title>You Know It&#8217;s Time For Another Occupy Thread</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/14/you-know-its-time-for-another-occupy-thread/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/12/14/you-know-its-time-for-another-occupy-thread/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 04:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ordinance was advanced at Tuesday&#8217;s City Council meeting that would regulate camping and storage on public-owned property. I moved that the ordinance be referred to Asheville&#8217;s Public Safety Committee for some review, vetting, consideration, etc. That motion passed 5-2 with Councilman Davis and Mayor Bellamy opposed.
Also on Tuesday I became a member of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catch the Spirirt</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/11/21/catch-the-spirirt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lt. John Pike pepper sprays his way through art history. 
(image above courtesy of a friend)
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		<title>Success Is Not An Option</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/21/success-is-not-an-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I, an American small business owner, part of the class that produces the vast majority of real, wealth producing jobs in this country, hereby resolve that I will not hire a single person until this war against business and my country is stopped.
In case you missed it this week, Tea Party Nation included this pledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Rounds Up the Usual Suspects</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/20/the-right-rounds-up-the-usual-suspects/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/10/20/the-right-rounds-up-the-usual-suspects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 11:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Eskow deconstructs polling of Occupy Wall Street done by Fox News&#8217; professional centrist, Douglas Schoen. Discussing his data in the Wall Street Journal, Schoen characterizes the movement as favoring &#8220;radical left-wing policies&#8221; reflecting &#8220;values that are dangerously out of touch with the broad mass of the American people,&#8221; including &#8220;radical redistribution of wealth.&#8221; Those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest Time</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/09/03/harvest-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 15:41:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Harvested just for your Labor Day weekend enjoyment. 
Tim Curry from Saturday Night Live, 1981. Poor video/audio. Great Performance. 

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		<title>Chad Nesbitt Calls For Support</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/24/chad-nesbitt-calls-for-support/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/24/chad-nesbitt-calls-for-support/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 02:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mtn. X:
&#8220;Former Buncombe County Republican Party chair Chad Nesbitt announced today on WWNC radio’s “The Matt Mittan Show” that he’s planning an Aug. 28 rally in downtown Asheville to protest the Aug. 21 GoTopless rally. He said the rally will be held at 2 p.m. in Pack Square Park and invited the public to attend.&#8221;
UPDATE:
You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Colbert Super PAC: Exposing How It’s Done</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/22/colbert-super-pac-exposing-how-it%e2%80%99s-done/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/22/colbert-super-pac-exposing-how-it%e2%80%99s-done/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 11:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When comedian Stephen Colbert petitioned the Federal Election Commission for permission to form Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow (a.k.a., the Colbert Super PAC), people laughed to see Colbert use the campaign finance system to lampoon that very system. “This is 100 percent legal and at least 10 percent ethical,” he said upon receiving FEC [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you should be on the Twitter</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/15/why-you-should-be-on-the-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/15/why-you-should-be-on-the-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Muller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people come to me and they say, &#8220;Hey, but why should I be on the Twitter?&#8221;
Well I tell you. It&#8217;s not because I can make love up to one time a night; it&#8217;s because that&#8217;s where a lot of the local political action is these days.
Nearly all of this year&#8217;s City Council candidates have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Love Lucy</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/06/we-love-lucy/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/06/we-love-lucy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Muller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today would be Lucille Ball&#8217;s 100th Birthday. Seems to me we could all use some more Lucy these days.
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		<title>Take A Bow, Matt Damon</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/02/take-a-bow-matt-damon/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/08/02/take-a-bow-matt-damon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 23:20:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Gawker:
A reporter from libertarian rag Reason interviewed notorious Massachusetts liberal actor Matt Damon at this year&#8217;s Save Our Schools March and she tried to throw some business at him about teacher tenure and Ayn Randy incentive stuff and he wasn&#8217;t having it. 
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		<title>Is FYW the new WTF?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/25/is-fyw-the-new-wtf/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/25/is-fyw-the-new-wtf/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>writ of summons</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a twitstorm arising. People have had enough of the kabuki theater in Washington. The act where despite all the melodrama everyone knows who is going to get screwed in the end. The hell if the so called Grand Bargain (which I hope is truly dead) was anything close to change we can believe in. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Anacreontic Song</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/04/the_anacreontic_song/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/07/04/the_anacreontic_song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Management</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's Note: this entry originally appeared here on 7/4/2007, and was written by one of our former contributors who gave us permission to run it once again. It's one of our favorites.]
(This post has a soundtrack too &#8211; &#8220;Our National Anthem&#8221;, by Negativland, from 1993&#8242;s Free album. Click here to listen or download.
When someone says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government is good?</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/30/government-is-good/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/30/government-is-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nah! Can&#8217;t be. Could it? Douglas J. Amy, Professor of Politics at Mount Holyoke College decided he&#8217;d had enough of the conservative war against &#8220;the goverment,&#8221; you know &#8212; U.S., We the People. Of course, Amy teaches at a liberal arts college. He set up a web site, Government Is Good, to push back. 
&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Support Your Local All Volunteer &#8220;Radio&#8221; Station&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/24/support-your-local-all-volunteer-radio-station/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/24/support-your-local-all-volunteer-radio-station/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shadmarsh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all you greasers and peasers, daddy-o’s &#038; dollies. There’s a joint with a point ready to anoint. This Saturday June 25th, the coolest of the cool will be downtown at Broadways for Asheville Free Media’s Saturday Sock Hop Special. That jukebox will start rocking at 8 o’clock. And its only a mere 5 Washingtons [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netroots 11, Day 2</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/18/netroots-11-day-2/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/18/netroots-11-day-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day started out with a public grilling of White House Communications Director, Dan Pfeiffer. Salon&#8217;s War Room described it this way, quoting Dave Weigel,
&#160;

Pfeiffer was only booed (lightly) once. That was when he was asked why Obama had filled out a survey in 1996 stating his approval of gay marriage, but had moved right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netroots 11, Day 1</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/17/netroots-11-day-1/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/17/netroots-11-day-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATED below.
Reunions Thursday with a lot of familiar faces. More than anything else, this is a community. Besides seeing friends from the northeast and the left coast, Pam Spaulding (Pam&#8217;s House Blend) and several others from North Carolina are here.
Netroots is about networking. Meeting Scott Paul from the Alliance for American Manufacturing at last year&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Memoriam</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/12/in-memoriam/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/06/12/in-memoriam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jun 2011 16:56:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Management</dc:creator>
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		<title>Grand Rapids Lip Dub</title>
		<link>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/05/28/grand-rapids-lip-dub/</link>
		<comments>http://scrutinyhooligans.us/2011/05/28/grand-rapids-lip-dub/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 May 2011 12:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Sullivan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From ConnectMidMichigan.com:
After Newsweek named Grand Rapids one of America&#8217;s &#8220;Dying Cities,&#8221; the community decided to band together to prove that they are very much alive.
Thousands of men, women, and children lined the streets to create a video, showing the sights and sounds of Grand Rapids, all to the tune of Don Mclean&#8217;s &#8220;American Pie.&#8221;
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