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	<title>The Compulsive Explainer</title>
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	<description>My thoughts on how the world works</description>
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		<title>The Situation Cannot be Fixed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:23:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are still obsessed with recovery, with fixing things. But I think there comes a time when we have to realize that the situation cannot be fixed. The only solution is a personal one: we have to live in a world that we, and people like us, cannot fix.
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		<title>Writing Tools for People Who Don&#8217;t Like to Write</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social theory]]></category>

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		<title>America in the Fifties</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:28:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<title>Engineers are More Likely to be Terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:10:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>

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		<title>The Clockwork Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Technology]]></category>

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		<title>Bagram torture and prisoner abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:05:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<title>The Iranian Revolution as a Revolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>

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		<title>Judging on Process and Judging on Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

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		<title>Bad Managers and Passive Employees are Locked in a Death Spiral</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social theory]]></category>

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		<title>Qi Zhang&#8217;s electrifying organ performance</title>
		<link>http://halsmith.info/wordpress/?p=2518</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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