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	<title>Broken Spines &#187; Fight Club</title>
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		<title>Wishing on a Tsar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:37:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fight Club&#8217;s upcoming bout is on &#8220;Time for a Model Change&#8221; by Graeme Maxton and John Wormald, two car industry veterans and writers for the Economist.  So, I thought it was fitting that this morning&#8217;s Business View in the Economist was an entertaining review of current status of Detroit bail out.
The automakers are arguing that unlike [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=439&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 10 Non-Fiction in 2008</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time Magazine’s Top Ten Non-Fiction Books of 2008:

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins (The gaping wounds of Iraq and Afghanistan have produced a torrent of words, but no single volume so far has the precision and power of The Forever War)
The Thief at the End of the World by Joe Jackson (smuggling rubber tree seeds [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=437&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Redrawing the Map of the Middle East</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/redrawing-the-map-of-the-middle-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 16:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to believe that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (or Iraq and Afganistan for that matter) seems minor now compared to the tinder box of India and Pakistan relations.  But, really it&#8217;s the same core issues playing out on a larger scale.   In a Machiavellian master stroke Lashkar-e-Taiba, the extremist group behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=432&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nodal Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:49:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since this is a book Fight Club, and Rich H. can&#8217;t seem to make a decision, I&#8217;ll throw out another recommendation: Promised Land: Thirteen Books That Changed America by Jay Parini.  This book is right in our wheelhouse.  The book is not about great literature &#8211; so, you fictionophobes need not worry about Moby Dick and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=416&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fight Night</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/fight-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re stepping in the ring to review Andrew Bacevich&#8217;s &#8220;The Limits of Power&#8221; a quick but damning review of American policy making and &#8220;generalship&#8221; in the wars since the end of the Cold War.  But, I&#8217;ll leave the review to the host, Bill B.
I wanted to plant some seeds as to which spine we would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=396&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fight Club Show Off</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/fight-club-show-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt H. consider yourself on notice.

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		<title>Get Your Genuine Fight Club Mug</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/get-your-genuine-fight-club-mug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a limited time only, in partnership with the creative (if violent) people at Thabto, we bring you the Fight Club mug.
Don&#8217;t be a MUG! Look like a real man when you&#8217;re drinkin&#8217; your brew! 
Inspired by the word ‘MUG!’ itself, which is often used in British slang, this large mug with a knuckle duster handle will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=157&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hmmm&#8230; Book Club meet ups?  I likey!</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/hmmm-book-club-meet-ups-i-likey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Dave K. mentioned that there were other groups look to emulate the origional fightclub I thought I would dig a little further into how many other &#8220;guy book clubs&#8221; there were out there.  One in particular caught my attention!
One such group in S.F. actually had a book club meet up with an &#8220;all girls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=120&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;No one has ever thrown down here&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/no-one-has-ever-thrown-down-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s another group of beer drinkers and book readers out there.  According to this morning&#8217;s Strib, Books and Bars (or B&#38;B as they refer to themselves) meets at Bryant Lake Bowl on a monthly basis to discuss books.  But, unlike Fight Club, they never throw down &#8211; pussies.  Besides what kind of sissy book club calls [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=88&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Readers come to see a fight</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2007/09/13/readers-come-to-see-a-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 20:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
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Do I see a trend?  Is a crowd forming around our humble Broken Spines?  Damn right, there&#8217;s a fight going on and everyone loves a good fight.  Epithets like &#8220;heavy contemplator&#8221; and &#8220;simple one&#8221; are being thrown about like upper cuts and jabs.  No semantic nuance is too small for these guys &#8211; they&#8217;ve been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=86&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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