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		<title>Take A Chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Manifest Destiny</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:49:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his column yesterday, David Brooks wrote about America&#8217;s boundless verve and optimism. He wrote, &#8220;this eschatological faith in the future has motivated generations of Americans&#8230;to start up companies with an exaggerated sense of their chances of success. The faith is the molten core of the country’s dynamism.&#8221; But he goes on to write that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=862&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reluctance by Robert Frost</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Robert Frost]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Out through the fields and the woods
    And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
    And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
    And lo, it is ended.
The leaves are all dead on the ground,
    Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=860&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Third Man&#8230; neurological defect or a glitch in The Matrix?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-third-man-neurological-defect-or-a-glitch-in-the-matrix/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:55:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt H.</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Third Man]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[With only 22 hours to spare I just finished our next tome on the existence of the Third Man. Author John Geiger distills the phenomenon of sensing the presence of another being with us during times of stress or panic as not a guardian angel or religious savior but as a neurological defect that enables [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=854&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Atlas Engaged</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Heller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ayn Rand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I submit for Fight Club&#8217;s consideration Anne Heller&#8217;s timely biography: Ayn Rand and the World She Made. Because, if there was ever a counterpoint for Rand&#8217;s unfettered capitalism (and by extension Alan Greenspan&#8217;s) it would seem to be our near brush with financial collapse. But, apparently the tea parties and Glenn Becks of the world [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=845&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schwarzenegger Veto Message</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnold Schwarzenegger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Veto Message]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Although Broken Spines is a family blog, I couldn&#8217;t resist a post on the Governator&#8217;s recent veto message to the California Assembly. All you have to do is read the first letter of each sentence vertically &#8211; you get the message.

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		<title>Lisbeth Salander</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/lisbeth-salander/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handelshögskolan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisbeth Salander]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stieg Larsson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stockholm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sweden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Girl Who Played With Fire]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just friended Lisbeth Salander on Facebook. Normally, this would not be noteworthy, other than the fact that Lisbeth is the fictional heroine of Stieg Larsson&#8217;s detective series The Girl With the Dragon Tatoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire and the forthcoming Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#8217;s Nest. I just finished the second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=838&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sell the Vatican, Feed the World</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/sell-the-vatican-feed-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:32:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sarah Silverman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Vatican]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[World hunger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Silverman is awesome. Through her heretical, irreverent, and biting wit, she actually makes a good point.

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		<title>Audience Participation</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/audience-participation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Decemberists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t get me wrong. I like the Decemberists as much as the next guy. Well, actually not as much as the guy next to me at their show in Minneapolis on Friday. Clearly he was a big fan; he knew the words to every song&#8230;and sang them&#8230;loudly. As if this weren&#8217;t enough to show his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=831&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Referendum on the Second City?</title>
		<link>http://brokenspines.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/referendum-on-the-second-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:31:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bobbyjones</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mike B.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Olympics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rio de Janeiro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After having just read Devil in the White City, about Chicago hosting the World&#8217;s Fair in 1893, it is interesting to see the reactions to losing their bid for the Olympics in 2016 (the modern equivalent of a World&#8217;s Fair). Even President Obama and Oprah couldn&#8217;t convince the IOC to bring the Olympic to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=brokenspines.wordpress.com&blog=1078006&post=827&subd=brokenspines&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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