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		<title>Neo-Luddism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:57:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve rather considered myself a fervent traditionalist, for somebody who was born into the computer age, despite the glow of electronic devices pretty much dominating my time: I work IT. I&#8217;m a consummate forum troll. I&#8217;m rarely more than two hours away from a computer if I&#8217;m awake.
But I only just now got a cell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Neo-Suburbia</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:40:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joel Kotkin of Foreign Policy waxes on about how suburbs, not cities, are the answer, because population alone doesn&#8217;t make a city World Class, especially when it&#8217;s marred with a complete lack of infrastructure and capital.
In short, he critiques the developing world&#8217;s contribution to urbanization by creating the world&#8217;s largest slums to date.
However, he&#8217;s only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Good Deed Goes Unpunished</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kane & Lynch 2]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The problem with war films and mob films is that their message &#8211; &#8220;this is hell&#8221; and &#8220;these are bad men,&#8221; respectively &#8211; is undermined by the glamor of the medium. In order to make them interesting, they&#8217;re made likable, and suddenly you have mobsters not only enjoying Goodfellas but emulating it, and soldiers pumping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hostages</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re all hostages.
Corporate profits are back to normal!
Hiring isn&#8217;t.
And clearly it will never be.
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		<title>Lemme Break It Down For You,</title>
		<link>http://www.bigsmokestreetcorner.com/?p=1161</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Ledbetter: Your article on the economic woes of this country and the economists you quote completely miss the point.
Economists LOVE to make the argument that Americans must retool for a different marketplace because it means that all the blame for the anemic economy can be placed squarely on the shoulders of the working man: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom of Religion</title>
		<link>http://www.bigsmokestreetcorner.com/?p=1159</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 19:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[is not dictated by popular vote.
The strongest point of our democracy is not that it reflects the will of the majority, but that it protects the rights of the minority. We are not governed by mob rule.
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		<title>Another Generational Head-Scratcher</title>
		<link>http://www.bigsmokestreetcorner.com/?p=1154</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Henig wrote a long piece in the NYTimes Magazine about why today&#8217;s 20-somethings have yet to reach what she describes as &#8220;adulthood,&#8221; in words that evoke a similar rant not too long ago.
Again, I note that she spent far more time describing what people wear than the world they inherit: Plenty of time with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Capitalism, in a nutshell</title>
		<link>http://www.bigsmokestreetcorner.com/?p=1152</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:19:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr Pepper Snapple Group posted record profits from its Motts processing plant in Rochester, NY. At the same time it&#8217;s seeking to cut wages and benefits from its employees, citing, among other things, that the job market is depressed, that other blue-collar employees are paid less, and because,
&#8220;as a public company, Dr Pepper Snapple Group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The real job figures</title>
		<link>http://www.bigsmokestreetcorner.com/?p=1148</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:11:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Herbert points out the distressing and depressing truth on labor statistics (we&#8217;re closing in on 11% unemployed if we count those who, by dint of &#8220;no longer actively searching&#8221; or falling off the unemployment rolls, are no longer counted as part of the labor force) and the lack of decisive action by the Democrats [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listen to Yourselves</title>
		<link>http://www.bigsmokestreetcorner.com/?p=1142</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rott635</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times did an editorial essentially thanking city officials for unanimously voting to allow a mosque and Islamic community center to be built two blocks from the WTC site, for having done so they have upheld the highest aspirations and values of this country.
That&#8217;s all well and good, but what gets me is [...]]]></description>
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