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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>Bobby Jindal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some quick insights into &#8220;Indian-American&#8221; Bobby Jindal, Rhodes scholar, creationist, governor of Lousiana and possibly your next President:
The Latest Face of Creationism in the Classroom: Scientific American
Professors routinely give advice to students but usually while their charges are still in school. Arthur Landy, a distinguished professor of molecular and cell biology and biochemistry at Brown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/405</link>
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		<title>George Bush and Jon Stewart explain Free Market Capitalism</title>
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		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/403</link>
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		<title>Luck and evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is a simple truth that you won&#8217;t hear from all the high priests and popularisers of science (in this case, biology):
&#8220;If you dissect the past, you can see that luck is a big part of everything in the grand scheme of evolution,&#8221; says lead author Stephen Brusatte, a researcher at the American Museum of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/401</link>
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		<title>From the NYRB: How Muslims Made Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Appiah&#8217;s NYRB article:
How Muslims Made Europe - The New York Review of Books
[...]
Later Christian historians assigned to the Battle of Poitiers an epochal significance. Gibbon remarked that if the Moors had covered again the distance they had traveled from Gibraltar, they could have reached Poland or the Scottish Highlands. Perhaps, he thought, if &#8216;Abd [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/399</link>
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		<title>Monbiot on US politicians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How These Gibbering Numbskulls Came to Dominate Washington &#124; CommonDreams.org
How was it allowed to happen? How did politics in the US come to be dominated by people who make a virtue out of ignorance? Was it charity that has permitted mankind&#8217;s closest living relative to spend two terms as president? How did Sarah Palin, Dan [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/397</link>
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		<title>The Way It Is</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the Obama phenomenon, take it as you wish:

Bruce Hornsby &#124;MTV Music

The Way It Is
Bruce Hornsby &#038; The Range
Standing in line marking time&#8211;
Waiting for the welfare dime
cause they cant buy a job
The man in the silk suit hurries by
As he catches the poor old ladies eyes
Just for fun he says get a job
Thats [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/394</link>
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		<title>McCain on immigration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nobody should mistake McCain for a leftist, but I wonder if Obama would stand up to an angry crowd and defend basic decency (albeit with implicit caveats) as McCain does here, in a rally in Michigan, during his presidential bid:



But I will tell you this, ma&#8217;am. I am not going to call up a soldier [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/392</link>
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		<title>Pankaj Mishra on the Zakaria/Friedman vision of India</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pankaj Mishra writes in The Guardian, about Fareed Zakaria, the latest intellectual empty suit of the talking heads circuit, his latest book, and the vision of India as a neo-liberal capitalist success:
In the past five years bomb attacks claimed by Islamist groups have killed hundreds across the Indian cities of Mumbai, Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Bangalore, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/390</link>
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		<title>Suburban delights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Race and the Suburbs - Campaign Stops Blog - NYTimes.com
Take Long Island, the most famous of post-World War II suburbs. About 70 percent of black elementary and secondary school students attend 10 percent of the school districts — most of which are the poorest and worst performing in one of the nation’s wealthiest suburbs, according [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/388</link>
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		<title>Meanwhile back in the White House&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The NYT documents the final days shennanigans of BushCo:
Editorial - So Little Time, So Much Damage - NYTimes.com
President Bush’s aides have been scrambling to change rules and regulations on the environment, civil liberties and abortion rights, among others — few for the good. Most presidents put on a last-minute policy stamp, but in Mr. Bush’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/386</link>
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