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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
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		<title>Dean Baker&#8217;s free book: The Conservative Nanny State</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/373</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[found via a post to PEN-L by Jim Devine]

The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer - Upload a Document to Scribd
Also available for download.
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		<title>Lewontin on Gould, and the practise of science</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/323</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In a predictably excellent essay reviewing The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould (Ed: Steve Rose) and Punctuated Equilibrium by Gould, Lewontin offers two valuable reminders. One is the essential and important difference between a &#8220;public intellectual&#8221; like Gould who works to disseminate knowledge of his field to the general public and someone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BBC &#124; Guenter Grass was in Waffen-SS</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/151</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 23:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FWIW, from BBC:
Guenter Grass was in Waffen-SS
Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass, author of the great anti-Nazi novel The Tin Drum, has admitted serving in the Waffen-SS.
More:
Walesa attacks Grass for SS role
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		<title>Open Source and the Left</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/100</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a member of a few &#34;left&#34; mailing lists, which are typically dominated by Western Orthodox Leftists (typically Marxists) and even tentative mention of open source, by me (an admitted amateur in left theory), is dismissed as irrelevant to left goals, actions, etc. I never quite understood why not. Open source development seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Apropos to the Kaavya Affair</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/90</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 May 2006 21:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[[A question to English usage types: is &#34;Apropos of&#34; or &#34;Apropos to&#34; the right usage in this title? My initial urge was &#34;of&#34; but on further thought I felt &#34;to&#34; is more apropos!]
I have already posted on the Kaavya Viswanathan affair (plagiarization by the young Indian-American author), though I did not quite articulate what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian lit cuteness wears off</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/73</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Schopenhauer (serious) to the Beatles (trivial), the West has demonstrated a fitful fascination for things Indian. The latest (not counting the return of Yoga) has been Indian English literature &#8212; by which I mean not the modestly illuminating works of someone like R.K. Narayan, bot more the cutesy stuff such as the exotic prose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bicycle is not enough</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/70</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 03:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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&#160;


I was re-reading Philip Kitcher&#8217;s comprehensive critique of SocioBiology over the weekend. Titled &#34;Vaulting Ambition&#34; its a serious and detailed work that&#160; works through the arguments and the models. The book has the convincing mathematics inside; I will stop at posting the more simple and emotional appeal in the introduction:



&#160;A Bicycle Is Not Enough


When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In which Dennett receives a well deserved whupping&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/39</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 18:52:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a certain vulnerability, of over-reaching, in acts of triumphalism that robs the agent of his well-deserved preening (we saw some of that in the fall of Bush (at least in popularity) in short order after proclamations of a &#8216;mandate&#8217;). There was a time when Selfish Gene theorists and other reductionists were somewhat of [...]]]></description>
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