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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Misc</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Way It Is</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/394</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>

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		<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>
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		<title>Dean Baker&#8217;s free book: The Conservative Nanny State</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/373</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/373#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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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>The Broken Windows theory of Civilisation!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/349</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/349#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Pinker while pimping his book in Seed Magazine throws in this insight:
Seed: Steven Pinker on Swearing and Violence
Contrary to the popular belief that we are living in horrifically violent times, rates of homicide in the West have plummeted ten- to a hundredfold over the centuries. The sociologist Norbert Elias noted that this pacification process, correlated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NYT ponders girls&#8217; bodies in the service of nationalism</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/345</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/345#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Doing their best to propagate the loutish Bela Karolyi&#8217;s rants about the age of female Chinese gymnasts, the NYT throws out this excellent bit of analysis:
Chinese Grab Gold in Gymnastics; U.S. Is Second - NYT
The Chinese gymnasts lack curves, have an average height of 4 feet 9 inches and weigh an average of 77 pounds. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rage is all the rage</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/343</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/343#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the ATP web site, a couple of images.


I guess the hope is to turn the above, into the below:

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		<title>Ranger&#8217;s Blog: BBC vs National Geographic</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/331</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/331#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Misc]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ranger&#8217;s blog and its readers (do read the comments section of the post) illustrate the critical different between an informative and interesting nature program vs what is on offer from National Geographic (or for that matter, Discovery Channel), including video samples. See: The Ranger&#8217;s Blog - Post details: Spider vs. Bee&#8230; BBC vs. National [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A review of Braveheart (the film)</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/329</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/329#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpts:
Braveheart: dancing peasants, gleaming teeth and a cameo from Fabio &#124; Film &#124; guardian.co.uk
Edward I expresses a desire to enforce high taxes on the rich. Apparently, in Gibson&#8217;s world, this makes him evil. In case you need even more evidence, on a whim he reinstates ius primae noctis, allowing English nobles to interrupt Scottish weddings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OMG, Obama shook hands with a Bobby or two!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/326</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/326#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We are used to rot on this side of the pond, where the choice is between an outright organ of a political party or celebrity claptrap that passes for journalism. But the updated version of &#8220;on the Internet nobody knows you are a dog&#8220;, it seems, is that on a blog nobody knows you are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lewontin on Gould, and the practise of science</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/323</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/323#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

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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>Blowhards of the world unite</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/309</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/309#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 02:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Arrogance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Biology]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[East vs West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting phenomenon to be seen these days, every time there is some controversy. It is quickly morphed into a controversy about the response to the original one! That happened with the Muhammad cartoon issue, where the publication of some silly cartoons aimed at infuriating Muslims (the same populations that are oppressed by [...]]]></description>
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