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	<title>Plato's Beard &#187; Silliness</title>
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	<description>whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must make random noises</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>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:01:46 +0000</pubDate>
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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>OMG, Obama shook hands with a Bobby or two!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/326</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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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>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>
		
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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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		<title>Obama: the spoiler of 2008?</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/300</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/300#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 2000, when we were still belabouring under the impression that democracy is an open sport, those of us who supported Ralph Nader were castigated for promoting a &#8220;spoiler&#8221; candidate. This artful term summarised the idea that a few deluded idealists (that would be us) were not just throwing away votes but worse helping [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Consolation in a downsourced world</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/275</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/275#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 06:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman writes in his blog that even that old conservative hope that lowered taxes increase government revenues and decrease deficit is not playing out well, now that corporate profits are on the downslide. But there is hope. For one thing there is the McDonald&#8217;s Dollar Millionaire effort (perhaps they mean the Canadian Dollar, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace prevails</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/249</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/249#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:38:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier post I wrote:
A bunch of people in Colorado want their neighbour to take down a Christmas peace sign wreath&#8230;
Fortunately, it turns out that the &#8220;bunch&#8221; is mostly the [now ex] board members of the housing association. New York Times has more:
Last week, a couple were threatened with fines of $25 a day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Peace: a divisive idea</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/243</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/243#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 04:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A bunch of people in Colorado want their neighbour to take down a Christmas peace sign wreath, because &#8212; no I am not making this up &#8212; it is considered to be &#8220;divisive&#8221; i.e., it is anti-war. So, there you have it: war is what brings us together and peace is what divides us.
ABC News: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s the reality, stupid!</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/232</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/232#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Elections]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of their &#8220;thumping&#8221;, GOP and conservative talking heads, apart from wringing hands and pointing fingers, have been outdoing each other on the preposterous nature of their explanations. For instance, there was Michael Savage on talk radio with the mind-numbing analysis that George Bush, the liberal, intentionally threw the GOP under the bus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The meaning of &#8216;freedom&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/228</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/228#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 04:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have been beset by deep philosophical misgivings on the meaning of the abstract concept that we label &#8216;freedom&#8217;, a piece of good news for you. A definition has been found! Here is Andrew Sullivan on PBS&#8217; NOW:
I believe in a free country people can spend money as they want on advancing their own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pay to play</title>
		<link>http://platosbeard.org/archives/212</link>
		<comments>http://platosbeard.org/archives/212#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Oct 2006 18:12:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ravi</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Silliness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You cannot make this shit up:


BBC &#124; China&#8217;s full-time computer gamers

China is exploiting a new industry - and it exists in the shadowy world of fantasy monsters and virtual treasure.
This is the online computer game economy where people assume characters and play to win virtual &#8216;gold&#8217; which they can then spend in their game.
But to [...]]]></description>
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