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		<title>The problems of being a maverick</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/the-problems-of-being-a-maverick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of McCain and lobbyists &#8230; oh, wait.
Anyway:
As chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, John McCain began hearings that helped bring down Jack Abramoff, the disgraced lobbyist who was the central figure in a political scandal that landed Mr. Abramoff in jail.
 Now, as Mr. McCain releases the names of hundreds of &#8220;bundlers&#8221; — [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 22, 2008</media:title>
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		<title>WALL•E redux (Mudede philosophizes)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a note related to my recent post considering the accusations of fatism in Pixar&#8217;s WALL•E.  Over at Slog, Charles Mudede offers a philosophical analysis of the film:
 Point One:
In WALL•E, human evolution from normal weight to overweight is concomitant with their evolution from animal &#8230;
&#8230; to animation.
The transformation, which is pictured on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Headline of the Day</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/headline-of-the-day-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Journalist Tracks Rumors Of Penis Thievery&#8221;  (NPR)
&#8220;I had come all the way from America for this and did not know how many chances I would get to speak to someone whose penis had actually been stolen,&#8221; writes journalist Frank Bures in his recent Harper&#8217;s article, &#8220;A Mind Dismembered: In Search Of The Magical Penis [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In defense of WALL•E</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2008/07/12/in-defense-of-wall%e2%80%a2e/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 11:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>B. D.</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this is a bit much.  Let us start with a simple proposition:

Is there only one way to view art?

If we want to complicate that question, we might ask whether that one perspective properly considers all potential factors, and whether it should.
The current controversy surrounds Pixar&#8217;s latest release, Wall•E, a dazzling and charming shoe-in [...]]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Pixar's WALL•E has received criticism for its treatment of obesity.</media:title>
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		<title>Money talks for Anheuser-Busch investors?</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/money-talks-for-anheuser-busch-investors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 23:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Money talks.  And on the far coast of these United States, I can almost be sympathetic.
Andrew Ross Sorkin and Michael J. de La Merced bring us the latest on InBev&#8217;s bid for Anheuser-Busch:
In a reversal of its previous hostility to the idea, Anheuser-Busch is in active talks to sell itself to the Belgian brewer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quote of the Week — Obama on the economy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama on remarks by former Texas Senator Phil Gramm that the nation&#8217;s economic woes are a &#8220;mental recession&#8221; and that Americans are &#8220;a nation of whiners&#8221;:
&#8220;This comes after Senator McCain recently admitted his energy proposal for the gas-tax holiday will have mainly &#8216;psychological benefits&#8217; &#8230;. Now I want all of you to know that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some ado about &#8230; well, nothing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something about this Danziger cartoon pinged my liberal radar, and when I asked some associates about it, one of them immediately picked up on the point.  But I decided to leave it alone in that sense.  After all, Danziger is a bright mind and a gifted cartoonist.
Nonetheless, a question still nags at me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cow farts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:06:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Yes, that is exactly what it looks like.  Scientists in Argentina—one of the world&#8217;s leading producers of beef—are studying bovine flatulence as part of that nation&#8217;s effort to combat global warming.  According to Rupert Neate, for the Telegraph,
 
The Argentine researchers discovered methane from cows accounts for more than 30 per cent of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And we thought the press was bad in America</title>
		<link>http://bdhilling.wordpress.com/2008/07/09/and-we-thought-the-press-was-bad-in-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And to think that we Americans complain about our press.
Sure, we have impotent anchors like Brian Williams, and tarted up &#8220;CNN babes&#8221;.  And, of course, there is the ever-outrageous FOX News, but whether we yell and scream about corporate—or &#8220;establishment&#8221;—media, the liberal press conspiracy, or even Bush-era propaganda programs, I confess I&#8217;m stuck for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flashback: Random notes - July 1, 2006</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 05:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(An old e-mail I had sent to myself, which is strange since I don&#8217;t often do this sort of diary or journal writing.)
Random notes:
Rap outfit Cancer Rising doesn&#8217;t have much of a web presence.
Turns out one of my favorite songs by the Rheostatics (&#8221;One More Colour&#8221;) is actually a Jane Siberry song; imagine how surprised [...]]]></description>
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