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	<title>The Reality-Based Community &#187; Handbasket, world going to hell in</title>
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		<title>Professor who shut student&#8217;s laptop acquitted, fired.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/teaching/professor-who-shut-students-laptop-acquitted-fired/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/teaching/professor-who-shut-students-laptop-acquitted-fired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 18:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Professor who closed the laptop of a student surfing the web during class acquitted of battery--and fired.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Maybe they are all from Chelm</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/maybe-they-are-all-from-chelm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/maybe-they-are-all-from-chelm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 07:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=22003</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now would be a good time to have a charitable thought for pundits, bloggers, opinion columnists &#8211; yes, and policy professors &#8211; for whom the last month has been incredibly challenging, harder than any time in the last decade. When the world behaves like a parody of grownup affairs, and people with positional authority are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>On Wisconsin!</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/on-wisconsin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/08/politics-and-leadership/on-wisconsin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 18:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Campaigns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Constitutional politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election reform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republican Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Supreme Court]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unions and organizing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vote Casting and Counting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=21953</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday I&#8217;ll drive from Chicago up to Sauk City, Wisconsin, to do voter protection, that is, pollwatching while holding a law degree.  Wisconsin historically has offered exceptionally inclusive voter access, including in-precinct same-day registration.  But one of the many delightful consequences of the Republican takeover of the state is a photo-i.d. law which isn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blackberry Means Never Fully Being Where You Are</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/technology-and-society/blackberry-means-never-fully-being-where-you-are/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/06/technology-and-society/blackberry-means-never-fully-being-where-you-are/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 02:18:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology and Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=20438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The APA Monitor has an interview with Dr. Sherry Turkle who has documented how iphones, blackberries and other mobile devices have reduced the amount of attention users pay to people who are physically present. I love the technology as much as the next person, but there is something sad in reading that fathers are emailing [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are Hospital Readmissions Really a Bad Thing?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/are-hospital-readmissions-really-a-bad-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/05/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/are-hospital-readmissions-really-a-bad-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 13:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health and Medicine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19306</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Consider four psychiatric patients, all discharged from an inpatient unit on the same day following stabilization of an acute psychotic episode. A week later, the following events takes place: Arnold&#8217;s symptoms return and in despair he commits suicide. Barbara&#8217;s symptoms return and she goes on a cocaine binge, fueling her aggressive tendencies to the point [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why I Could Never Be An Entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/popular-culture/why-i-could-never-be-an-entrepreneur/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/popular-culture/why-i-could-never-be-an-entrepreneur/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commerce and its discontents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Popular Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strange world]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=19029</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Saturday Night Live sketch from the late 1970&#8242;s featured a store that only sold Scotch tape.  Not tape &#8212; only Scotch tape.  Then, when the economy went bad, the sketch said that the store did well because everyone needed Scotch tape for their &#8220;Going Out Of Business&#8221; signs. It was a pretty funny sketch; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Meat Monster Hits Tokyo</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/the-meat-monster-hits-tokyo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/the-meat-monster-hits-tokyo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh.  My.  God.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Play for its Own Sake</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/play-for-its-own-sake/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/play-for-its-own-sake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:51:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I greatly admire the parenting of some friends of ours who live in Palo Alto, land of compulsive overachievment. After school, the other parents in their neighborhood chaffeur their kids to Hebrew lessons, dance classes, debate societies, baseball coaching (not Little League mind you, but private instructors in hitting, fielding etc.) and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unbelievable.</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/teaching/unbelievable-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/04/teaching/unbelievable-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Sabl</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teaching]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=18656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Student refuses to stop surfing the web during class. Professor shuts her laptop.  Result: professor sued, arrested, suspended.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Will We Renew the Nation&#8217;s Crown Lease?</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/will-we-renew-the-nations-crown-lease/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/will-we-renew-the-nations-crown-lease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 14:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=17477</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week in London, I ran into an acquaintance who kindly invited me to share a bottle of claret with him and a friend of his. After the bottle was drained and our little group was about to disband, the friend mentioned he was off to the Reform Club and asked if I would like [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Glenn Beck, minion of the great conspiracy</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/secrecy-in-government/glenn-beck-minion-of-the-great-conspiracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/02/secrecy-in-government/glenn-beck-minion-of-the-great-conspiracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 05:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[National Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Secrecy in government]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16939</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenn Beck has revealed himself, finally, as a covert agent of the communist/socialist left-Islamic-fanatic-Code Pink-Obama-fluoridation-currency-abasing-job-killing conspiracy.  While ill-informed and unqualified naïfs like Jon Stewart and Rachel Maddow give him the cover of ridicule, Beck advances his masters&#8217; designs  by  describing just enough of the plotters&#8217; workings (and for credibility, sticking assiduously to facts) to conceal [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the DMV Undermines Democracy, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/public-management/how-the-dmv-undermines-democracy-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2011/01/public-management/how-the-dmv-undermines-democracy-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 23:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=16192</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My late August rant about my terrible experiences at the Virginia and California Department of Motor Vehicles generated comments from RBC readers, from Mark, as well as from Kevin Drum, Matthew Yglesias and their flocks. Some resonated with my trauma; others defended the high quality of DMVs. In light of all the comments here and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>We Are All Kissinger Now</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/international-affairs/africa/we-are-all-kissinger-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/12/international-affairs/africa/we-are-all-kissinger-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=15998</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have met Dr. Kissinger, and he is us.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Gold bug</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/watching-conservatives/gold-bug/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/watching-conservatives/gold-bug/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 05:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Wimberley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Diplomacy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Macroeconomic Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Robert Zoellic goes gold bug, and the strange US lock on the World Bank presidency.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Funny, It Doesn&#8217;t Look Bluish</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/california-politics/funny-it-doesnt-look-bluish/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/11/california-politics/funny-it-doesnt-look-bluish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14856</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The initial results in California last night make my state seem like a sane drop of blue in the country.  Jerry Brown won for Governor; Barbara Boxer was re-elected; and Proposition 23, which would have reversed the state&#8217;s landmark climate change law, was resoundingly defeated.  Voters also approved Proposition 25, which allows the state budget [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>New Jersey</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/politics-and-leadership/new-jersey/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/10/politics-and-leadership/new-jersey/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics and Leadership]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=14295</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey is a living embodiment of why political boundaries should never be drawn along rivers, and always along ridgelines.  Nine million people live in two enormous clusters attached economically and culturally, but not politically, to the cities of New York and Philadelphia across the major regional rivers. These clusters anchor the ends of an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>How the DMV Undermines Democracy</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/public-management/how-the-dmv-undermines-democracy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/public-management/how-the-dmv-undermines-democracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Keith Humphreys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Public management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=13025</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“She was a fat, resentful woman. The kind who is always behind the counter at the DMV when you need to renew your registration” &#8211;P.J. O’Rourke, A Parliament of Whores “There are days when we don’t let the line move at all” &#8211;Patty and Selma, The Simpsons I generally ignored the protestors with the “Obama-is-a-Radical-Muslim-with-a-crazy-Baptist-preacher-in-Chicago” [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>50</slash:comments>
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		<title>Blind and deaf in the face of spreading evil</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/woolgathering/blind-and-deaf-in-the-face-of-spreading-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/08/woolgathering/blind-and-deaf-in-the-face-of-spreading-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay marriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Struggle Between Good and Evil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Woolgathering]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12567</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Occasionally my training as an engineer prompts me to ask, &#8220;why aren&#8217;t conservation laws more useful in social science?&#8221;  In economics, everything is held together with bungee cords (which is OK, all physical mechanisms are more or less elastic) but the quantities of everything, including money, seem to be spongy as well. Analysis of gay [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eating the seed corn</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/wayward-press/eating-the-seed-corn/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/07/wayward-press/eating-the-seed-corn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Journalism (Online and Otherwise)]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayward press]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=12387</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spoiler alert: if this post doesn&#8217;t spoil your week, or worse, you and I don&#8217;t share the same reality. What makes human life worth living? Content, obviously: news, art, music, conversation &#8211; social intercourse in all media.  What makes it possible?  Food and drink, broadly defined: fresh water and all the plant and animal products [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Health care reform politics and Kristallnacht 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/watching-conservatives/health-care-reform-politics-and-kristallnacht-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/03/watching-conservatives/health-care-reform-politics-and-kristallnacht-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 16:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kelly Kleiman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conservatism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Germany]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lying in politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Watching Conservatives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Affordable Care Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boehner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cantor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Judaism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kristallnacht]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tea Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vandalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There was a joke that used to go around about a golf game involving entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr.  Another player asked his handicap, and Davis replied &#8220;I&#8217;m a Jewish black man with one eye; how much more handicap do I need?&#8221; This came to mind when I read the New York Times story about President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All You Need to Know About the Middle East &#8220;Peace Process&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/02/international-affairs/israel/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-middle-east-peace-process/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2010/02/international-affairs/israel/all-you-need-to-know-about-the-middle-east-peace-process/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Zionists need not worry: they'll get their way in about 40 years.]]></description>
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		<title>More notes from the California higher education battlefield</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/california-politics/8652/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/california-politics/8652/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 07:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight was the big Cal teach-in before tomorrow's day of walkout/protest/demonstration scheduled for all University of California campuses....Back in the day, a teach-in was teaching: faculty who knew something about an issue tried to explain it, sometimes just propagandizing but preferably illuminating complications and subtleties of the state of affairs (Vietnam War, racial injustice, etc.) triggering the state of protest. Tonight, not so much; the six speakers were earnest and lively, but the critical thinking of which we're supposed to be a veritable factory had mostly left the building.]]></description>
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		<title>Field notes from a failing state</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/uncategorized/field-notes-from-a-failing-state/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/09/uncategorized/field-notes-from-a-failing-state/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 20:11:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[California Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Education policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.samefacts.com/?p=8619</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday evening I attended a &#8220;teach-in&#8221; sponsored by the local chapter of student &#8220;government&#8221; at Berkeley, the Senate of Associated Students of the University of California.  A half-dozen faculty (not me) offered ten-minute perspectives on current events, which are heading to a university-wide walkout on Sept. 24; Friday the Senate voted unanimously to support [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Fire This Time</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/climate-change/the-fire-this-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/08/climate-change/the-fire-this-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonathan Zasloff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Disasters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy and Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, southern California is prey to wildfires, an environmental hazard that has become commonplace as the earth has heated up.  But I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>A gentleman, and three other guys</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/wayward-press/a-gentleman-and-three-other-guys/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2009/04/wayward-press/a-gentleman-and-three-other-guys/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 03:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wayward press]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our coblogger Bob Frank was interviewed&#8230;that&#8217;s not exactly the word I want here&#8230;on Fox Business News by a blowhard named Stuart Varney about his interesting ideas that luck matters in life in addition to brains, hard work, and the other Horatio Alger stuff (Alger&#8217;s heroes always had an amazing and consequential stroke of luck along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catastrophe</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/catastrophe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/12/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/catastrophe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Dec 2008 15:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to post on the continuing collapse of newspapers, a cloud way closer than the horizon and plenty bigger than a man&#8217;s or even Kong&#8217;s hand, but this piece, alerting us to something way scarier than an asteroid on a collision course, puts today&#8217;s bad news, and smidgens of good news, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shop till you drop somebody</title>
		<link>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/11/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/shop-till-you-drop-somebody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.samefacts.com/2008/11/handbasket-world-going-to-hell-in/shop-till-you-drop-somebody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:23:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael O'Hare</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Handbasket, world going to hell in]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People are stepping up, thank the lord; we may be on our way out of the economic meltdown. On Long Island, a crowd of patriots pushed down the doors of a WalMart and trampled to death a wretch trying to hold them back until opening time (probably an Al Qaeda operative programmed to sabotage our [...]]]></description>
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