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		<title>Scientists are from Mars, the public is from Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Geophysical Union blog has a link up to a very interesting table, and I feel strongly enough about this topic that I want to share it with you. It’s a list of words scientists use when writing or otherwise communicating science, what the...]]></description>
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		<title>Government logo fail of the day</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2011/08/government-logo-fail-of-the-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2011 17:35:01 +0000</pubDate>
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This is like an Onion parody on steroids. Only it’s 100 percent real.
Inspired by President Obama’s “Sputnik moment” speech back in January, the government-sponsored Smithsonian Institute has launched a new blog called “Department of Innovat...]]></description>
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		<title>Inbox Influence shows political contributions by the people in your email</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While browser plugins like Rapportive tell you the social networks that people in your email belong to, Inbox Influence, from the Sunlight Foundation, uses their data from Influence Explorer, Transparency Data, and Party Time to show a different type o...]]></description>
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		<title>What Obama Isn’t Saying Now</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2011/03/what-obama-isn%e2%80%99t-saying-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:18:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bshoemate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war….A war
based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics. Now let me be clear –
I suffer no illusions about Muammar Gaddafi . He is a brutal man….He’s a b...]]></description>
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		<title>The richness of nothingness</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2010/12/the-richness-of-nothingness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Dec 2010 13:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bshoemate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statisticians investigate data, and it may seem like missing data should be ignored since no data means no analysis, right? Well, in practice, it turns out that the knowledge that data is missing is very powerful, and statisticians are, in fact, always...]]></description>
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		<title>Palin: America&#8217;s &#8220;gotta stand with our North Korean allies&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 01:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bshoemate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Transcript snip from Glenn Beck's radio show: 
CO-HOST: How would you handle a situation like the one that just developed in North Korea? 
PALIN: But obviously, we&#039;ve got to stand with our North Korean allies. We&#039;re bound to by treaty— CO-HOS...]]></description>
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		<title>Republicans Are Really Weird, Chapter CCVII</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2010/11/republicans-are-really-weird-chapter-ccvii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bshoemate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Armbruster:


  In 2008, Bush Said He ‘Probably Won’t Vote For’ McCain: With stories about President Bush’s new memoir dominating the headlines this week, Financial Times Westminster correspondent Alex Barker reports on his “favourite Bus...]]></description>
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		<title>Privatized prisons in Arizona helped draft laws to send people to prison</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2010/10/privatized-prisons-in-arizona-helped-draft-laws-to-send-people-to-prison/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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The story of industries paying lobbyists to influence legislation that benefits their business is nothing new—but what about when that industry is a privately-owned and operated prison system? 
NPR reports that Arizona Senate Bill 1070 (PDF), the i...]]></description>
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		<title>Chamomile Tea Party Posters</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2010/07/chamomile-tea-party-posters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:23:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bshoemate</dc:creator>
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Boing Boing reader Jeff says, "I'm so sick of the rancor and party politics in Washington, so I created a series of posters under the moniker of the 'Chamomile Tea Party,' advocating for putting the country first and parties last. The posters are base...]]></description>
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		<title>Is Manufacturing the Answer to America&#8217;s Economic Crisis?</title>
		<link>http://reader.benshoemate.com/2010/07/is-manufacturing-the-answer-to-americas-economic-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 09:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bshoemate</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this era of global economic downturn, two countries, Germany and China, aren’t doing too shabbily. Now they can’t be further apart: Germany is a stable democracy with a mature economy and China is an authoritarian government with a nascent yet r...]]></description>
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