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		<title>Why does anyone listen to this man?</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/why-does-anyone-listen-to-this-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[hugo schwyzer is just awful]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of reasons why I don&#8217;t like Hugo Schwyzer &#8212; he&#8217;s a smug, self-satisfied, horndog who has used his position as a teacher to sleep with students, to mention but a few of the least awful reasons. This article, however, has truly convinced me that he is not only a shitty excuse [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1589&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid article, or stupidest article?</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/stupid-article-or-stupidest-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[idiots]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going to comment extensively on this phenomenally stupid article at the American Stinker, but S,N! already has it covered, and I&#8217;m suffering a cold, so I won&#8217;t. All I can think to add is that, even after years of reading stupid articles by inarticulate morons looking to hit every talking point given by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1585&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Would someone please beat some sense into Andrew Sullivan?</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/23/would-someone-please-beat-some-sense-into-andrew-sullivan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:43:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[andrew sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fucking hell what an idiot]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesus Haploid Christ, Sully: One might ask: which current Republican candidate has not been &#8220;part of coalition who saw bigotry as a potent political force&#8221;? . So don&#8217;t fucking pimp his campaign, you fucking cretin; nobody&#8217;s making you do it, it&#8217;s not a case of promote Republicans or nobody at all. Fuck, man. There comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1583&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-Truth Politics, or How Republicans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:11:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[barack obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Post-Truth Campaign &#8211; NYTimes.com Over all, Mr. Obama’s positions on economic policy resemble those that moderate Republicans used to espouse. Yet Mr. Romney portrays the president as the second coming of Fidel Castro and seems confident that he will pay no price for making stuff up. Welcome to post-truth politics. Why does Mr. Romney [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1579&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You know, I wish people who would opine on the Constitution would actually learn something about it first.  Ditto for people who opine on Atheism and Atheists.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 13:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Founded on Christian principles, huh? Christian principles like separation of church and state and there being no religious tests for office? Yeah, you convinced me. What a powerful argument, etc. And enough of the horseshit about Atheists &#8211; you are not only not qualified to talk about us, you are wrong in every particular, you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1577&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oh, look!  Now he&#8217;s moved to libel!</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/oh-look-now-hes-moved-to-libel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 19:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[butthurt wingnuts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look, kids! Butthurt wingnut Peter DiGuadio (aka the Underground Conservative) has now moved to libelling me, although he&#8217;s apparently too chicken to actually stand by his own insults. It may be that there is the faintest flicker of intelligence in his skull which is telling him that actually out-and-out making that kind of libellous and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1574&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Woohoo!</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/18/woohoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got my Social Security card in the mail yesterday &#8211; dated the 9th December, less than three days after I arrived. I can now work, file tax returns and do all kinds of stuff. Yay me!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1570&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wow</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/wow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 22:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every day, I think to myself, &#8220;This is it. Wingnuts have actually reached the bottom of human intelligence. There is literally nowhere lower for them to go!&#8221; And then I read something like this, and I realise that, actually, there are miles and miles of stupidity for wingnuts to tunnel through yet. I really must [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1566&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The stupidity of wingnuts &#8211; abortion edition</title>
		<link>http://mek1980.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/the-stupidity-of-wingnuts-abortion-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 18:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>That Other Mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The stupidity of wingnuts never ceases to amaze me &#8212; for a group of people who seem so ready to castigate centrists and leftists as emotionally-led, over-empathetic, bleeding hearts, they do love to push some idiotic and lookatthefoetushowcute laws when it comes to abortion, not a single one of which has any foundation but emotion, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1563&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 after suffering cancer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BBC News &#8211; Christopher Hitchens dies at 62 after suffering cancer British-born author, literary critic and journalist Christopher Hitchens has died at the age of 62. He died from pneumonia, a complication of the oesophageal cancer he had , at a Texas hospital. Vanity Fair magazine, which announced his death, said there would &#8220;never be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mek1980.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1908266&amp;post=1560&amp;subd=mek1980&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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