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		<title>What&#8217;s Interesting about the US Budget Battle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the Republicans were swept into office in 2010, one of the things they promised to do was rein in spending and balance the budget. To balance a budget&#8211;yours, mine, the local Elks Association&#8211;you must either cut spending or raise income (or some combination of the two). For the federal budget, raising income is dead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Refudiate: Neologism or Malaprop?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;When I use a word&#8230; it means just what I choose it to mean—neither more nor less.&#8221; &#8212; Humpty Dumpty to Alice in Through the Looking Glass. A week or so ago, Sarah Palin (via her Twitter account) asked peaceful Muslims to refudiate the plans of the Muslim community in lower Manhattan who want to build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialchild.net/2010/07/refudiate-neologism-or-malaprop/</link>
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		<title>I Used to Write a Lot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day when the Internet was fun&#8211;back before USENET was a abandoned to the spammers pushing porn&#8211;there was a small group of (should we call them friends? I don&#8217;t know) who hung out on alt.fan.tom-servo. It was an interesting cast of characters with a wide variety of interests, but our chief interest seemed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialchild.net/2010/07/i-used-to-write-a-lot/</link>
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		<title>Update on Nicholas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas is on a protocol that calls for him to get chemotherapy every three weeks for twenty-one weeks, and beginning week four, chemotherapy every week day for five weeks. Surgery to resect the tumor comes at week thirteen. He has been through four rounds of chemo, and all of the radiation. The chemo is not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.socialchild.net/2008/06/update-on-nicholas/</link>
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		<title>LibraryThing Top 106 Unread List</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is the list of the top 106 books marked &#8220;unread&#8221; on LibraryThing as of May 21, 2008 at 4:30 pm CDT. The point of this exercise is to see how you compare to the masses on LT. The rules: Bold what you have read, italicize books you’ve started but couldn’t finish, and strike through [...]]]></description>
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