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	<title>Compatible Creatures - War &#38; Politics &#38; Life</title>
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	<description>&#34;I don&#039;t know where I&#039;ll be then, but I sure won&#039;t smell too good.&#34; ~Lt. Zipper</description>
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		<title>Blog Thyself: &#8216;Do You Have The Time, To Listen To Me Whine&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Writing society:
I remember when it was kind of cool to be a blogger. You&#8217;d walk around with a swagger in your step, a twinkle in your eye. Now it&#8217;s just humiliating. Blogging has become like mahjong or needlepoint or clipping coupons out of Walgreens circulars: something old folks do while waiting to croak.

(Illustration found here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2010/02/14/blog-thyself-do-you-have-the-time-to-listen-to-me-whine/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;And get a note to the milkman: No More Cheese!&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course, one can forgive Steve McCroskey for nearly-screaming demands at his wife.
The airport manager was having a real-real neurotic day, was under intense, coronary-inducing pressure, and what the heck, an airliner was in great jeopardy, hundreds of lives were at stake, and Johnny wasn&#8217;t helping at all, clowning around, being a total douche-bag.
And on top [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2010/01/10/and-get-a-note-to-the-milkman-no-more-cheese/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Seeing&#8217; Face</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just as I figured: Computers are intolerant, racially discriminatory and just creepy.
Figuring out  African-Americans was a problem for HP&#8217;s newest face-recognition gear:
In the video, Wanda (Caucasian) and Desi (African American) &#8212; two employees at what appears to be a computer electronics store &#8212; expose a flaw in the webcam software.
As depicted, the software has no problem [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/21/seeing-face/</link>
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		<title>Pass This On&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Must-read on the twisted-horror of the US Senate health care bill at FireDogLake.
Politics and the human condition.
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		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/21/pass-this-on/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Why aren&#8217;t they turning?&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of bad news from many quarters, this latest does make one feel better.
From Wired:
That asteroid is Apophis, a 900-foot asteroid. Calculations released on Christmas Eve 2004 appeared to show that there was a greater than 2 percent chance the asteroid would hit the Earth in 2029. 
The asteroid appeared ready to give [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/20/why-arent-they-turning/</link>
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		<title>Light-Up a Smoke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Copenhagen: Tempers flared Monday at the United Nations climate summit as poor nations staged a walkout to protest what they called inadequate aid offers from rich countries, and the U.S. and China jockeyed for position.
The talks have become what one observer called a &#8220;farce,&#8221; as guidelines agreed on two years ago are not even obtainable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/14/light-up-a-smoke/</link>
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		<title>Anoxic Anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nearly in a near-panic.
Wikipedia: Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events occur when the Earth&#8217;s oceans become completely depleted of oxygen (O2) below the surface levels.
Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geological record shows that they happened many times in the past.
Anoxic events may have caused mass extinctions.
These mass extinctions were so [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/13/anoxic-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Intense Irony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One really mind-boggling particular nowadays is the continual use of hypocritical-irony; creating a two-faced lie through the clenched-teeth of a smile.
Verbal irony is distinguished from situational irony and dramatic irony in that it is produced intentionally by speakers.
For instance, if a speaker exclaims, “I’m not upset!” but reveals an upset emotional state through their voice [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/12/intense-irony/</link>
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		<title>Another Gone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Highlights the desperate plight of news gathering: Editor&#38;Publisher, an authentic cornerstone of journalism will cease publication at the end of this year.
The announcement was made Thursday on its online site.
An interview today with Greg Mitchell, E&#38;P&#8217;s editor since 2002, on the demise of the newspaper-trade industry/journo-icon can be found at Columbia Journalism Review.
Read a brief [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/12/10/another-gone/</link>
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		<title>Headin&#8217; to Helmand</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From President Obama&#8217;s lips to boots on the ground.
Word came Sunday night: Escalation &#8212; 35,000 more troops for the Afghan meat-grinder.
And the first batch, 9,000 Marines for Helmand province, will leave as soon as Obama opens his mouth Tuesday at West Point, an event creating a most-strange and ironic circumstance for a snow-job &#8212; He will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://bruce.maulden.us/2009/11/30/headin-to-helmand/</link>
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