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		<title>C in Facts, F in Interpretation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not one to defend Sarah Palin, but the 11,000+ comments on HuffingtonPost in the wake of her recent admission that she and her family used to go to Canadian hospitals when she was young seem a bit of a cheap shot.  Apparently, it&#8217;s &#8220;hypocritical&#8221; of Palin to denounce Canada&#8217;s healthcare system when she [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hucking for a Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a &#8220;homeless&#8221; man who stands on a corner near where I work with a sign asking for free money.  Even if I hadn&#8217;t seen him get out of a car to put in a hard 3-hour day of begging recently, I would have my suspicions: he&#8217;s been doing this since at least summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Magicians (and how to enjoy it)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lev Grossman&#8217;s The Magicians is a tough nut to crack precisely because it&#8217;s so transparent.  It&#8217;s one of those books that I feel like I should hate, and so am surprised to find I really loved!  What gives?
Its probably the best exemplar of what I&#8217;d like to call the &#8220;new high-brow.&#8221;  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/TOWM/2010/02/25/the-magicians-and-how-to-enjoy-it/</link>
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		<title>On Not Knowing What I Know I don&#8217;t Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting to look at the history of ideas as an evolutionary process, by which parent ideas adapt defenses to survive their circumstances which they then pass on to their descendendants.  Presumably, we&#8217;re all aiming at The Truth, whatever that is, and we try out solutions until one seems to fit.  And once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/TOWM/2010/02/22/on-not-knowing-what-i-know-i-dont-know/</link>
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		<title>Who Won, Who Cares, and How Do We Know?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not a big sports fan.  I enjoy watching soccer, badminton, tennis, UFC, and can get myself worked up about college basketball under the right circumstances.  NFL and baseball put me to sleep, and I think that pretty much exhausts the list of sports I even really know about.  For the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Raising and Lowering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interesting (though in retrospect probably obvious) thought gelled out of a discussion with Alexis about animal rights:  there are both raising and lowering solutions to inequality problems, and a lot of times people get pigeonholed into saying things they don&#8217;t really mean by failing to consider the raising solution if they&#8217;ve already thought of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/TOWM/2010/02/18/on-raising-and-lowering/</link>
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		<title>How to be Politically Self-Defeating in one easy Lesson</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An asinine comment seen on Facebook:

Thinks that Evan Bayh needs to stand up more and not sit it out, if he is dissatisfied with Capital Hill. We need strong leaders. I think he&#8217;s worried that the conflict of interest will shine through.

Referring, of course, to the fact that Evan Bayh is taking his toys and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/TOWM/2010/02/16/how-to-be-politically-self-defeating-in-one-easy-lesson/</link>
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		<title>Two Costs Twice as Much</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, if you order two beers, you pay for two.  And if you want to walk out of the grocery store with two bags of chips, they customarily want you to pay for both of them.  Of course, if you pick up a pair of shoes, then you get a left one and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/TOWM/2010/02/16/two-costs-twice-as-much/</link>
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		<title>So you think you might be an Anagreeable&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arnold Kling has a followup post to his earlier speculation that Ayn Rand&#8217;s enduring appeal owes to her being a kind of &#8220;ellaborate justification for low agreeableness,&#8221; about which I posted some thoughts.  In it, he offers advice based on his own experience on how to get by as what I term an &#8220;anagreeable.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwherring.com/TOWM/2010/01/27/so-you-think-you-might-be-an-anagreeable/</link>
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		<title>Cameron&#8217;s no Disney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For anyone worried that the annoying Avatar might actually be the highest-grossing film of all time, as is sometimes claimed, fear not - it&#8217;s not even in the top twenty.  A least, not according to NC State Economics students&#8217; homework research.  As their professor neatly sums it up, the winners are &#8220;Disney and [...]]]></description>
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