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		<title>How to make decisions in a democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll say up front that I don&#8217;t know the answer. Everything that&#8217;s been tried up till now has real problems, so I&#8217;d like to throw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to #OccupyWallStreet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:35:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I may have something to contribute to #OccupyWallStreet. Sometimes I don&#8217;t know. The only people who would know are you, if you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to Egypt! &#8230; But &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 19:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now comes the hard part. Mohammed El-Baradei talked about the &#8220;joy and happiness of every Egyptian at the restoration of our humanity and our freedom.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The War on Teachers Ignorance III: What Could Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The title is inspired by Historiann&#8217;s excellent post. Also a note: unlike most of the things I blog about, teaching is what I&#8217;ve done professionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War on Teachers II: Why It Can&#8217;t Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2010 18:25:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The title is inspired by Historiann&#8217;s excellent post. Also a note: unlike most of the things I blog about, teaching is what I&#8217;ve done professionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War on Teachers I: GIGO</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The title is inspired by Historiann&#8217;s excellent post. Also a note: unlike most of the things I blog about, teaching is what I&#8217;ve done professionally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Noise is not Free Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:13:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re on a collision course with technology. Free speech is being killed in order to save it. Something is always boiling up that involves free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Net neutrality, Google, and Verizon</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve all heard by now that Google and Verizon will take care of it. They will come to an agreement between them that will ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wikileaks</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2010/08/wikileaks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Aug 2010 00:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let me just get this straight. On one side: a few small people who have killed nobody but may have endangered some in the interests [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it the Y chromosome?</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/11/is-it-the-y-chromosome/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/11/is-it-the-y-chromosome/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Honestly, I know enough biology to know that it can&#8217;t be. It just can&#8217;t. And yet how else to explain the sudden ignorance of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s wrong with young people everybody now</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/whats-wrong-with-young-people-everybody-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/09/whats-wrong-with-young-people-everybody-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the failures of government recently (1, 2), and it turns out (h/t dakinikat) I&#8217;m in good company. Sachs points out that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About Who Decides (One More Time)</title>
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		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/08/its-about-who-decides-one-more-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being forced to die against my will would be terrifying. And I, personally, wouldn&#8217;t care whether the death panels making that decision were staffed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Medicine and the Unfree Market</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/medicine-and-the-unfree-market/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/medicine-and-the-unfree-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicine and the so-called free market are incompatible in important ways. An outstanding article in the recent New Yorker by Atul Gawande makes that point [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about who decides</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/its-about-who-decides/</link>
		<comments>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/its-about-who-decides/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>quixote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has been brought on by a comment thread at Reclusive Leftist. The post was about feminism, but the thread kept veering off into abortion. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Single payer vs Public option</title>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/single-payer-vs-public-option/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:46:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is all you need. Shove this in anyone&#8217;s face who starts saying, &#8220;But, but, but . . . the guvvamint!&#8221; From a comment by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A sad anniversary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
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