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	<title>Acid Test</title>
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	<description>Just another soapbox surfer</description>
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		<title>Medicine and the Unfree Market</title>
		<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 from yet another new angle. (newyorker.com has a nasty habit of putting archives behind a paywall, so I don&#8217;t know how long the link will be useful.)  In all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/medicine-and-the-unfree-market/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s about who decides</title>
		<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.  Could you be a feminist and be antiabortion? 
Folks, that is the wrong question.  And asking the wrong question can never lead to the right answer, any [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/its-about-who-decides/</link>
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		<title>Single payer vs Public option</title>
		<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 Mikirivi on Krugman&#8217;s blog, a graphic prepared by Dr. Klein for the Arizona League of Women Voters:

The one solitary &#8220;disadvantage&#8221; that I can see in the Single Payer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/single-payer-vs-public-option/</link>
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		<title>A sad anniversary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been hard for me to write.  It&#8217;s part of the reason I haven&#8217;t wanted to write anything for a while.  I didn&#8217;t think I&#8217;d be here at this point.  
I started my blog because I was devastated that the US was torturing people.  Worse, the powers-that-be were making excuses [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/a-sad-anniversary/</link>
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		<title>Out of Africa: Financial Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve made the world a depressing place. Everywhere you look, all the good stuff is buried under a thick and powerful layer of crud. Sort of like an endless mall parking lot. Seedlings push through it every now and again. You can&#8217;t even see them from a distance and if you stepped on them, they&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/06/out-of-africa-financial-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Time-wasting Nerd Fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t got much done these last few days.  I&#8217;ve been too busy watching the Nasa TV live feed from the Hubble servicing mission.

The problems they have on a mission like this are so wonderfully groan-in-sympathy familiar: stuck bolts.  Like working on old plumbing, with the same issues.  They&#8217;re too professional to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/time-wasting-nerd-fun/</link>
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		<title>My life in their claws</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a mouse in a room full of cats.  In the struggle for health care reform, will Big 0&#8217;s need for popularity or his need for Big Medicine&#8217;s money win out?

A few weeks ago, I would have bet on number two.  Never forget that this is the (expletive deleted) whose idea [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/my-life-in-their-claws/</link>
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		<title>Condemned to Repeat?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ecological disaster bad enough to destroy people has happened before.  The only difference was the limited technology of the times, and therefore the limited scope of the dying.
Sean Gallagher has a striking report, a series of pictures each worth thousands of words.

That was then.  Two thousand years ago, Yinpan in Central Asia was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/condemned-to-repeat/</link>
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		<title>Button Up.  Your Sexism is Showing.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So now it&#8217;s Sotomayor.  According to Jeffrey Rosen, who spoke to some law clerk, she&#8217;s not fit to be a judge on the Supreme Court because she has opinions, she expresses those opinions, she expresses those opinions forcefully and at length. 
(Shows you how much I know about the law.  I thought that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/button-up-your-sexism-is-showing/</link>
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		<title>Krugman on target AGAIN</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s lucky he&#8217;s got tenure.  With his track record, he&#8217;d be drummed out of economics otherwise. I mean, this is the field which, in all seriousness, avers that we&#8217;ll never run out of oil.  And they&#8217;re right.  If oil costs $10,000 a gallon, people will go to any lengths to extract or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/05/krugman-on-target-again/</link>
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		<title>Sue not lest ye be discovered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via Ars Technica, Climate lobbying group ignored its own science advisors, The Global Climate Coalition was one of the main industry groups spreading FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) about global warming.  Now one of the GCC members, the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers, is suing in an attempt
&#8220;to block California&#8217;s efforts to regulate automotive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/sue-not-lest-ye-be-discovered/</link>
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		<title>Swine flu: here we go again</title>
		<description><![CDATA[update below
The news is spreading everywhere: Mexico flu &#8216;a potential pandemic&#8217;.  In the next few days we&#8217;ll probably have a replay of the bad old bird flu days.  Tamiflu!  Hide in your house!  Shoot the postman!  Or whatever level of idiocy we achieve this time.
I did one of my POPs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/swine-flu-here-we-go-again/</link>
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		<title>The Search for ET Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Actually, what I&#8217;m about to discuss is the search for ET life, but you have to start somewhere and it&#8217;s getting more clear by the day that alien intelligence is the best hope for us blog denizens to find someone to talk to.  
The idea that we&#8217;re not alone has a long and fascinating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/the-search-for-et-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Too funny (so far)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have spies amidst the gun-toters.  When they first told me the following, I assumed they were just trying one of their cold, spy-ish jokes.  I should have had more faith in them:
Ammo in short supply; Dem takeover gets blame
With firearm dealers struggling to keep ammunition on their shelves, it seems the gun [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/too-funny-so-far/</link>
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		<title>Plants can make global warming worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of the codswallop on what to do about global warming &#8212; okay, ALL of the codswallop &#8212; is driving me nuts.  Nuts, I tell you.   If a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, next-to-no knowledge is radioactive. 
The latest comes via the Times: Plants buy Earth more time as CO2 makes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/plants-can-make-global-warming-worse/</link>
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		<title>Science Education: Who Needs It?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The evidence suggests an awful lot of people need it.  A recent study by Harris Interactive for the California Academy of Sciences found the following:


Only 53% of adults know how long it takes for the Earth to revolve around the Sun.
Only 59% of adults know that the earliest humans and dinosaurs did not live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.molvray.com/acid-test/2009/04/science-education-who-needs-it/</link>
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