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	<title>American Madness</title>
	
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	<description>Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation</description>
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		<title>Carnegie Hall has crappy marketing (and other reasons for the death of classical music)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Friedlander</dc:creator>
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So here is the crux of my problem with Carnegie Hall: It worships the musicians at the expense of the music.



I am on the list for Carnegie Hall because I&#8217;ve attended a couple of concerts there, but I rarely respond to emails or mailings and I haven&#8217;t been to the Hall in years. Why? Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m flummoxed, can anyone explain this to me!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmadness.com/2010/07/15/im-flummoxed-can-anyone-explain-this-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure that almost no one is terribly concerned with how ultra orthodox Jews view the preparation of leafy vegetables.  A friend of mine’s daughter was told by a super orthodox Rabbi that if she served a lettuce without taking it apart and examining every part of the leaf for tiny bugs, eating it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-funding regulation: Another stupid idea</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmadness.com/2010/06/12/self-funding-regulation-anotoher-retarded-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[if you think the sec is corrupt now just wait]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mary Shapiro was and remains a lobbyist]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Response to Top Securities Lawyers Call for Self-Funded S.E.C., in which it is stated that &#8220;Forty leading securities lawyers urged Congress on Friday to allow the S.E.C. to keep the hundreds of millions of dollars in fees it collects each year and use them to support its operations&#8221;:
We select among a series of bad options. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Stimulus” is a meaningless term</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmadness.com/2010/06/11/stimulus-is-a-meaningless-term/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 08:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks thinks he's an economist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brooks would probably fail and LSAT logic question]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[this is not very hard to understand]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My reply to David Brooks (who now fancies himself an economist):
If economists had a clue most of them would work real jobs producing something. This is REALLY simple. 
If you had a friend who was in debt to his eyeballs and had just lost his job and he asked for a loan to spend the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Friedman math: debt + inexperience = success!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 05:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lord Halifax</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tom Friedman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[What ever happened to Anna Quindlin?]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Friedman, the most “important columnist in America,” reminded New York Times readers on Wednesday that all is possible if you just pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Friedman’s latest footnote in America’s ongoing Horatio Alger narrative prescribes a new round of government tax cuts to help college graduates start their own businesses.
By Friedman’s twisted [...]]]></description>
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