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    <title>Sense and Nonsense</title>
    
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    <updated>2009-12-24T16:28:36-05:00</updated>
    <subtitle>Jack Tierney

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        <title>A Christmas Carol for You</title>
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            <name>John</name>
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        <title>The Way Things Work</title>
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        <published>2009-12-24T16:12:36-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-24T16:12:36-05:00</updated>
        <summary />
        <author>
            <name>John</name>
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        <title>Christmas Cheer</title>
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        <published>2009-12-24T10:15:07-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-24T10:15:07-05:00</updated>
        <summary>© Steve Sack © Joel Pett</summary>
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            <name>John</name>
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<p><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://www.gocomics.com/stevesack/2009/12/23/" style="color: #2244bb; " target="_blank">© Steve Sack</a></span></p>

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        <title>A Star is Born</title>
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        <published>2009-12-23T07:17:07-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-23T07:17:49-05:00</updated>
        <summary>You may already have seen this video of a little kid playing Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" on a ukelele. Pretty damn cute.</summary>
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            <name>John</name>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://johntierney.typepad.com/sense_and_nonsense/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>You may already have seen this video of a little kid playing Jason Mraz's "I'm Yours" on a ukelele.  Pretty damn cute.  </p><p /><p align="center" class="asset asset-video" style="display: block; margin: 0 auto;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ErMWX--UJZ4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ErMWX--UJZ4&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" /></object></p><p /><xhtml:img xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnTierney/~4/OPOXeUDjpP8" height="1" width="1" /></div></content>


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        <title>Party Crashers</title>
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        <published>2009-12-22T18:50:15-05:00</published>
        <updated>2009-12-22T18:51:37-05:00</updated>
        <summary>In my ever-diligent quest to bring you all the news, all the time, about the inveterate party crashers, Michaela Holt Salahi and Tareq Salahi, I suggest you read this item from today's Washington Post. They're fucked up. Bad genes. What can you say?</summary>
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<content type="xhtml" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://johntierney.typepad.com/sense_and_nonsense/"><div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In my ever-diligent quest to bring you all the news, all the time, about the inveterate party crashers, <span style="font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: #bf005f; font-size: 15px; ">Michaela <span style="color: #ff7f00; font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: #6000bf; font-size: 15px; "><span style="color: #007f40; font-size: 15px; ">Holt</span></span></span> Salahi and Tareq Salahi</span></span>, I suggest you read <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/21/AR2009122103611.html?wpisrc=newsletter" target="_blank">this item</a> from today's <em>Washington Post</em>.  They're fucked up.  Bad genes.  What can you say?</p><xhtml:img xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnTierney/~4/cb3hihQ0aqU" height="1" width="1" /></div></content>


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