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	<title>Mind Scalpel</title>
	
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	<description>Stupidity got us into this mess; stupidity will get us out!</description>
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		<title>Not Funny: The Obesity of Evil</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 21:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, for a wonderful demonstration that evil&#8217;s face can be pretty pudgy, take a look at this short video from an academic conference at UC San Diego.  A student whose appearance is otherwise unremarkable (except for the fact that she&#8217;s a walking &#8220;Glamour Don&#8217;t&#8221;) lets her mask slip, just for a second, to expose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valentine’s Day: Of Men and Monkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 03:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m a romantic guy, so I torture monkeys.
Now, stay with me here!  It all connects up.
See, there’s an oft-repeated story about an experiment in the creation of cultural taboos and traditions involving putting a bunch of monkeys in a room together with a ladder and a banana hanging from the ceiling at the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Machines Have Already Taken Over, Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, when did they pass a law requiring me to be polite to a computer?
Look, maybe I&#8217;m just too steeped in this world-takeover stuff (any day now, by the way!), but you&#8217;d think the so-called &#8220;experts&#8221; would have learned how to take precautions against a robot revolt.
But no, apparently not.  For example, when Microsoft&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hey!  They didn’t ask me…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 01:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So apparently some researchers wanted to study the effects that pornography has on the male psyche.  Naturally, in order to do so, they wanted to compare their study group of naughty-video-watchers with a &#8220;control group&#8221; of pure, never-saw-the-stuff young males.
The problem?  The researchers discovered that their control group was what statisticians call a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Quick!  Somebody Give Me Swine Flu!</title>
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		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2009/06/20/quick-somebody-give-me-swine-flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am desperately searching for someone who can infect me with the swine flu.  That might seem counterintuitive; after all, there are all sorts of hysterical predictions about the danger of the swine flu pandemic, and people have indeed died from it.
But what the authorities aren&#8217;t really advertising is that if this swine flu [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ow!  Thinking is so DIFFICULT!</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MindScalpel/~3/YGrPZvlCzDM/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2009/06/18/ow-thinking-is-so-difficult/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coming from the News of the Pathetic Department: Obama volunteers are finding that it&#8217;s much tougher to work on an actual substantive issue than it is to march in mindless lockstep on a binary choice.
According to Bloomberg:
When Patricia McArdle volunteered for Barack Obama&#8217;s presidential campaign, her duties and goals were clear. Now she’s devoting her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Next War: Stable Finances</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MindScalpel/~3/7iCS-Uyva0g/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2009/01/31/the-next-war-stable-finances/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:26:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=132</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hey!&#160; I have a suggestion.
Since we supposedly invaded Iraq to get control of their oil, why can&#8217;t we invade another country to confiscate their good credit?&#160; 
I nominate Switzerland.
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		<title>President Obama’s Master Plan – Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[daschle]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=130</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s brilliant.  It&#8217;s subtle.  It&#8217;s happening before people&#8217;s eyes, and no one has detected it.
It&#8217;s President Obama&#8217;s plan to eliminate the United States government&#8217;s deficit, and he&#8217;s doing it one nominee at a time.
At first I was confused &#8212; how could the President think that Timothy Geithner, a man who had &#8220;inadvertently&#8221; failed to pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Times Can’t Even Keep Up With Iraqi Press Shoe-Throwing</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MindScalpel/~3/KgQaUM7ZWCQ/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/14/new-york-times-cant-even-keep-up-with-iraqi-press-shoe-throwing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 23:49:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Belatedly reacting to an Iraqi journalist&#8217;s poorly-aimed footwear assault on President Bush during a news conference today, the New York Times asserted that it &#8220;had been working on a Presidential shoe-throwing, but our plummeting subscription rates and reduced revenues had cut our training budgets.&#8221;
Internal reports from the New York Times painted a portrait of disarray [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why People Object to Car Maker Bailouts Even Though The Bank Bailouts Went Through</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MindScalpel/~3/qYHwu0G91AE/</link>
		<comments>http://mindscalpel.com/2008/12/12/why-people-object-to-car-maker-bailouts-even-though-the-bank-bailouts-went-through/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 19:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mind Scalpel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mindscalpel.com/?p=118</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two simple reasons:
1) Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me.
2) Everyone understands, at the gut level, how aggravating an overpriced, shoddy car is, especially when coupled with an unpleasant purchasing experience and unscrupulous dealer service.  Few average joes have time to delve into the intricacies of credit default swaps, legislative [...]]]></description>
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