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	<updated>2012-05-25T15:15:21Z</updated>

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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Adam Yauch: An Appreciation]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2425</id>
		<updated>2012-05-05T13:06:16Z</updated>
		<published>2012-05-05T13:02:45Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[The first time I heard Paul&#8217;s Boutique, I was sitting by a friend&#8217;s pool.  High school summer vacation style, swilling cheap beer, listening to the usual mash up of random artists &#8211; Stones, Suicidal Tendencies, U2, Black Sabbath, INXS, Public Enemy, Bad Brains, Metallica, Zeppelin, the Cult, Boogie Down Productions, AC/DC, Guns n&#8217; Roses, and [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[The Bush Deficit]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2412</id>
		<updated>2012-04-06T12:21:55Z</updated>
		<published>2012-04-06T12:21:55Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: I have a new piece up at ConstitutionalDaily.  Here&#8217;s a teaser: Bush wasn&#8217;t so bad.  In fact, when I consider our situation today, I get a bit wistful for the past. Before you judgmental sorts shred me for this heresy, allow me to defend myself.  Hear me out on the subject, and then [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Why I Do Not Eat Doughnuts]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2335</id>
		<updated>2012-02-11T19:28:04Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-11T19:23:49Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I have a new piece up at ConstitutionalDaily.com, &#8220;Why I Do Not Eat Doughnuts.&#8221;  A few excerpts: &#8220;Consider the endless varieties of vice in which one can engage.  Sex, alcohol, drugs, gambling, smoking&#8230; Each is bad for the body or mind.  But each also provides something else: A respite from the tedium, or stress, of [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Malthus, Minsky, Wealth Inequality, and a Few Other Light Topics]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2314</id>
		<updated>2012-02-06T10:24:46Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-03T18:34:34Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Following up on &#8220;A Few Fixes for Most of Everything Wrong,&#8221; I&#8217;ve enjoyed an ongoing debate with a supporter of the Occupy Movements regarding social inequality, overpopulation, wealth disparity, and a few other light topics.  Below are some highlights (his points are in bold, my replies in standard text): Thank you for actually replying. Thank [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[If You Must Swear and Insult, Do It Well]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2300</id>
		<updated>2012-02-02T17:39:38Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-02T17:39:38Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Profanity&#8217;s an art.  Use too much, or varieties already too common in everyday conversation, and it&#8217;s dull&#8230; loses all its edge, all the punch it&#8217;s supposed to offer.  The same applies to insult.  Call a man something he&#8217;s called twenty times a week by his wife and your comment might as well be the hum [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[A Few Fixes for Most of Everything Wrong]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2282</id>
		<updated>2012-02-06T10:23:23Z</updated>
		<published>2012-02-02T16:52:26Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I rarely respond to critics, but a spirited response to my piece of a few weeks ago, &#8220;Help Wanted: Dissidents,&#8221; in which I took issue with the Occupy movements, warranted a reply.  And in offering one, I offered what I think are, at least conceptually, fixes for some of the challenges facing the country. Let [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[American Dream Round Table]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2260</id>
		<updated>2012-01-13T17:04:28Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-13T16:43:13Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[I recently did a round table discussion on the American Dream.  Here&#8217;s a part of the conversation I offered: The American Dream is freedom to be left alone, to succeed or fail on your own.  It&#8217;s the promise that with effort, or luck, or both, you can find an unmolested happiness.  And when I say [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Help Wanted: Dissidents]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2232</id>
		<updated>2012-01-06T00:25:04Z</updated>
		<published>2012-01-06T00:25:04Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[You do not become a &#8221;dissident&#8221; just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Johnnie Walker Double Black, Some Girls, and Dr. Pepper Ten (Or, The Really Low Hanging Fruit of Future Innovation)]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2221</id>
		<updated>2011-12-17T01:48:03Z</updated>
		<published>2011-12-17T01:31:16Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[1. You may have heard of an economist named Tyler Cowen. If not, look him up, and read his book, The Great Stagnation. It argues, correctly, irrefutably, something the main stream media will never discuss: That the cause of the United States&#8217; financial problems (and the world&#8217;s, for that matter) derive less from bad policy decisions, [...]]]></summary>
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			<name>PhilaLawyer</name>
						<uri>http://philalawyer.net</uri>
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		<title type="html"><![CDATA[Capitalistas!]]></title>
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		<id>http://philalawyer.net/?p=2163</id>
		<updated>2011-10-28T03:30:44Z</updated>
		<published>2011-10-27T13:32:48Z</published>
		<category scheme="http://philalawyer.net" term="Uncategorized" />		<summary type="html"><![CDATA[Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking. &#8211; John Morley (1838-1923) Call them unwashed, naive, incoherent&#8230; Misfits, miscreants, and malcontents. The damaged goods of society&#8230; oblong pegs in a world of square and circle holes. Call the Occupy Wall Street crowds, and their organized labor supporters, whatever you like. Just don&#8217;t call them [...]]]></summary>
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