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		<title>2010 Olympics &#8212; Boring Opening Ceremony</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 16:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Winter Olympics kicked off Friday night in Canada with what I thought was the worst opening ceremony I've ever seen. ]]></description>
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		<title>Hyphen Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grammar Police]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline below is from MSNBC, and ran above an AP story. I show it here because it represents a common grammatical error in English: a misplaced hyphen. People often think when there are two adjectives modifying a noun, there should be a hyphen connecting them. Or perhaps people think when the two adjectives are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s that white stuff?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sacramento woke up today to its first measurable snowfall in 33 years.]]></description>
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		<title>About that socialism stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[People who complain about the threat of socialism remind me of the man from Virginia who went to college on the GI Bill and bought his first house with a VA loan. When a hurricane struck he got federal disaster aid. When he got sick he was treated at a veteran&#8217;s hospital. When he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who will watch the watchers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 22:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[America]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Police]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Power]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On May Day in 2007, immigrants and their supporters around the US rallied in major cities to announce their support for immigrant rights. In Los Angeles, police said protesters threw &#8220;plastic bottles and other projectiles,&#8221; according to Democracy Now! Police decided to clear the park of protesters, and in the process used rubber bullets, tear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A poem for America&#8217;s birthday</title>
		<link>http://www.etoma.net/?p=36</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let America be America againby Langston Hughes Let America be America again.Let it be the dream it used to be.Let it be the pioneer on the plainSeeking a home where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed&#8211;Let it be that great strong land of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives</title>
		<link>http://www.etoma.net/?p=34</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.-John Kenneth Galbraith]]></description>
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		<title>Starting Over</title>
		<link>http://www.etoma.net/?p=32</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We have it in our power to begin the world over again.-Thomas Paine]]></description>
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		<title>Journalists and Newsreaders</title>
		<link>http://www.etoma.net/?p=26</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CBS News promotes its Face the Nation Sunday interview program with tape of Bob Schieffer, the host, saying something like, &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to talk to the people who make the decisions. That&#8217;s the only way you find out what&#8217;s going on.&#8221; This reminds me of a round-table interview with the three principal news anchors after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome!</title>
		<link>http://www.etoma.net/?p=1</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to etoma. Thanks for coming. Plenty of empty seats down front for the standees in the back. Make yourself comfortable, pour your favorite beverage, and limber up your mind.]]></description>
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