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		<title>On Courage and Heroes</title>
		<link>http://vellon.com/2010/05/31/on-courage-and-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 21:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I attended an off-road motorcycle class. After a few preliminary basics, we started learning some basic skills: climbing hills, descending hills, hopping over obstacles, riding through slippery terrain and, most importantly, lifting up one&#8217;s bike after you&#8217;ve fallen down. After two days of camp, I&#8217;d fallen down 3 times, once resulting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Dogma</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something that fundamentally bugs me when when I listen to Tea Party folk. Partly it&#8217;s the whole &#8220;squishiness&#8221; of the movement. Disaffected moderates stand next to white supremacists in an organization whose only consistent message seems to be &#8220;anger&#8221;.  At another level, though, there&#8217;s a theme I&#8217;ve heard coming from TP folk that strikes a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #5: Humans Seek Meaning</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By any reasonable measure, I have everything I have ever wanted: a beautiful wife who loves me in spite of my faults; two great kids (one at Princeton another with a good chance of getting in); a big house in a great neighborhood; good friends all around the world; good health; enough money to retire on. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #4: Nothing is Perfect</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Right off the bat, let me clarify that I&#8217;m talking about the physical world that you and I inhabit. This post is not a theological exploration of whether or not God can create an immovable object.
Instead, I want to explore some things regarding which I believe people have unreasonably high expectations, namely:

Justice
Elections
Science

There&#8217;s probably others that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inescapable Truth #3: There Will Be Poor Always</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the U.S., poor people are more likely to be obese than rich people. Obesity is inversely proportional to family income.
Doesn&#8217;t this just blow you away? Surely, poor people don&#8217;t have enough money to buy food, right? How can they be obese?
The answer, of course, is that in the U.S. fast, unhealthy, food is cheaper [...]]]></description>
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