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<item rdf:about="http://www.vice.com/read/i-confronted-donald-trump-in-dubai">
    <title>I Confronted Donald Trump in Dubai | VICE United States</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-02T22:16:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vice.com/read/i-confronted-donald-trump-in-dubai</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['“Mr. Trump,” I ask, “the workers who build your villas make less than $200 a month. Are you satisfied?"'

'Dubai's skyscrapers are our era's pyramids. Slaves built the original pyramids, but tourists visit just the same.']]></description>
<dc:subject>vice dubai politics donaldtrump</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a518f2bb1801/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:politics"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://markasaurus.com/2014/05/28/the-unintended-effects-of-direct-democracy-say-no-to-ballot-box-planning-on-proposition-b-june-3rd/">
    <title>Say “no” to ballot box planning on Proposition B | Markasaurus</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-02T07:23:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://markasaurus.com/2014/05/28/the-unintended-effects-of-direct-democracy-say-no-to-ballot-box-planning-on-proposition-b-june-3rd/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On San Francisco's Proposition B (June 2014), which suggests that any change of waterfront height limits needs to go before the entire city.]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanfrancisco politics planning building proposition</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:4945b1f7035c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:building"/>
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<item rdf:about="https://medium.com/message/3450a5bc98d2">
    <title>‘Selling Out’ Is Meaningless | Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-28T20:27:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/message/3450a5bc98d2</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['In the recent Frontline documentary “Generation Like,” Doug Rushkoff lamented that today’s youth don’t even know what the term “sell-out” means.']]></description>
<dc:subject>medium sellingout politics culture art music danahboyd</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:42e3e6445d0c/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:sellingout"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:politics"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:culture"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:art"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:music"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:danahboyd"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theawl.com/2014/05/pinch-sulzberger-fire-yourself-today">
    <title>Pinch Sulzberger, Fire Yourself Today | The Awl</title>
    <dc:date>2014-05-16T17:09:16+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theawl.com/2014/05/pinch-sulzberger-fire-yourself-today</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The report also suggests 'TED-style talks' bc everyone and everything in the 21st century is terrible and stupid." http://t.co/wgq0bV768h]]></description>
<dc:subject>newspaper politics internet culture</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:87b61b42cfc9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10635472/The-most-objectionable-dating-website-ever.html">
    <title>The most objectionable dating website ever? | Telegraph</title>
    <dc:date>2014-03-04T21:34:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/10635472/The-most-objectionable-dating-website-ever.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Some people don’t like getting the truth told too obviously. Women will always look for wealthy partners, and the most attractive will get them. It comes from the Stone Age and survival of the fittest, where if women were not able to mate with successful men they would not have children and they would die.
“Obviously we don’t live in that kind of society now, but millions of years of evolution have pushed women into being that way – even if they’re not aware of it.” How the hell is this man even Danish?]]></description>
<dc:subject>dating politics gender sexism telegraph</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:2e9491b48954/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live">
    <title>Where will we live?: The Housing Disaster | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-29T02:25:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n01/james-meek/where-will-we-live</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[James Meek, LRB: “The advent of the age of gentrification doesn’t preclude the advent of slumification” ]]></description>
<dc:subject>uk politics housing society slums profit councilhousing</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:5d0924181eb6/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:society"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:slums"/>
	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:profit"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/">
    <title>I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System | The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-19T23:59:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/i-got-myself-arrested-so-i-could-look-inside-the-justice-system/282360/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bobby Constantino: "In between the important cases, I found myself spending most of my time prosecuting people of color for things we white kids did with impunity growing up in the suburbs. As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor’s yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings – I often wondered if there was a side of the justice system that we never saw in the suburbs. Last year, I got myself arrested in New York City and found out." Depressing but necessary reading.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us politics justice law graffiti race racism newyorkcity probation</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b9753c2af83d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theurbancountry.com/2013/11/dad-arrested-for-picking-up-kids-at-school-by-foot.html">
    <title>Dad Arrested For Picking Up Kids At School By Foot ← The Urban Country</title>
    <dc:date>2013-12-04T20:23:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theurbancountry.com/2013/11/dad-arrested-for-picking-up-kids-at-school-by-foot.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A Tennessee father was arrested recently by an overzealous officer for picking his children up at school by foot. The school’s policy is that children can only be picked up by parents driving cars or kids can board a school bus."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us politics culture transport cars tennessee education infrastructure</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b1c0b98e98cc/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n20/stefan-collini/sold-out">
    <title>Stefan Collini · Sold Out: The Costs of University Privatisation | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-23T13:52:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n20/stefan-collini/sold-out</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Depressing but necessary reading on the stealthy privatisation and centralisation of tuition and research in higher education in the UK.]]></description>
<dc:subject>education lrb privatisation politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:074200784a5f/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:privatisation"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2013/11/shafted-again.html">
    <title>Shafted Again | Bike Snob NYC</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-12T01:10:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://bikesnobnyc.blogspot.com/2013/11/shafted-again.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We deserve respect for being human, and it ends there." @bikesnobnyc on the NY Times cycling article this weekend.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cycling newyork driving transport politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:9b3029c29df4/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/11/cycling-v-cars">
    <title>Cycling v cars: The American right-of-way | The Economist</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-11T19:48:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/11/cycling-v-cars</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I guess it depends on how much one values human life, as against the inconvenience of having to look in the rearview mirror more often." That's from the Economist's piece reacting to Saturday's NYTimes "is it OK to kill cyclists?" article.]]></description>
<dc:subject>economist cycling driving transport politics via:@tominsam</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1579e019d7f8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/roadrights/2013/10/29/theres-another-way/">
    <title>Road Rights - There's Another Way | Bicycling.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-10T03:11:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.bicycling.com/blogs/roadrights/2013/10/29/theres-another-way/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On the Dutch approach to blame in cycle collisions. I like this.]]></description>
<dc:subject>cycling politics transport netherlands law</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:17f796077dfc/</dc:identifier>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:netherlands"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to-kill-cyclists.html?pagewanted=all">
    <title>Is It O.K. to Kill Cyclists?</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-10T02:57:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/opinion/sunday/is-it-ok-to-kill-cyclists.html?pagewanted=all</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['There is something undeniably screwy about a justice system that makes it de facto legal to kill people” the New York Times on cycling and deaths.]]></description>
<dc:subject>nytimes cycling politics us transport comment</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:a7479fc50923/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.jacobian.org/writing/truceconf/">
    <title>On TRUCEConf</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-09T18:12:47+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.jacobian.org/writing/truceconf/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I wrote some words about @truceconf and why it’s so insulting and harmful"]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism conference technology politics sexism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:f32375944c10/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:feminism"/>
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	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:blech/t:technology"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/2013/11/08/tea_party_shocker_even_right_wingers_become_liberals_when_they_turn_off_fox_news/">
    <title>Even right-wingers become liberals when they turn off Fox News | Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-08T21:14:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2013/11/08/tea_party_shocker_even_right_wingers_become_liberals_when_they_turn_off_fox_news/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["PPC created a simplified budget process, meant to mimic the deliberative budget process, particularly with its consideration of tradeoffs.
"The results of the process were extremely detailed, particularly compared to what pollsters normally produce.  But the big picture was strikingly clear. Massive cuts to defense on the spending side, massive tax hikes on the revenue side"]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics economics spending us</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b3e244b8baf8/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/new-economy-is-indentured-taskrabbits.html">
    <title>The New Economy Is Indentured TaskRabbits | Daily Intelligencer</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-08T17:05:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/new-economy-is-indentured-taskrabbits.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“the statistic that only 10 percent of TaskRabbits earn enough to make it a full-time job is casually mentioned.” ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics economics taskrabbit economy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:4fe197f3d564/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/">
    <title>A shapefile of the TZ timezones of the world | efele.net</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-06T22:12:36+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://efele.net/maps/tz/world/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The tz_world shapefile captures the boundaries of the TZ timezones across the world, as of TZ 2013b. The geometries are all POLYGONs, and a TZ timezone will sometimes have multiple polygons. There are about 28,000 rows."]]></description>
<dc:subject>geography map timezone data shapefile time politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b4b4615d4278/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/11/is-it-too-late-to-prepare-for-climate-change.html">
    <title>Is It Too Late to Prepare for Climate Change? | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2013-11-05T21:05:45+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/11/is-it-too-late-to-prepare-for-climate-change.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['“Many of the ills of the modern world—starvation, poverty, flooding, heat waves, droughts, war and disease—are likely to worsen as the world warms from man-made climate change,” the Associated Press observed in its analysis of the report.']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n21/dominic-dromgoole/short-cuts">
    <title>LRB · Dominic Dromgoole and Clive Stafford Smith · Short Cuts</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-31T12:22:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/v35/n21/dominic-dromgoole/short-cuts</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The sinister use of Shakespearian characters in Guantanamo"]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.people-press.org/2013/02/22/as-sequester-deadline-looms-little-support-for-cutting-most-programs/">
    <title>As Sequester Deadline Looms, Little Support for Cutting Most Programs | Pew Research</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-30T20:21:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.people-press.org/2013/02/22/as-sequester-deadline-looms-little-support-for-cutting-most-programs/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["For 18 of 19 programs tested, majorities want either to increase spending or maintain it at current levels. The only exception is assistance for needy people around the world. "]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/silicon-valleys-dysfunction-fetish.html">
    <title>Silicon Valley’s Dysfunction Fetish - Daily Intelligencer | NY Magazine</title>
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    <link>http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/silicon-valleys-dysfunction-fetish.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["the bigger takeaway from Palihapitiya's rant is that a certain strain of influential Silicon Valley thought has moved past passive political apathy and into a kind of anarchist cheerleading. Dysfunction and shutdowns are good, this line of thinking goes, because it hamstrings Washington's ability to mess with the private sector's profit-making schemes."]]></description>
<dc:subject>siliconvalley government culture politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/14/how-the-tea-party-broke-the-constitution/">
    <title>How the Tea Party broke the Constitution | Wonkblog</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Two main points from this: that federal discretionary spending is already at 80% of 2010 levels, and that the Tea Party, despite claiming to praise representative democracy, has in fact had the effect of making it more direct (and more dangerously radical).]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics us shutdown teaparty republicans spending government congress</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2013/oct/15/women-science-history-ada-lovelace-day">
    <title>Women in science: a difficult history | Guardian</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Rebekah Higgett: "As a historian, I am always likely to be suspicious of the use of history to serve particular purposes, whether that is to get more women into or more funding for British science. Laudable though those aims might be, there is a risk that the historical evidence will be selected or distorted to suit the current purpose."]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian science women history education gender politics</dc:subject>
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    <title>Arresting the Unjustly Homeless while they Learn to Code | Medium</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-15T01:33:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://medium.com/weird-future/d19c8db85c2</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This post is your daily reminder that, while people are good at people, they suck at perceiving systems.]]></description>
<dc:subject>homelessness education police policing politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/moynihan-income.html">
    <title>Moynihan and Nixon: How charity didn't begin at home | NY Times</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-12T22:33:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/04/specials/moynihan-income.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I didn't know that Nixon proposed a minimum income plan for families with children in 1970. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics us fap minimumincome book review 1008</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.spur.org/files/voter-guides/SPUR_November_2013_Voter_Guide.pdf">
    <title>November 2013 Voting Guide | SPUR</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-12T16:01:24+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.spur.org/files/voter-guides/SPUR_November_2013_Voter_Guide.pdf</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The local urban planning outfit's recommendations for the upcoming propositions in SF, notably including recommending Yes on B and C, regarding 8 Washington. (PDF.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>sanfrancisco planning politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:93b2a7199683/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/10/11/elaine-wherry-why-i-now-believe-the-glass-ceiling-is-real/?mod=wsj_streaming_latest-headlines">
    <title>Why I Now Believe the Startup Community's Glass Ceiling Is Real | WSJ</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-12T03:54:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerators/2013/10/11/elaine-wherry-why-i-now-believe-the-glass-ceiling-is-real/?mod=wsj_streaming_latest-headlines</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Elaine Wherry: 'she continued: “Right, well, it’s because you’re young and female.” Then she proceeded to warn of the cultures, by country, known to be unfriendly toward female leaders.']]></description>
<dc:subject>programming feminism startup culture politics wsj</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/the-high-cost-for-the-poor-of-using-a-bank.html">
    <title>The High Cost, for the Poor, of Using a Bank | The New Yorker</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-12T02:29:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/10/the-high-cost-for-the-poor-of-using-a-bank.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“An overdraft is essentially a short-term loan, [with an effective APR of] over five thousand per cent.” On why the poor use what look (to those of us with middle class earnings) like expensive financial services. Eye-opening.]]></description>
<dc:subject>banks finance politics economics newyorker</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.gallup.com/poll/165317/republican-party-favorability-sinks-record-low.aspx">
    <title>Republican Party Favorability Sinks to Record Low | Gallup</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-10T01:16:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.gallup.com/poll/165317/republican-party-favorability-sinks-record-low.aspx</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“The GOP's unfavorable rating among Republicans is up eight points from September” um. ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics us republicans</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c0150e81f14a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dont-slam-dc-for-the-shutdown-america-you-sent-these-wackos-here/2013/10/07/7f7f55ca-2f40-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html">
    <title>Don’t slam D.C. for the shutdown, America: You sent these wackos | Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-09T19:26:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dont-slam-dc-for-the-shutdown-america-you-sent-these-wackos-here/2013/10/07/7f7f55ca-2f40-11e3-8906-3daa2bcde110_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["America, you sent these guys here. They represent plenty of you, none of us." -Washington, D.C.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics us washingtondc congress</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/10/03/228869250/shutdown-not-for-political-fundraising">
    <title>Shutdown? Not For Political Fundraising | NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-08T21:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2013/10/03/228869250/shutdown-not-for-political-fundraising</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not stopping during the government shutdown: Democrat begging emails, according to @tomcoates.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics us democrats npr</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:e066352acf3c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-boards-are-all-white-charting-diversity-among-tech-1442532538">
    <title>The Boards Are All White: Charting Diversity Among Tech Directors | Valleywag</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-08T21:41:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://valleywag.gawker.com/the-boards-are-all-white-charting-diversity-among-tech-1442532538</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I made a big fat sad chart about the lack of diversity among the board of directors at top tech companies"]]></description>
<dc:subject>valleywag feminism racism diversity gawker twitter politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/05/228904965/u-s-shutdown-may-be-driving-traffic-to-sugar-daddy-sites">
    <title>U.S. Shutdown May Be Driving Traffic To 'Sugar Daddy' Sites | NPR</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-08T20:35:55+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/10/05/228904965/u-s-shutdown-may-be-driving-traffic-to-sugar-daddy-sites</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Half of the new members are single moms, so we're thinking that it's tied directly to the government shutdown" ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics feminism npr</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nature.com/news/us-antarctic-research-season-is-in-jeopardy-1.13889">
    <title>US Antarctic research season is in jeopardy | Nature News &amp; Comment</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-07T14:51:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nature.com/news/us-antarctic-research-season-is-in-jeopardy-1.13889</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The National Science Foundation (NSF) is likely to cancel the US Antarctic programme’s upcoming field season if the US government shutdown persists through mid-October — jeopardizing hundreds of scientists’ work in glaciology, ecology and astrophysics." via @BasilLeaf]]></description>
<dc:subject>antarctica science politics shutdown nature via:@basilleaf</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:6f9a18c67f6c/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/london-is-special-but-not-that-special.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=2&amp;">
    <title>London Is Special, but Not That Special | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-07T02:00:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/29/opinion/sunday/london-is-special-but-not-that-special.html?pagewanted=all&amp;_r=2&amp;</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“There are more black and Asian people in just one London borough, Newham, than in the whole of Scotland.”  Nonetheless, this op-ed article suggests that London shouldn't get special immigration treatment (even though it admits that anti-immigrant feeling is unjustified).]]></description>
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<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c1764b7ba63d/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/10/a-government-shutdown-a-social-breakdown-201310491015764779.html">
    <title>A government shutdown, a social breakdown | Al Jazeera</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-06T15:56:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/10/a-government-shutdown-a-social-breakdown-201310491015764779.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Today the attack on the poor is no longer cloaked in ideology – it is ideology itself. This ideology is not shared by most Americans, but by those seeking to transform the Republican Party into, as former GOP operative Mike Lofgren describes it, "an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe."' A good read on the philosophy behind the government shutdown.]]></description>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:41e9e18551ca/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/some-economic-consequences-of-the-shutdown/?_r=2&amp;">
    <title>Some Economic Consequences of the Shutdown | NYTimes.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-06T03:40:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/03/some-economic-consequences-of-the-shutdown/?_r=2&amp;</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Furloughed government workers amount to 0.5 percent of the work force who would be counted as unemployed” if unemployment was being counted, which it isn't, because of the shutdown.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us statistics employment politics government economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:c8bde75b5f7e/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://feministinthekitchen.tumblr.com/post/55193335355">
    <title>on groups | ┌∩┐(✿｀へ´ )┌∩┐</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-05T01:37:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://feministinthekitchen.tumblr.com/post/55193335355</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['the reason I’ve stopped saying “most men/some white people/many straight people do X oppressive activity” is because if you’re a member of those groups, I want you to sit there and think, “do I do X? am I a part of that? am I an active part of the problem?”']]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism sexism culture politics language</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1e71231b6761/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/aa818742-2bc2-11e3-a1b7-00144feab7de.html">
    <title>Geeks can be girls | FT.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T22:11:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/aa818742-2bc2-11e3-a1b7-00144feab7de.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the very moment that computer science became central to all our lives – and produced a plethora of high-paying jobs – women vanished." A good read on the Grace Hopper conference, despite the title.]]></description>
<dc:subject>feminism politics technology culture sexism</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:08f559bd9314/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.codeforamerica.org/2013/10/03/coping-with-the-shutdown-federal-data/">
    <title>Coping with the Shutdown: Federal Data | Code for America</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T19:41:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.codeforamerica.org/2013/10/03/coping-with-the-shutdown-federal-data/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Leaving the politics aside for the moment, what’s a civic hacker or data journalist to do when most of the government web and FTP presence is unreachable as well?" You mirror it, if you can.]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics technology us opendata data codeforamerica</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2013/10/mail-miliband-what-does-it-mean-call-jewish-person-un-british">
    <title>The Mail on Miliband: What does it mean to call a Jewish person “un-British”? | New Statesman</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-04T16:03:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2013/10/mail-miliband-what-does-it-mean-call-jewish-person-un-british</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“Not belonging is also a strength: it frees us to say that wherever injustices happen, it's our business too” ]]></description>
<dc:subject>newstatesman dailymail antisemitism culture politics identity belonging</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:1ecb1d9388a5/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10351508/Make-no-mistake-this-is-a-sketch.-Cue-applause.html">
    <title>Make no mistake, this is a sketch. Cue applause | Telegraph</title>
    <dc:date>2013-10-03T15:34:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/10351508/Make-no-mistake-this-is-a-sketch.-Cue-applause.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[“most important of all: a reminder that I married a woman. [Gaze damply at woman, to applause.]” ]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics davidcameron sketch telegraph uk conservatives conference</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://twitter.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-zucks-pro-knowledge-politics-are-just-more-corpo-1350436108">
    <title>Why Zuck's &quot;Pro-Knowledge&quot; Politics Are Just More Corporate Bullshit | Valleywag</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-19T20:47:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://valleywag.gawker.com/why-zucks-pro-knowledge-politics-are-just-more-corpo-1350436108</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['"So um, I dunno. I think it’s hard to affiliate as being either a Democrat or Republican. I’m pro-knowledge economy," Zuckerberg replied, finally settling on the most platitudinous answer possible' - Nitasha Tiku does a nice bit of savaging on Facebook/Zuckerberg/FWD.us]]></description>
<dc:subject>facebook markzuckerberg politics fwd.us pac nitashatiku valleywag</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:66c0444c9255/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://tomslee.net/2013/08/why-the-sharing-economy-isnt.html">
    <title>Why The Sharing Economy Isn't | Whimsley</title>
    <dc:date>2013-09-01T08:45:08+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://tomslee.net/2013/08/why-the-sharing-economy-isnt.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Taskrabbit, airbnb, lyft & co create a lobbying group, pretend it’s a collective ‘movement’ for the common good" On peers.org: "If there is one thing that makes me angry, it is peo­ple appro­pri­at­ing the lan­guage of col­lec­tive and pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics for finan­cial gain. And that’s one thread of what’s going on here."]]></description>
<dc:subject>business economics economy sharing tech peers peers.org airbnb politics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/going-blind-the-coming-satellite-crisis/">
    <title>Going Blind: The Impending Satellite Gap — NOVA Next | PBS</title>
    <dc:date>2013-08-20T21:43:29+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/space/going-blind-the-coming-satellite-crisis/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Why there might not be a US low earth weather satellite within a couple of years. "While the arranged marriage between NOAA, NASA, and the Air Force may have sounded good on paper, the way it was carried out “was flawed from day one,” says Tom Young, former director of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center"]]></description>
<dc:subject>space satellites nasa noaa usaf politics data weather weatherforecasting</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:975943ad1d3a/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.salon.com/2013/07/28/sexy_spring_how_group_sex_will_liberate_iran_china/">
    <title>Sexy spring: How group sex will liberate Iran, China | Salon.com</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-29T16:49:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.salon.com/2013/07/28/sexy_spring_how_group_sex_will_liberate_iran_china/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When Iranian American anthropologist Pardis Mahdavi first visited Tehran in the summer of 2000, she expected to encounter the Iran she grew up imagining."]]></description>
<dc:subject>iran china sex sexuality politics youth</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:d32a95517100/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html">
    <title>British public wrong about nearly everything, survey shows | The Independent</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-10T03:06:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-public-wrong-about-nearly-everything-survey-shows-8697821.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Research shows public opinion often deviates from facts on key social issues including crime, benefit fraud and immigration"]]></description>
<dc:subject>politics news independent poll opinion uk</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:b021716709cf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-rural-tennessee-a-new-way-to-help-hungry-children-a-bus-turned-bread-truck/2013/07/06/c93c5eec-e292-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html">
    <title>In rural Tennessee, a new way to help hungry children: A bus turned bread truck | The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-07T18:45:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/in-rural-tennessee-a-new-way-to-help-hungry-children-a-bus-turned-bread-truck/2013/07/06/c93c5eec-e292-11e2-aef3-339619eab080_story.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["More than 1 in 4 children now depend on government food assistance, a record level of need that has increased the federal budget and changed the nature of childhood for the nation’s poor."]]></description>
<dc:subject>us food politics economics</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:29ec91744acf/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/america-counterinsurgency-threat-home-abroad">
    <title>Domestic lessons learned from foreign wars | The Observer</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-07T12:37:42+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/07/america-counterinsurgency-threat-home-abroad</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Henry Porter quoting Arendt: ‘the boomerang effect of imperialism on the homeland’. Good piece.]]></description>
<dc:subject>guardian politics terrorism surveillance henryporter news</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/all-the-infrastructure-a-tyrant-would-need-courtesy-of-bush-and-obama/276635/">
    <title>All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need| The Atlantic</title>
    <dc:date>2013-07-06T17:40:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/all-the-infrastructure-a-tyrant-would-need-courtesy-of-bush-and-obama/276635/</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Conor Friedersdorf in the Atlantic on the US surveillance state.]]></description>
<dc:subject>us politics surveillance tyranny</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://instapaper.com/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:blech/b:23ceccff3b7d/</dc:identifier>
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    <title>Why the City of Miami Is Doomed to Drown | Rolling Stone</title>
    <dc:date>2013-06-27T05:20:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Miami, as we know it today, is doomed... It's not a question of if. It's a question of when." A sobering read about climate change and Florida.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Of course, white suburban soccer moms are more interested in the intrigue of Snowden’s (ex?)girlfriend. Why should they care? They don’t worry that they will awake some morning and find themselves on the wrong side of the state — and certainly not because “they’re not doing anything wrong,” but rather because they’re not the wrong color, the wrong religion, the wrong ethnicity, the wrong family."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/lost-satellite?single-page-view=true">
    <title>Who Killed The Deep Space Climate Observatory? | Popular Science</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Nearly a decade ago, NASA built an Earth-monitoring satellite that could have observed global warming in action. Then the agency stashed it in a warehouse in Maryland, where it remains to this day." A great piece but an anger-inducing read.]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Bruce Schneier: "Welcome to an Internet without privacy, and we've ended up here with hardly a fight"]]></description>
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    <title>Greenland government falls as voters send warning to mining companies | The Guardian</title>
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    <title>Everything to Extremes | NYTimes</title>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[‘the fusty maxim of “moderation in all things,” which wasn’t so much a wet towel over passion as a caution against single-mindedness.']]></description>
<dc:subject>moderation extreme food television politics comment</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology">
    <title>The Californian Ideology | Wikipedia</title>
    <dc:date>2013-01-14T04:48:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Californian_Ideology</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['Louis Rossetto, former editor and publisher of Wired magazine, vehemently denounced it as an "anal retentive attachment to failed 19th century social and economic analysis".']]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/12/21/john-lanchester/lets-call-it-failure">
    <title>John Lanchester · Let’s call it failure | LRB</title>
    <dc:date>2012-12-31T15:37:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.lrb.co.uk/2012/12/21/john-lanchester/lets-call-it-failure</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Osborne’s single biggest economic ambition was to get the deficit down, but he hasn’t managed it, and has had to abandon his noisily announced target to get rid of most of the deficit in a single parliament. Gather round, children, and take a good look. This is the thing we call failure."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html">
    <title>Pain Continues after War for American Drone Pilot | Spiegel Online</title>
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    <link>http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pain-continues-after-war-for-american-drone-pilot-a-872726.html</link>
    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The stories of drone - sorry, remotely piloted vehicle - operators. Heartbreaking.]]></description>
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    <title>Cheap natural gas doesn’t mean we should stop investing in alternative energy | Slate Magazine</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-16T20:34:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Yes, it’s cheaper now. That doesn’t mean we should stop investing in alternative energy."]]></description>
<dc:subject>energy politics energyefficiency</dc:subject>
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    <title>What happens to women denied abortions? | io9</title>
    <dc:date>2012-11-14T03:41:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>blech</dc:creator><description><![CDATA['There has been no sustained effort to study what happens to women who want abortions but can't get them due to restrictive rules. Until now. These women are called turnaways. A new longitudinal study reveals what happens to their economic position, health, and relationship status after seeking an abortion and being denied it.'

'There is strong evidence that making abortions available will allow women to be healthier, with brighter economic outlooks.']]></description>
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