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		<title>Review: The Ghost Writer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If The Ghost Writer, now playing in theaters, does not feel a little familiar then you are not paying attention to politics, particularly British politics. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was widely viewed within Great Britain as George W. Bush’s stooge and lackey. It seemed that whenever Bush said “jump”, Blair would respond with, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/03/review_the_ghost_writer.html</link>
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		<title>Not exactly Waterloo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What a curious analogy by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint: if Republicans and others opposed to “socialism” can stop President Obama and Democrats in Congress from passing health care reform, it will be Obama’s Waterloo. He will be doomed to finish out an ineffectual term, kind of like Jimmy Carter.

Most of us Americans have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/03/not_exactly_waterloo.html</link>
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		<title>Review: Arranged (2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arranged may be a chick flick. It’s hard for me to say for sure because, alas, I am not a chick. Its story is quite simple: two new female teachers in New York City are assigned right out of college to teach in the same public school and they become friends. This hardly sounds like [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/03/review_arranged_2007.html</link>
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		<title>Virginia is a socialist state</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh Lord, I am worried! I have lived in Virginia for more than twenty years but until recently, I had not realized I was living in a socialist state. Why? Because Virginia is one of four uppity states not content to be just ordinary states but which insisted on calling themselves “commonwealths”.
This is quite alarming. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/03/virginia_is_a_socialist_state.html</link>
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		<title>Review: Empires of the Sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four years ago, I reviewed the book Michaelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King. King’s look at life in and around Rome at the time the Sistine Chapel was painted was fascinating and insightful. It was often revolting to realize how bestial people were back then. King noted, for example, the running of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/03/review_empires_of_the_sea.html</link>
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		<title>The Homestead: how to spend a thousand dollars delightfully without hardly trying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have decided that if heaven exists, it should be a lot like The Homestead.
The Homestead is a resort that sits nestled among the Appalachians in Hot Springs, Virginia. It is in fact a very old resort. The first building for visitors was constructed near the hot springs in 1766, when we were not even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/03/the_homestead.html</link>
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		<title>Psychiatrists agree: Republicans are insane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, I wrote that Republicans were putting the “bye” in bipartisanship. A commenter told me I was being premature because President Obama had only been in office a month. A year later, I bet the same commenter would now agree with me. You cannot have bipartisanship unless both parties can come together on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/psychiatrists_agree_republicans_are_insane.html</link>
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		<title>So bad, it’s good … and mesmerizing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[YouTube: a treasure trove of the good, the bad, the indifferent, the mediocre and the ugly. Actually, I rarely visit the place. The few videos I do watch on YouTube come as recommendations. This one appeared in my wife’s LiveJournal, posted by a friend of hers. I happened to peer over her shoulder and asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/so_bad_its_good_and_mesmerizing.html</link>
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		<title>Citizens are united against Citizens United</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trying to find bipartisanship these days on any political issue is virtually impossible. So when I see a poll where there is strong agreement between Democrats, Republicans and Independents, I take note. What do eighty percent of very polarized Americans agree on? They agree the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/citizens_are_united_against_citizens_united.html</link>
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		<title>Out and Equal and I’m confused</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks back I received some LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) diversity training. Frankly, I figured the seminar would be a skate. While I am your typical heterosexual white male, it’s not like I have not known people in the LGBT community. As a Unitarian Universalist, I have also helped our church become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/out_and_equal_and_im_confused.html</link>
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		<title>Civil marriage is still a civil right</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps to really appreciate Valentine’s Day, you have to be single or divorced. When you are an old married dude like me, Valentine’s Day has a perfunctory feel to it. Of course, I get my wife a card, some chocolate and sometimes even some flowers. She does likewise. It should be a special day since [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/civil_marriage_is_still_a_civil_right.html</link>
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		<title>Global warming morons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) lampooned, “It’s going to keep snowing in D.C. until Al Gore cries ‘uncle’.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), observing the record snowfall in the Washington D.C. area wonders where Al Gore was to defend his thesis on global warming against this outrageous assault by winter. Global climate warming skeptic Jim [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/global_warming_morons.html</link>
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		<title>Feds bravely telecommute while the government “closes”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The recent set of snowstorms here in the Washington D.C. metropolitan area made many headlines. It’s not often that federal government offices shuts down at all, let alone for four days straight. Newspapers were full of reports on the cost of the storm including this one: $100M a day in lost productivity because federal workers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/feds_bravely_telecommute_while_the_government_closes.html</link>
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		<title>Taking Chrome for a Spin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does it really matter which browser you use? So many of us spend our lives in a browser that it is reasonable to think the answer is yes. Nevertheless, all browsers pretty much do the same thing. Once familiarity sets in, you have to have a compelling reason to move from one browser to another.
In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.occams-razor.info/2010/02/taking_chrome_for_a_spin.html</link>
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		<title>Snowmageddon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After nineteen inches or so of snow back on December 19-20 of last year, most of us Washingtonians had figured we had seen the last big snow dump for a while. Based on my experience we could expect to wait another five to eight years before we would get a snowstorm that would exceed a [...]]]></description>
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