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		<title>Apple&#8217;s Ping Sows the Seeds of Facebook&#8217;s Demise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Facebook is the cool site to hate these days, because while you just know they are going to come up with yet another appalling way to violate your privacy, you keep going back, because, well, all your friends are already there. It&#8217;s like a giant party that no one is having very much fun at, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ECU Graduate Certificate in Finance &#8211; FINISHED!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thursday, I took my last exam in my graduate certificate program at East Carolina University. It only took two and a half years to complete a four course sequence, but I&#8217;m done at last! Looking back at my original post on the program, I realize that my personal and career objectives have changed, and that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Been away for a while</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My host (Hi Andy!) was changing ISPs, and I knew I was going to have to change my DNS information, but I never got around to doing so, so the blog has been offline for a while. Sorry about that. We&#8217;re back after 59 days of downtime (according to Google), absolutely none of which was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Boom and Bust Cycle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, especially if you&#8217;re a long-dead economist, you have to climb down from your ivory tower and speak to the youth of today in a language that they can understand. In this music video, two giants of economics break down their differing views on how to fix what ails us when it comes to boom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>California Teen Shoots Self in Testicles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has to be more to this story, but MercuryNews.com only has a short blurb about an unnamed teen who walked into a Vallejo emergency room with a gunshot wound to his most private of parts. I&#8217;d make a joke, but they kind of make themselves, don&#8217;t they?]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Classy, Lincoln County!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the &#8220;only in North Carolina&#8221; file, 30-year-old Richard Peterson had a meeting with his probation officer, but he didn&#8217;t show up. Instead, his probation officer turned on the TV, and was stunned to see his missing charge bragging about a one night stand with a stripper on &#8220;The Jerry Springer Show&#8221;. Peterson&#8217;s stunt earned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mike Celizic: CBS Wrong With Tebow Ad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mike Celizic of NBCSports.com has an interesting post on CBS&#8217;s decision to accept anti-abortion advertising from conservative evangelical group Focus On The Family featuring University of Florida football star Tim Tebow. He&#8217;s dead on when he says that the only reason CBS is taking this ad is that the market is soft for advertising in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers are tools of Satan!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine, if you will, a list of life&#8217;s make-or-break decisions. Choose well, and you find eternal bliss with a loving God. But stray from the one true path, and you will burn for all time in the lake of fire. The Watchtower has a few examples of these critical moments in the life of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware the spinal trap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[[Note: This post is not the work of the usual author of this blog. Simon Singh was recently successfully sued for libel in England by the British Chiropractic Association for publishing the following article about the dangers of chiropractic treatment. In order to ensure a wider dissemination of the information that the lawsuit seeks to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Time, No Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick update to say I&#8217;m not dead. I&#8217;m going to make some changes around here soon, so watch this space. &#8211;V]]></description>
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