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		<title>Revolution Speeds Evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joesmith</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=1183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While listening to BBC news coverage of Iran on the radio this morning, the words “Revolution speeds evolution” came to my head. At the time, the words fit the current Iran situation very well and time will tell whether there is a revolution, a new election, or crushed hopes and lives. Since it rang in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Thinking Man’s Books to Read During an Economic Slump</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/10-thinking-man%e2%80%99s-books-to-read-during-an-economic-slump</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 19:08:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>triageman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, New York Times reporter Motoko Rich wrote an article about how during a recession, what people want is a happy book, with a happy ending. Incidentally, book sales have soared in the romance novel genre, and, as the masses know, the vampire love story genre. Mass-market paperbacks fly off the shelves of your Walgreens, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Extinction of Gods</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/the-extinction-of-gods</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>triageman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems there is a shortage of gods in the universe today. Here on earth, if you mention the name Baal, Njord, Horus or even Krishna, people will look at you like your nuts, or like you’re alluding to someone out of a fairly tale. These gods, now considered to be blatant myths, are basically [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Return of Cool</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/the-return-of-cool</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FuriousXor</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=1095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Times are hard, money is short, things seem to be spinning out of control. The new President is trying to fix things but these solutions may be too little too late. There is something the President has brought to the table that has been lacking&#8230;.a sense of cool. Look back to the old Hollywood movies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Non-Random Rant:  An Argument Against Using the Word “Random”</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/random</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>triageman</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Jeremy Benishek and Kyle Romeis Drinking Courvoisier on a random Tuesday night can lead to some random entertaining conversations. But can we truly say that this particular Tuesday night was a “random” night? Or can we say that we had “random” conversation? What about that Tuesday would make it random, and likewise, what about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SCREED FROM THE ROAD #4</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/screed-from-the-road-4-the-haul-from-hellnight-terrors-on-highway-25-revisited-wild-eyed-plowing-through-the-hell-freezing-whiteoutdelirium-in-the-desertwelcome-to-tucson</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sagebrush became herds of buffalo stirring on the shoulder of the narrowing road, leafless trees jumped to life like scarecrows flinging themselves at the Jeep in my tainted peripheral vision...]]></description>
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		<title>THE WORLD IS SHIT — I’M A PIG</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Zieher</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing is quite as appalling as the choosy eater. A grey and white and yellow plate— well done mush, in essence, drives me to spasms. My patience blanches watching a young woman carefully pick every green pea from her tiny platter of airplane provisions. Once at a museum reception I watched a man take a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jefferson Must be Cringing in his Grave</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/jefferson-must-be-cringing-in-his-grave</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Benishek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Over 200 years ago, in 1802, Thomas Jefferson made a prophetically inferential statement apropos the US banking system. As we see our banks faltering, our credit lines freezing, our housing markets crumbling, and enough corporate greed to pass out $18 billion worth of bonuses with government allocated funds, we should review Jefferson’s ethics on our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Groundhog Day!</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/happy-groundhog-day</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Siercks</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You cannot put that on the test. That word has two meanings. The students could become confused. That word was not in the textbook. That word was not from this lesson. That word is not used in the same sentence as the textbook. You used a picture different from the textbook. The sentences are in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SUPERBOWL XLIII</title>
		<link>http://pith.net/pith/observations/essays/superbowl-xliii</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Dick</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://pith.net/pith/?p=429</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[SUPERBOWL XLIII, THE EPITOME OF THE ELECTRIFIED AMERICAN ARENA &#038; THE DEBAUCHED WORLD OF SPORTS TODAY…WHAT ARE MILLION DOLLAR ADS GOOD FOR WHEN NOBODY HAS ANY MONEY? …WELCOME TO THE GENERATION OF THE UNEMPLOYED &#038; IN DEBT. Yes, once again Super Sunday has rolled through and left a path of shameless overpriced advertising and a [...]]]></description>
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