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		<title>Donald Rumsfeld Is Old, Thinks Gay Marriage Could Lead To Polygamy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from The Cassandra Files: Quick! Name a former Bush-era Secretary of Defense from whom you'd take moral advice. Easy, right? Donald Rumsfeld, obvs. While it is beyond this blogger's comprehension why anyone would choose to interview Mr. Rumsfeld in 2013, let alone to ask him about marriage equality, it is nonetheless true that Larry King [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3911&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An economist&#039;s mea culpa: I relied on Reinhart and Rogoff </title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Quartz: Ken Rogoff is an economist who has always been kind to me, and for whom I have deep respect. And I have no animus toward Carmen Reinhart. Nevertheless, I hope there has been a nightmarish quality to the last few days of what Quartz writer Matt Phillips called a “bone-crunching social media pile-on that [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3901&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Night Music Blogging &#8211; Can&#8217;t Hold Us (Macklemore &amp; Ryan Lewis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 05:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I&#8217;m worn out. The seemingly relentless onslaught of bad news was hard to believe. While I have had a number of strong reactions to the week&#8217;s events, I don&#8217;t feel it&#8217;s time to go into them. Instead, I&#8217;ll ask you to keep those who&#8217;ve lost loved ones in your [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3879&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Excel</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 04:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from The Baseline Scenario: By James Kwak I spent the past two days at a financial regulation conference in Washington (where I saw more BlackBerries than I have seen in years—can't lawyers and lobbyists afford decent phones?). In his remarks on the final panel, Frank Partnoy mentioned something I missed when it came out [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3875&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Price of Carbon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 05:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Clearing House for Environmental Course Material: ClimateReality Published on Mar 13, 2013 http://ClimateRealityProject.org - Narrated by Reggie Watts. We are all paying the price of carbon pollution. It's time to put a price on carbon and make the polluters stop the carbon destruction. Global Climate Change http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre130 Environmental Justice http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre145 Environment Ethics http://courses.dce.harvard.edu/~envre120 [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3871&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Krugman on the broader implications of the Cypriot haircut</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 03:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paul Krugman made a pretty strong indictment against international finance today. Anyone disagree? (I don&#8217;t.) Let me make a broader point: we’ve now seen three island nations around Europe become huge international banking hubs relative to their GDPs, then get into crisis because their domestic economies don’t have the resources to bail out those metastasized [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3859&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guardian: &#039;White House Officials ... Gave Strong Indications The President Is Inclined To Approve The Keystone XL Pipeline&#039; &#124; ThinkProgress</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Clearing House for Environmental Course Material: http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/03/16/1730621/guardian-white-house-officials-gave-strong-indications-the-president-is-inclined-to-approve-the-keystone-xl-pipeline/ By Joe Romm on Mar 16, 2013 at 11:18 am WashPost: “EPA likely to delay climate rules for new power plants” The Obama Administration has, tragically, signaled it may retreat on two major climate issues. The UK Guardian reported Friday: Barack Obama’s grand vision of action [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3852&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mayor Bloomberg’s Big Gulp ban is right out.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 03:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s big soda ban was invalidated today, just one day before it  was set to go into effect.  The judge who made the decision stated that the rule was &#8220;arbitrary and capricious.&#8221;  (The word &#8220;inconceivable&#8221; came to mind in hearing this explanation, which is a sure sign it&#8217;s time to look up word meanings &#8212; [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dystopianpresent.wordpress.com&#038;blog=15570699&#038;post=3798&#038;subd=dystopianpresent&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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