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		<title>How Blogs Failed the War in Georgia</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/19/how-blogs-failed-the-war-in-georgia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Columbia Journalism Review asked me to write an essay criticizing blogger coverage of the War in Georgia. As I&#8217;m sure you can imagine, I was scathing. While this wasn’t necessarily surprising—after all, these blogs all talk in a big circle, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/19/how-blogs-failed-the-war-in-georgia/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Support Citizen&#8217;s Media: A Challenge Grant</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/12/support-citizens-media-a-challenge-grant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 02:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Official friend-of-Registan.net Sean-Paul Kelley, of The Agonist fame, has set forth an offer I simply cannot refuse: He is willing to pitch in $1000, if I can raise the remainder of my costs for going to Afghanistan August 22. That &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/12/support-citizens-media-a-challenge-grant/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Counterintuiting the FATA</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/counterintuiting-the-fata/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted first at Registan.net, the web&#8217;s best source of news and analysis of Central Asia and the Caucasus. My friend Jeb Koogler and I co-wrote an op-ed in Thursday&#8217;s Christian Science Monitor, titled, &#8220;Myths in Al Qaeda&#8217;s &#8216;home&#8217;.&#8221; This matters &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/10/counterintuiting-the-fata/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Putting My Money Where My Mouth Is</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/06/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging can bring about some amazing opportunities. Through my involvement with Global Voices I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to meet some extraordinary people working very hard for the basic right to speak their minds—something I routinely take for granted. It is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/06/putting-my-money-where-my-mouth-is/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Hated Become the Hateful</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/04/the-hated-become-the-hateful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jesse Helms has died today. And I have lost track of the number of gay friends who have written me congratulatory or celebratory emails and IMs. It really is terrible—yes, the man opposed our right to an equal stake in &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/04/the-hated-become-the-hateful/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Just America</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/01/its-not-just-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Budapest is fun. What&#8217;s also fun is when Lufthansa cancels your flight to Frankfurt on the tarmac, then spends so many hours making you wait in line you miss other, useful connections and wind up on some Air France flight &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/07/01/its-not-just-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Hungary Hungary Hippies</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/24/hungary-hungary-hippies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pic: simplistic political activism at the Blaha Lujla metro stop in Central Budapest. My own thoughts on the matter are here. And no, Michael, the Gellert baths were not as molest-y as you made them out to be. Rather, the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/24/hungary-hungary-hippies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Leaving</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/21/im-leaving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[But not forevs. Tomorrow I hope on a plane and fly to Budapest, Hungary, for a well-deserved break from the grunt and grind of every day. At the tail end of the week, I shall be attending the Global Voices &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/21/im-leaving/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Forgive the Self-Promotion</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/27/forgive-the-self-promotion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 05:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I honestly don&#8217;t have the time to reformat everything for several cross-posts, so this is a summary of posts at my other blog, Registan.net, where I&#8217;ve been discussing some interesting topics related to counterinsurgency and reconstruction in Afghanistan, as well &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/27/forgive-the-self-promotion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Apropos of Nothing, I Had to Post This</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/apropos-of-nothing-i-had-to-post-this/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:23:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This came courtesy a post on Registan.net, the blog where I spend the majority of my brain power. There&#8217;s some really cool stuff up there this week, discussing stereotyping, historical context, the downed Georgian drone, and Afghanistan&#8217;s most famous cover &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/24/apropos-of-nothing-i-had-to-post-this/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wonders of the Midwest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/the-wonders-of-the-midwest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 05:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since I moved to the Midwest four-point-five long months ago, I&#8217;ve been amazed at the subtle difference that occasionally make me feel like I&#8217;m in another country. Maybe Arlington, VA is just too damned humorless, but there are random &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/23/the-wonders-of-the-midwest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Socio-cultural approach to tribal militancy</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/a-socio-cultural-approach-to-tribal-militancy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quite unexpectedly, I&#8217;ve found myself in an ongoing debate with William McCallister on the utility of pushing a counterinsurgency through the tribal areas of Pakistan. I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s really a debate, though, so much as a discussion, as we &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/10/a-socio-cultural-approach-to-tribal-militancy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>About Josh: The most frustrating blogger you&#8217;ve never heard of</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/about-josh-the-most-frustrating-blogger-youve-never-heard-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 15:18:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Foust</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, my name is Josh. After writing here for many months, Lance finally asked me to do an &#8220;about me&#8221; thing. That was certainly kind of him. I like to write about government policy, though not domestically (this is not &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/about-josh-the-most-frustrating-blogger-youve-never-heard-of/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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