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		<title>Implications of the Pletka Purge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Roland picks up an interesting piece by Jacob Heilbrunn for the National Interest, describing an ongoing purge of neoconservative intellectuals from the American Enterprise Institute, allegedly instigated by Vice President Danielle Pletka. So far Michael Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/22/implications-of-the-pletka-purge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Drunk with Oilfield Trash</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:44:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sitting in an airport lounge yesterday and got to chatting with a member of the self-described &#8220;oilfield trash&#8221; who was bound for Lagos, and then for an FPSO in the Gulf of Guinea. These are rough and ready &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/14/getting-drunk-with-oilfield-trash/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Oral Nonsex</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/oral-nonsex/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recall it being reported at the height of the sordid and tedious Monica Lewinsky scandal, that Bill Clinton personally felt he had not violated his wedding vows because in his view, receiving fellatio did not constitute adultery. Evidently Clinton &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/05/oral-nonsex/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Armies of the Obsolete</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Light and infrared targeting devices for games. (Photo by Rob Stradling &#124; website) Al Qaeda technicians have apparently pioneered the use of electronics in old SEGA game cartridges for bomb detonators. A smaller precedent than the use of the airliner &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/04/armies-of-the-obsolete/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Against Galt</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:26:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Synova wrote a little post that gets halfway to where I would come down on this perennial parlor game of  the John Galt general strike. Sy recognized that to be successful, such a revolt would realistically be a miserable experience &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/30/against-galt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Man Without a Season</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/20/a-man-without-a-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 00:29:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stéphane Dion, leader of the defeated Canadian Liberal Party, has rather ignominiously resigned his position today. Thereby he becomes the first Liberal Party leader since the 19th century to have never become Prime Minister of Canada. Given his dismal political &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/20/a-man-without-a-season/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Hitchens &amp; Political Irresponsibility</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 16:54:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video of Laura Ingraham interrogating Christopher Hitchens over his rather weakly supported endorsement of Barack Obama for president. Hitch&#8217;s primary position in this chat is that Obama should be supported because he is &#8220;evolving&#8221; toward support of a more aggressive &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/18/christopher-hitchens-political-irresponsibility/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Folly of Heroes</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:22:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a day for indignity. Just when I&#8217;d stopped shaking my head at the image of Paul Krugman accepting the Nobel Prize, I read two of my most cherished heroes offering rather embarrassing endorsements for bad things. Christopher Hitchens, always &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/10/13/the-folly-of-heroes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>John McCain and Sarah Palin: Fairfax Gallery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/john-mccain-and-sarah-palin-fairfax-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ron Hilton caught some great shots at the McCain/Palin rally in Fairfax, Virginia. He was gracious enough to let us post them here for you:]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and the Fate of Criticism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Tattered Hope&#8221; by Nathan Rupert Jason at postpolitical and I often get into testy email arguments about Barack Obama&#8217;s alleged &#8220;arrogance.&#8221; He is quite Greek in the sense that he thinks hubris is the fatal flaw at the heart of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/obama-and-the-fate-of-criticism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Clear Blue Sky</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(NASA) Today is the 11th. The unwelcome anniversary. Everyone remembers where they were when they heard. I was awoken by a phone call on the day. &#8220;The country&#8217;s under attack!&#8221; the phone said. You wake up rather fast when that&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/11/a-clear-blue-sky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Buying Tymoshenko</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the European Union commendably attempts to pull Ukraine closer into the safety of the West, Russia has reportedly earmarked $1 billion to fund suddenly pro-Kremlin Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, against heroically pro-Western President Viktor Yushchenko in the 2010 presidential &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/buying-tymoshenko/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ruining Ramadan in Egypt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ramadan always means new soap operas in the Arab world. I learned today it also means not even thinking about masturbation. A small thing to you perhaps, but in a repressive sexual society where the curves of the female figure &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/ruining-ramadan-in-egypt/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mixed Economies: Efficacy Without Moral Narrative</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:37:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Ian Murchison &#124; website) The nationalization of Fannie &#38; Freddie is often presented as a crisis of faith for the political right, due to its manifest incompatibility with the advertised belief in the &#8220;free market.&#8221; However, Sunder Katwala at &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/mixed-economies-efficacy-without-moral-narrative/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Shattered Idol in the Black Garden</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Rahim Alizadeh) In Verdi&#8217;s opera Nabucco &#8211;the namesake of the western gas pipeline to Europe that holds the promise of partial independence from Russian energy reliance&#8211; the Jewish patriots take the daughter of the Babylonian king hostage, in order &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/09/a-shattered-idol-in-the-black-garden/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Immunizing Sarah Palin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: Tom LeGro) Christopher Hitchens notices a pattern with anti-Palin rumors: their troubling tendency to turn out highly exaggerated or entirely fabricated, in a very short turn. [A]s often as I have forwarded some alarming e-mail about her from a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/08/immunizing-sarah-palin/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Medvedev&#8217;s Caribbean Dream</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A depressingly confused analogy from Medvedev on US aid to Georgia: &#8220;I wonder how they would like it if we sent humanitarian assistance using our navy to countries of the Caribbean that have suffered from the recent hurricanes.&#8221; (AFP) We&#8217;d &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/medvedevs-caribbean-dream/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Fine Figure of a Republican</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:13:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title is what Time Magazine labeled New Jersey&#8217;s Senator William Warren Barbour in 1940. The expression takes on a better curve for Sarah Palin, but it fits the occasion of a very partisan and frankly rather phenomenal speech tonight &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/03/a-fine-figure-of-a-republican/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Declinism as Exceptionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Francis Fukuyama argues in the Financial Times that the United States should have traded European missile defense and/or Kosovar independence in order to pacify a resurgent Russia. This strange proposal of strategic charity work for the Kremlin, is animated by &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/declinism-as-exceptionalism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China and Provincial Secessionism</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extremely interesting post from Seth Weinberger on the opportunity for pulling China in the pro-Georgia camp, after the SCO failed to endorse Russian actions in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Seth is as mystified as I am that the Russian foreign &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/china-and-provincial-secessionism/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Black Signs at the Exhibition</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/black-signs-at-the-exhibition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:56:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The IMF has come through for Georgia in an enormous way, approving a $750 million credit line for the beleaguered republic. Beyond the much needed aid, it&#8217;s a powerful political reminder for Russia of the gargantuan economic advantage the West &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/02/black-signs-at-the-exhibition/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Scent of the Scene</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/the-scent-of-the-scene/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 02:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve bought a bottle of air-freshener in at least five years. With my parents unexpectedly in town, I felt the need to conceal cigar smoke and the general bachelorness of the joint. So I bought a bottle &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/the-scent-of-the-scene/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Minor Scandals Can Help</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/minor-scandals-can-help/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:57:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently the teenage pregnancy of Sarah Palin&#8217;s daughter Bristol has excited social conservatives even more about the candidate (for the when-it-counts demonstration of opposition to abortion). According to Grover Norquist, the soc-cons are &#8220;over the moon&#8221; in their support. That&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/minor-scandals-can-help/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To be the King of Libya</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/king-of-libya/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/king-of-libya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 18:41:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Muammar al-Gaddafi was a student at the Benghazi Academy in the 1960s, he swore to destroy monarchism in Libya. In September 1969, when his military coup finally overthrew the monarchy, Libya was proclaimed a republic by Gaddafi. Shortly thereafter, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/king-of-libya/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welcoming the World to Wasilla</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/welcoming-the-world-to-wasilla/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:43:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo: Michael Levesque It seems the international media is crawling all over the tiny town Sarah Palin began her political career in. Being fond of leaders for whom membership in the general public is a recent memory, I think it&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/welcoming-the-world-to-wasilla/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Blog Graphics Retrospective</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was searching for an image on my backup drive today and came across a cache of header graphics I&#8217;d thrown together for posts over the years. The diversity of subjects was kind of interesting as a gallery. Here&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/31/blog-graphics-retrospective/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Unacceptable Acceptance</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:59:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, here is an embarrassing prospect. It seems the Republican leadership may boycott the Republican convention in Minnesota, for fear of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. The top elected Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, was already boycotting. But now &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/an-unacceptable-acceptance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin &#8211; Kuwait Gallery</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here at ASHC we get an enormous amount of traffic from people looking for Sarah Palin photographs. My friend Jason over on postpolitical says he&#8217;s experiencing the same phenomenon on his blog, and we took to calling it the hunt &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/30/sarah-palin-kuwait-gallery/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>War of Conquest</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of days into Russian-declared, universally unrecognized independence (excluding Hamas and Belarus), South Ossetian officials have expressed their desire to be annexed by Russia. The brave new defenders of Russian imperialism on the American Left have thus suddenly found &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/war-of-conquest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Rise of the Governess</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-rise-of-the-governess/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way back in February 2007, when I was still writing for postpolitical, an obscure little blog popped up pitching Sarah Palin for the Vice Presidency. At the time few were that familiar with Sarah&#8217;s record or wise enough to predict &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/29/the-rise-of-the-governess/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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