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		<title>Risk and Reward</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/18/risk-and-reward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us, when we hear the phrase &#8220;risk and reward&#8221; think of Wall Street.  Or business in general. But in reality, &#8220;risk and reward&#8221; affect us throughout our lives. Our parents take a risk when they conceive us.  They &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/18/risk-and-reward/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Riding?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/free-riding/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alex Taborrak has a story: How an Economist Thinks Over the weekend a crew came round my neighborhood offering to paint house numbers on the curb. Large bold curb numbers, they pointed out, make it easier for emergency service workers &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/05/free-riding/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>George Lakoff: Neo-Syndicalist</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/23/george-lakoff-neo-syndicalist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the weekend I read with fascination William Saletan&#8217;s review of the new offering from George Lakoff, &#8220;The Political Mind,&#8221; and was struck by the remarkable similarities between it and the revolutionary syndicalism espoused during the prior fin de siècle. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/06/23/george-lakoff-neo-syndicalist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>What Is ASHC?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/17/what-is-ashc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There seems to be some confusion on the part of some as to exactly what sort of place ASHC is: I was rather surprised to read this dubious and scornful appraisal of Michael Yon&#8217;s Wallstreet Journal editorial at A Second &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/04/17/what-is-ashc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Free Will</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a philosophy student, issues of free will were some of the most complex and intriguing that I studied. Is free will real or a chimera? If real, is it always applicable? How do we judge such questions? At one &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/free-will/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom, because you don&#8217;t know what it is not to have it.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:31:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For your viewing pleasure, watch Ayaan Hirsi Ali effortlessly dismantle the typical leftist tropes thrown at her in an interview with Avi Lewis (Naomi Klein&#8217;s husband). The quote serving as the title comes across as venomously pointed when read, but &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/you-grew-up-in-freedom-and-you-can-spit-on-freedom-because-you-dont-know-what-it-is-not-to-have-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Wildness Lies in Wait</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:12:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lance</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The commonest kind of trouble is that it is nearly reasonable, but not quite. Life is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/the-wildness-lies-in-wait/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Libertarian Timeline</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/19/libertarian-timeline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 20:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As told by Mother Jones &#8230; so yeah, it&#8217;s a little, umm, &#8220;slanted.&#8221; My favorite distortion: 1977: The Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, is founded in San Francisco with funding from oil baron Charles G. Koch. The name comes &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/19/libertarian-timeline/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I don&#8217;t like other people telling me what to do.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/i-dont-like-other-people-telling-me-what-to-do/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Dec 2007 17:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amen. One of the reasons I abhor communitarianism (and tend to see my political philosophy as the opposite of that) is because it vests communitarian thinkers with the self appointed power to tell me (and others) what to do. Provided, &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/12/05/i-dont-like-other-people-telling-me-what-to-do/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Torturous Dilemma</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/02/a-torturous-dilemma/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Nov 2007 18:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In light of the recent discussion about torture around here, this little thought experiment seems appropriate and perhaps informative. If you don&#8217;t think that torture is ever a good choice, then read to the end of this post &#8212; you &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2007/11/02/a-torturous-dilemma/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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