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	<title>A Second Hand Conjecture &#187; 1980s</title>
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		<title>When the Future is Boring</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/when-the-future-is-boring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Pollard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Neal Stephenson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems the marriage of David Pollard and Amy Taylor is heading toward divorce, due to Pollard&#8217;s virtual affair with a virtual prostitute, uncovered by a virtual private detective hired by Taylor. It occurs to me that the key thing &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/11/15/when-the-future-is-boring/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Atari Firefox</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/01/atari-firefox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I must have dumped fifty bucks in change into this laserdisc game in early-80s arcades. It was not nearly as easy as the chap playing it makes it look.]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking Terrorism Markets</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/breaking-drug-terrorism-markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[al Qaeda]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[cartel]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Farah notes that with the Al Qaeda leadership now dead or in flight from Iraq, we might be on the verge of a replication the experience of the Andean drug wars of the 1980s. In that situation, the death &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/13/breaking-drug-terrorism-markets/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Night of the Comet</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/night-of-the-comet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 00:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://asecondhandconjecture.com/?p=2434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well look at this. An entire fan site devoted to Night of the Comet. The film that answers the question of what would happen if two cute 80s valley girls were the last people alive in postapocalyptic L.A. Greatness, is &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/night-of-the-comet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ouch, Ouch, Ouch.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/ouch-ouch-ouch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:25:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Frank Luntz]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video clip of Sean Hannity asking Frank Luntz&#8217;s group of Democratic Obama supporters to name one (1) specific accomplishment of their candidate. They all fail embarrassingly and resort to offering Obama&#8217;s personality characteristics as achievements. One young girl does manage &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/05/ouch-ouch-ouch/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Conservative Trash Television</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/30/conservative-trash-television/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 10:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1980s]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morton Downey Jr.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebecca De Mornay]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[song]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tangerine Dream]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember in the 80s when there were these bizarre quasi-political trash shows with psychopathic screaming hosts on television and the radio? They were something like a combination of Rush Limbaugh and Jerry Springer. Here&#8217;s video of two of &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/30/conservative-trash-television/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Privatization Under Thatcher</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/20/privatization-under-thatcher/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:46:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Short video clip on Maggie&#8217;s privatization efforts in the 1980s, and the intellectual rationale behind expanding the investor class. It&#8217;s not about creating prosperity, it&#8217;s about educating a nation in what makes prosperity possible.]]></description>
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