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		<title>When Crackpots War</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/when-crackpots-war/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:30:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happened into a video on YouTube alleging that Ronpaul is actually a &#8220;luciferian&#8221; member of the dastardly and super-secret Illuminati / Freemason / Roman Catholic / CFR world conspiracy. Many Ronpaulists of course support Paul because they believe him to &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/18/when-crackpots-war/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bleh, Sullivan.</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/05/bleh-sullivan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Foreign affairs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just when I was thinking that Andrew Sullivan must have hit some sort of moral and intellectual bottom by now, I read his retrospective on neoconservatism. It turns out the philosophy was actually a vast Zionist conspiracy: The closer you &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2009/02/05/bleh-sullivan/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of Nutritionism Suffers a Setback</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/21/the-cult-of-nutritionism-suffers-a-setback/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/21/the-cult-of-nutritionism-suffers-a-setback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Health Care]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pseudoscience]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[vitamin supplements]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(photo: gualtiero) In a fine blow to the pseudoscientific cult of nutritionism, an intensive study conducted by the National Institutes of Health applied the same laboratory standards to vitamin supplements as are routinely applied to pharmaceuticals. Unsurprisingly, the researchers found &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/12/21/the-cult-of-nutritionism-suffers-a-setback/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Another Palin Smear Campaign Fails</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/another-palin-smear-campaign-fails/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/another-palin-smear-campaign-fails/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[divorce]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Turns out the allegation of the Leftblogs that Palin associate Scott Richter was concealing an extramarital affair with Sarah, was just another desperate conspiratorial invention. TSG uncovers the exceedingly boring and ordinary divorce documents Richter filed a sealing motion for. &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/09/06/another-palin-smear-campaign-fails/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>After the &#8220;Last Chance&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/02/after-the-last-chance/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/02/after-the-last-chance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably noticed that the catchphrase &#8220;last chance&#8221; (often in all caps) conspicuously appears again and again in the arguments of many Ronpaulists. Indeed, the phrase is repeated by them almost as frequently as Ronpaul&#8217;s name itself, as a kind &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/02/after-the-last-chance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Silly Season: A Continuing Saga</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/the-silly-season-a-continuing-saga/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/the-silly-season-a-continuing-saga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MichaelW</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Election 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[MichaelW's Page]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA["Daisy" ad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why are the letters &#8216;NIG&#8217; on the child&#8217;s pajamas?&#8221; Asks a commenter — &#8220;Tom&#8221; — on my post about the new Hillary Clinton commercial, the one that shows several children sleeping and then Clinton taking a national security phone call &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/03/01/the-silly-season-a-continuing-saga/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>That Nightmare Ticket</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/that-nightmare-ticket/</link>
		<comments>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/that-nightmare-ticket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sadly, Mike Huckabee remains in the race in order to distort it. One has to wonder if the increasingly paranoid crypto-theocrat&#8217;s gambit to become McCain&#8217;s Vice Presidential nominee succeeds, how substantially will it depress mainstream conservative turnout? I&#8217;d say pretty &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/04/that-nightmare-ticket/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby Fischer Dies</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/bobby-fischer-dies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years the answer to the question &#8220;can you respect a raving lunatic?&#8221; the great ex-American chessmaster died of an unknown ailment in Iceland. Here&#8217;s a splendid little video of moments from his greatest triumph, before deranged conspiracy theories and &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/18/bobby-fischer-dies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Fall of Paul?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/the-fall-of-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Around the Web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like the revelations of racism and conspiratorial paranoia in The New Republic may have had a profound effect on the once fanatical Ron Paul movement. The Girl in Short Shorts notes something: &#8220;Now today, for the first time &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/16/the-fall-of-paul/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Age of Counterknowledge</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/the-age-of-counterknowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damian Thompson at the Daily Telegraph takes a trenchant look at the peculiar popularity and spread of preposterous conspiracy theories in mainstream modern culture. A development he blames on a Ballardian lust for sensation, the spread of the multiculturalist idea &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/15/the-age-of-counterknowledge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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