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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>Family in Trouble</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/family-in-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MikeR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[American Daily The single most important building block of any nation is her families. Destroy that and you can easily lay claim to a nation&#8217;s soul. I agree. I think we have failed to maintain the nuclear family and lost &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/23/family-in-trouble/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Going to Tbilisi?</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:18:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Russian units are on the move again in Georgian territory, apparently in violation of the truce agreement. One Russian soldier in a large convoy shouted an ominous flirtation to a press photographer outside Gori, hopefully in jest or lust: &#8220;Come &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/08/13/going-to-tbilisi/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps we&#8217;re turning into Victorians</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/perhaps-were-turning-into-victorians/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 06:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: What I Learned About the World from Reading Historical Romances. I learned that sometimes people get *more* uptight over time rather than less. Victorians, according to custom and any number of novels, were concerned with propriety above all. Certain &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/11/perhaps-were-turning-into-victorians/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Home &amp; Land Defense</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/home-land-defense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a moment in Mark Steyn&#8217;s book America Alone, where he relates the truism that we&#8217;ve all experienced conversations with a mild-mannered, educated and seemingly rational person from the Arab world, where quite unexpectedly they say something nutty in the &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/02/08/home-land-defense/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unfortunate cultural dominance</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/unfortunate-cultural-dominance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Synova</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[youtube zYwlRH7R6DE&#38;feature] 18 years ago when I was in the Philippines a somewhat similar song was popular. The song advised, &#8220;Not all the World is America.&#8221; Well, I figured then that the point made was a good one. It&#8217;s a &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/22/unfortunate-cultural-dominance/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Lonely Candidate</title>
		<link>http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/the-lonely-candidate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2008 00:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Byron York has a fairly instructive anecdote from South Carolina on Fred Thompson: Last night I talked with Cyndi Mosteller, a strong social conservative who headed the Charleston County Republican Party from 2003 to 2007 and who supports McCain. When &#8230; <a href="http://asecondhandconjecture.com/index.php/2008/01/21/the-lonely-candidate/">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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