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		<title>&#8220;The Economist&#8221; Lands Out of Bounds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:10:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even the best golfer takes the occasional inexplicably bad swing at a perfectly teed-up ball when his concentration lapses.  Humans being all too fallible, similar lapses mar many other of our ventures, a recent case in point being The Economist&#8216;s enthusiastic citation &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/the-economist-lands-out-of-bounds/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=480&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Support Your Local Union, Not Your Union Local</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 08:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Professor N. Gregory Mankiw points his readers to a brief interview with his colleague Richard Freeman on the topic of labor unions, on which subject Prof. Freeman is a recognized authority. The good professor believes that unions accomplish two desirable ends. &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/support-your-local-union-not-your-union-local/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=458&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Washington&#8217;s Deficit Attention Disorder: The Real Fiscal Illusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 23:39:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen&#8217;s latest New York Times column proposes to explain the frightening state of the federal government&#8217;s finances as a manifestation of &#8220;fiscal illusion,&#8221; a term used generally to describe a supposed inability of taxpayers to discern the full extent &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/washingtons-deficit-attention-disorder-the-real-fiscal-illusion/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=438&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solidarity Forever</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 22:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your humble correspondent is utterly shocked to discover that ultra-rich Arianna Huffington has amassed her enormous fortune through the complete exploitation of her labor force, many of whom are paid nothing at all, enabling this malefactrix of great wealth to &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/solidarity-forever/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=433&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blue-State Economics</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The City of San Francisco, always at or near the forefront of social engineering, offers its residents cash payments of $125 to $200 for installing &#8220;low-flow&#8221; toilets (1.28 gallons per flush as opposed to the federal standard of 1.6 gpf) &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/blue-state-economics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=418&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Koch:Krugman :: Moriarty:Holmes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you found yourself wondering lately about those mysterious and suddenly much-discussed Koch Brothers? Wonder no more. Your humble correspondent has performed a background check on one of those brothers, David Koch, and found him to be wily indeed. Trained &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/kochkrugman-moriartyholmes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=403&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Pays for Public Employees&#8217; Benefits?</title>
		<link>http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/who-pays-for-public-employees-benefits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Forbes, shamelessly chumming the waters of the internet with link bait, currently hosts a blog post working another variation on the eternal &#8220;lying Republicans&#8221; theme. The claim this time is that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is either a liar or &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/who-pays-for-public-employees-benefits/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=373&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chicken and Waffles!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Feb 2011 08:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Off the menu at UC Irvine.  On the menu at Sandy McHoots Speaks Out.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=370&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hatred vs. Anger in Political Argument</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having heard the President’s call for civil discourse in Tucson, I rouse myself from blogging torpor to propose an explanation of why the entire back-and-forth over our impolitic politics is both endless and pointless. It advances no coherent point because &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2011/01/14/hatred-vs-anger-in-political-argument/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=365&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Support the Witchcraft-Dabbler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 02:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Television irrlevancy Bill Maher aspires to viewership by threatening to make available a long series of video clips of long-ago appearances made by Delaware senatorial candidate Christine O&#8217;Donnell on his generally unwatchable show. The prospect of startling revelations in the &#8230; <a href="http://sandymchoots.wordpress.com/2010/09/19/i-support-the-witchcraft-dabbler/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sandymchoots.wordpress.com&amp;blog=13307683&amp;post=356&amp;subd=sandymchoots&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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