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		<title>The Critical Mass</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Sunday New York Times, so you don&#8217;t have to: Sept. 5
  This morning&#8217;s coffee is from the island of Java. I&#8217;ve loaded the five-CD changer with all John Coltrane.
 1, Page One at a glance: Democrats are calculating which of their candidates are hopeless causes in the November election and will [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Aug 2010 18:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Sunday New York Times, so you don&#8217;t have to: Aug. 29
Still no end to these awesome Upstate New York global warming mornings. The coffee&#8217;s on, last of the stuff from some island in the Flores Sea. First music of the day: Now is the Hour, Charlie Haden Quartet West.
1, In today&#8217;s lead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critical Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free speech: How embarrassing
The country was being rushed into war in 2002. And a lot of us knew that. We knew that George W. Bush had no reason to invade Iraq. Despotic as he was, Saddam Hussein had had nothing to do with 9/11, or Al Qaeda. In fact, in one respect, he had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy 100th: The Critical Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrating the fall of civilization, and The New York Times
The Critical Mass today celebrates it&#8217;s 100th posting, since November&#8217;s tequila-soaked web-site launch party at Abilene Bar &#38; Lounge. One friend is unimpressed; she told me she&#8217;s filed 5,000 blogs.
But this blog doesn&#8217;t report on every time I take a shower, although it usually does report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critical Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Racism is not &#8220;Some special interest group&#8221;
Dr. Laura Schlessinger has self-immolated. She says after 30 years she&#8217;s shutting down her syndicated advice radio show after apologizing for using what we in the media politely call &#8220;The N-Word&#8221; 11 times during a broadcast last week.
I&#8217;d never listened to Schlessinger, although I know she&#8217;s important to some people. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critical Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Sunday New York Times, so you don&#8217;t have to: Aug. 15
The coffee this morning comes from an island off  Sumatra. &#8220;You get a geography lesson with every cup,&#8221; said my coffee guy, Java Joe, as he filled my usual order for a pound of whatever beans he was roasting that day, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critical Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 21:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More decline of Western Civilization
John Mayer, the noted pop singer (&#8221;Your Body is a Wonderland&#8221;) and race-relations expert (&#8221;My dick is sort of like a white supremicist&#8221;) dedicated his entire show Tuesday night  to the Jet Blue flight attendant, Steven Slater, who wigged out after his flight had arrived Sunday at Kennedy Airport. Slater was reportedly hit on [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Sunday New York Times, so you don&#8217;t have to: Aug. 8
I generally don&#8217;t remember my dreams; but last night, John Mellencamp came to stay at our house while he recorded his new album. He was kind of a talkative guy, and while we were sitting around the dining room table, listening to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critical Mass</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If the choice was high school reunion or holding my hand on a hot grill  for a minute&#8230;
An e-mail arrived a few weeks ago. My 35th high school reunion is coming up. Nordonia High School, a suburb of Cleveland. I will not be attending; The folk singer Peter Case is playing at a friend&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 17:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I read The Sunday New York Times, so you don&#8217;t have to: July 25
First music of the Day: The Flaming Lips&#8217; re-interpretation of Pink Floyd&#8217;s Dark Side of the Moon, in its entirety.
1, Scholars who have analyzed the Supreme Court of Chief Justice John Roberts, now in its fifth year, say it is the most [...]]]></description>
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