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	<description>&#34;I write to discover what I believe.&#34; Michael Lopp on Twitter</description>
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		<title>Punishing the Many To Capture The Few</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2012/01/punishing-the-many/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you will a society where the following is possible. You take your hard earned dollars to a bank. You deposit your checks, write checks to your creditors, pay your electric bill, maybe even have a savings account or two. Hundreds of other people in your community do the same. The bank is profitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some People Are Just Baby Tossers</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2012/01/some-people-are-just-baby-tossers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 14:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand portrayed a society where the best and the brightest people essentially picked up their proverbial basketball and went home, leaving the rest of us struggling, mediocre morons to fend for ourselves as said society broke down (she also seemed to favor situations where women got raped, possibly a window into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby Steps</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2010/01/baby-steps/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailouts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[finanical reform]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week, President Obama proposed regulatory changes that would limit big banks, implicitly those that received the guarantee of a government backstop during the crash last year, from investing for profits using their own hedge-funds or proprietary trading desks. This would be an excellent first step in reining in the power that the JP Morgans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jon Stewart Tells Keith Olbermann What For</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2010/01/jon-stewart-tells-keith-olbermann-what-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:23:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Keith Olbermann is a prick, that’s really all you can say. But Jon Stewart says it far better than I ever could. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon — Thurs 11p / 10c]]></description>
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		<title>Every Day It’s Some New Broken Promise</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2010/01/every-day-its-some-new-broken-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:52:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hitler parodies never ever ever get old. Change we can believe in and all.]]></description>
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		<title>Political Discourse Olberman Style</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2010/01/political-discourse-olberman-style/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad journalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope and change]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Man, the leftist elites are flipping out. It must be hard waking up to the realization that democracy involves “the people” and not “you telling the riff-raff what they ought to do”. Congratulations to Scott Brown this morning but more importantly, congratulations to the people of Massachusetts who went to the polls in unprecedented numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let’s Not Canonize The Wicked</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/08/lets-not-canonize-the-wicked/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Big Media is falling over itself trying to canonize the Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy, who died this week. But let’s not forget the man let a woman die that could have been saved while he tried to save his political career from the fallout. Apparently, he liked to joke about it. If that’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We’re In The Very Best Hands</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/07/were-in-the-very-best-hands/</link>
		<comments>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/07/were-in-the-very-best-hands/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:51:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After solving all the nation’s really hard problems this morning, Democratic Senators lead by Chuck Schumer had plenty of time on their hands and decided to save the world from people who text while they drive. Thank God the economy, health care and world peace all got knocked out in that work session this morning.]]></description>
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		<title>The Natives Are Definitely Getting Restless</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/07/the-natives-are-definitely-getting-restless/</link>
		<comments>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/07/the-natives-are-definitely-getting-restless/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 13:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hope and change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When avowed liberal talk show host Jon Stewart starts doing segments called “That’s Great, Now Fix The Economy”, I think it’s a pretty good sign that the honeymoon period is over. Hope and Change and all that jazz. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon — Thurs 11p / 10c That’s Great Now Fix the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From The Law Of Unintended Consequence Department</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/07/from-the-law-of-unintended-consequence-department/</link>
		<comments>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/07/from-the-law-of-unintended-consequence-department/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/?p=1299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Back in May, Congress passed a bill that prevented credit card companies from raising interest rates for cardholders unless the cardholder’s payments were 60 days overdue. They did this under the guise of protecting the consumer against the capricious and evil credit card companies, apparently forgetting in the process that credit card companies and consumers [...]]]></description>
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