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	<title>An Experiment in Scotch &#187; nanny state</title>
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	<description>&#34;I write to discover what I believe.&#34; Michael Lopp on Twitter</description>
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		<title>Dallas Finds New Ways To Screw Small Business Owners</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2011/02/dallas-finds-new-ways-to-screw-small-business-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 20:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The backstory: In March of last year, the City of Dallas passed an ordinance allowing cabs that are powered by natural gas to jump the line at Love Field. The city council voted unanimously for this change, a change that clearly positions the government in a place to make market decisions. Current: Independent cab drivers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Our Whininess Have No End?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whole Foods is implementing a plan to give a bigger employee discount to employees that don’t smoke, have lower blood pressure and have a BMI under 30. Naturally, people are whining about discrimination. This includes one quote that I can’t possibly do justice to other than to reproduce it in full: “Why are you rewarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We Really Are In The Best Of Hands</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mayor of New York and that city’s health commissioner have decided to pressure city restaurants to lower the amount of salt in food they serve by half over the next decade even though the science behind the decision is ambiguous and uncertain. On top of that, lowering salt in your diet may lead to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Something Productive</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/03/doing-something-productive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just sent the following to my Representative in the US House in response to HR 875 – the Food Safety and Modernization Act of 2009 which I wrote about here. I lifted a large portion of the letter with permission from TennZen and tailored the message somewhat to Congressman Hall, my representative. Feel free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change We Can Believe In</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2009/03/change-we-can-believe-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bill has been introduced by a Democrat whose husband does work for Monsanto that would effectively kill farmer’s markets. Under the guise of protecting those of us who never asked for protection, the government is trying to regulate all food we might buy. A new governmental entity would be created out of thin air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Nanny State Encroachment Continues</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:48:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Jersey is trying to ban Brazilian waxes because two people complained and 1 sued. Conspiracy theories abound including one that says the state is trying to push people to dermatologists for laser treatment over the waxing. Fun times in New Jersey.]]></description>
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		<title>Is Selling Porn Worse Than Robbing People?</title>
		<link>http://www.anexperimentinscotch.com/2008/12/is-selling-porn-worse-than-robbing-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scotch Drinker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Justice Department thinks so. Here, we have a police officer who bribed Hispanics to give him money in exchange for not arresting them. He gets 1 year of home arrest while a man selling tapes showing consenting adults having sex to consenting adults gets 33 months in prison. The police have one task and [...]]]></description>
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