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		<title>Right-wing terrorism</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/06/10/right-wing-terrorism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Holocaust Memorial]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1169</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, an anti-semitic terrorist attacked the Holocaust Memorial in Washington D.C. (I&#8217;ve been there, and yes, one visit is enough for a lifetime). Last week, an anti-abortion terrorist assassinated a doctor. Why is the media so afraid to use the word &#8220;terrorist&#8221; to accurately describe right-wingers engaged in the act of terrorism? Is it that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>The inauguration of Obama &#8211; you had to be there</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/01/21/the-inauguration-of-obama-you-had-to-be-there/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2009/01/21/the-inauguration-of-obama-you-had-to-be-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today was a long yet exhilarating day. It started at around 7:00am when we woke up and boarded the Metro downtown to catch the inauguration. We had purple tickets allowing us onto the Capitol grounds, but alas, the purple line was mishandled horribly, and we didn&#8217;t actually get in. Frustration was running high in the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Parody is not license to be racist</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/28/parody-is-not-license-to-be-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/12/28/parody-is-not-license-to-be-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 01:20:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack the Magic Negro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parody]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Puff the Magic Dragon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, some Republicans thought it would be a brilliant idea to distribute a CD to members of the Republican National Convention containing a song titled &#8220;Barack the Magic Negro&#8221;. The general response was about as predictable as the sunset, and rightly consisted of outright condemnation over such disgusting and overt racism. But get this: the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The death of the Bradley Effect</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/06/the-death-of-the-bradley-effect/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/06/the-death-of-the-bradley-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 22:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bradley Effect]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[race]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[racism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1088</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The results of Tuesday&#8217;s election give us reason enough to declare the Bradley Effect as outdated, wrong, and finally, dead and buried. The &#8220;Bradley Effect&#8221;, named after black California 1982 gubernatorial candidate Tom Bradley, posits that a significant number of whites are secret racists, who will tell pollsters they&#8217;re willing to vote for a non-white [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Today is a momentous day</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/05/today-is-a-momentous-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/05/today-is-a-momentous-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 05:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[president]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1084</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is a momentous day. I can finally truthfully say again that I am proud of my country. It&#8217;s an incredible feeling.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fixing ordering bias of U.S. presidential election candidates on Wikipedia</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/03/potus-election-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/11/03/potus-election-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:57:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Net]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1081</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, upon getting home from work, one of the first things I did was check the Main Page of the English Wikipedia. It always has interesting content on there, and today was no exception. For the first time ever, two articles were featured on the front page: those of John McCain and Barack Obama. Except [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the William Ayers &#8220;controversy&#8221; keeps failing to gain traction</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/12/william-ayers-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/10/12/william-ayers-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[activism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Agent Orange]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anti-war]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election 2008]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smears]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1033</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pardon my dumb-foundedness, but I just don&#8217;t understand why the McCain/Palin campaign and other Republicans keep on pushing the &#8220;he associates with former terrorist William Ayers&#8221; attack line against Barack Obama. Okay, that&#8217;s not quite true; I understand why they&#8217;re pushing this line of attack &#8212; they&#8217;re out of any good ideas for America&#8217;s future, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just say no (to the financial sector bailout)</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/29/just-say-no-to-the-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/29/just-say-no-to-the-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[finance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=1016</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m conflicted about the collapse of the financial bailout package. On the one hand, I&#8217;m losing a lot of money on the stock market and in my 401K. Losing money never made anyone happy. But hey, I&#8217;m young (just one year out of college), so my risk tolerance only draws the line at loss of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Finally back from a long week</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/01/finally-back-from-a-long-week/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/09/01/finally-back-from-a-long-week/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democrat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=973</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m finally back from my ten-day &#8220;vacation&#8221;. Although I did take vacation days from work to attend the Democratic National Convention, it didn&#8217;t really feel like a vacation. Conventions are, by their very nature, thoroughly hectic. At least the two days in Breckenridge and one day in Boulder helped me unwind a little bit. One [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Abortion protesters never get old</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/28/abortion-protesters-never-get-old/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/28/abortion-protesters-never-get-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 17:53:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abortion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[embryo]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have much time to blog today, as Obama&#8217;s acceptance speech at Invesco Field (combined with the fiasco of the change of venue) is sucking all of the oxygen out of the atmosphere. It was actually hard just to find time on a computer. So I&#8217;ll focus this post on one little quirky aspect [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Initial impressions of Denver</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/24/initial-impressions-of-denver/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/24/initial-impressions-of-denver/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[beggars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=964</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are some of my impressions of Denver so far, in no particular order (you may recall I&#8217;m here for the Democratic National Convention). The teenagers here suck. Talk about midwest suburban angst. I&#8217;ve seen so many piercings, bad haircuts, and outright horrible emo-style outfits. Columbine actually makes some sense to me now. The teenagers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The folly of trusting the Bush administration in military manners</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/11/the-folly-of-trusting-the-bush-administration-in-military-manners/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/08/11/the-folly-of-trusting-the-bush-administration-in-military-manners/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[foreign policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Russia]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s looking like Georgia made the fatal mistake of trusting us, the United States, in military manners, and now they&#8217;re paying the price for it. But first, some back story. George W. Bush is (or was until these past few days, anyway) very popular in Georgia. It&#8217;s one of the few countries he&#8217;s been on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The good old days of American politics</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/23/religion-and-us-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/23/religion-and-us-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=873</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Man, how I yearn for the good old days of American politics, back when pandering to piety wasn&#8217;t a requirement of all candidates. Think Robert Ingersoll could be nearly as successful today? He was politically active for decades, yet gave huge speeches in nearly every city of America deriding religion. He was called the Great [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>War in the Middle East &#8211; this could be fun!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/12/upcoming-war-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/12/upcoming-war-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 20:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=863</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rumblings about a potential war in the Middle East with Iran keep pouring in. It makes you think there really is something to this. Is George W. Bush insane enough to launch a third war when we can&#8217;t even win the two we&#8217;re currently engaged in? Are the Israelis really stupid enough to preemptively attack [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Authors are the only ones to see the fairer side of copyright</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/09/copyright-across-industries/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/09/copyright-across-industries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most netizens agree that copyright is pretty horrifically broken. It lasts far longer than it has any business to, its length keeps getting extended, it&#8217;s way too restrictive, and it benefits major corporations a lot more than it does individuals. Most of copyright&#8217;s terrible public image has come from the music industry and the movie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attention American conservatives: Wikipedias are grouped by language, not by nation</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/08/english-not-american-wikipedia/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/07/08/english-not-american-wikipedia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[climate change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservative]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=861</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another day, another conservative commentator &#8216;discovering&#8217; that Wikipedia is a bastion of left-wing liberal thinking. In this case, Lawrence Solomon, a climate change denier with a tenuous grasp on reality, is getting all bent out of shape that his attempts to insert oil company propaganda into Wikipedia are being reverted. He reaches the very tired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama opens up 15 point lead over McCain</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/22/obama-leads-mccain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/22/obama-leads-mccain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hell yeah! Obama has opened up a 15 point lead over McCain. And hopefully, the lead will only grow larger over time. After eight disastrous years under George W. Bush, and now one candidate who represents a continuation of those policies versus one who does not, it&#8217;s pretty obvious what the American people prefer. We [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Seasteading: A path towards real micronations?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/10/seasteading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/10/seasteading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 22:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[libertarianism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[micronation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ocean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[platform]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seastead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seasteading]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a few days ago, I was talking with my officemate about micronations and how awesome the concept is (he had never heard of Sealand before). We both liked the idea, but didn&#8217;t exactly see how it would be possible. All of the land on Earth is already claimed, leaving no room to create a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Kucinich busts out the Articles</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/09/impeach-bush/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/09/impeach-bush/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:52:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[impeachment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[traditional media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dennis Kucinich is introducing 35 Articles of Impeachment against George W. Bush on the House floor as I type this. The best traditional media coverage of it is by the Associated Press, but it doesn&#8217;t look like anyone else has picked up on it yet. You&#8217;d think this would be big news on CNN, MSNBC, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Akihabara knifing spree</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/08/akihabara-knifing-spree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/08/akihabara-knifing-spree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 14:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Akihabara]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gun control]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[killing spree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stabbing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tokyo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Seven people were killed by a man wielding a knife today in Akihabara, a district in Tokyo. Eighteen total were stabbed. Imagine how much worse this killing spree would&#8217;ve been if guns were as readily available in Japan as they are here. I&#8217;m just saying.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Fascism comes to DC</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/05/fascism-comes-to-dc/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/05/fascism-comes-to-dc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 22:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[checkpoint]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creeping fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[District of Columbia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fascism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ghetto]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood Safety Zone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washington D.C.]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fascism is alive and well in Washington, D.C. Metropolitan police are planning on creating &#8220;Neighborhood Safety Zones&#8221;, which is apparently another way to say &#8220;ghetto with limited access security checkpoints&#8221;. Your papers, please? I love how the Interim Attorney General defends this fascist scheme by saying it has &#8220;been used in other cities&#8221;. None of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Barack Obama, our Democratic nominee!</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/03/barack-obama-wins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/03/barack-obama-wins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 01:44:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 presidential election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nomination]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Whew, it&#8217;s finally official*. Even though it&#8217;s long been inevitable, it&#8217;s a relief to know that Barack Obama has finally secured the number of delegates necessary to clinch the Democratic nomination. I haven&#8217;t really made it a secret that I support Barack Obama, though I haven&#8217;t particularly talked about it on here often because political [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can we focus on John McCain now please?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/15/hillary-drop-out/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/15/hillary-drop-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 12:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2008 election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[election]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[endorsement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Edwards]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t exactly kept it a secret that I&#8217;m a Barack Obama supporter (since John Edwards dropped out of the race, anyway). Now it&#8217;s all come full circle and John Edwards has endorsed Barack Obama. So can we please quickly finish up with the remainder of this primary season lunacy and focus on John McCain? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>The grooviest candy ever?</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/07/the-grooviest-candy-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/07/the-grooviest-candy-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 22:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amish]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ban]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cigarette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pot candy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a few choice responses to this news: Georgia Law Bans Retailers From Selling &#8216;Pot Candy&#8217; To Minors There&#8217;s actually a marijuana-flavored candy? Seriously? Would this be the first time in America that a flavor was made illegal? I thought the point of weed was that it got you high, not that it had [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Letting the terrorists win</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/04/letting-the-terrorists-win/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/05/04/letting-the-terrorists-win/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 01:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airport security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terrorist]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Washingon Post]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It really pains me to see how easily we&#8217;re letting the terrorists win. We&#8217;ve done more damage to ourselves in reactionary blind fear than they ever did to us with their singular large successful attack on American soil. All it took was to have an opportunistic president in power willing to respond to the attack [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Biofuels: not just a bad idea, but pure evil</title>
		<link>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/22/biofuels-are-evil/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/04/22/biofuels-are-evil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cyde Weys</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[biofuel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[food shortage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gas price]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[starvation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[world hunger]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I last tackled biofuels, my opinion of them was pretty much uniformly negative. So, what&#8217;s changed in the interim? Not much, just even more evidence that biofuels are evil (and I don&#8217;t use that word lightly). The New Statesman published an article on Thursday titled How the rich starved the world, and as soon [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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