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		<title>Something&#8217;s Wrong With The Copy and Paste!</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/08/24/somethings-wrong-with-the-copy-and-paste/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often find joy getting extremely pissed off by stupid but politically charged websites. And nothing gets my heart rate up like blatant distortions, lies, and shitty arguments (see: &#8220;Death Panels&#8221; and anything that feeds the Obama-is-a-Muslim-Terrorist-Illegal-Immigrant crowd). But one of my favorite types of politicized propaganda is that which is conducted slyly&#8211;the kind that <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=707&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Arguments: Tom Tancredo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fear is a powerful mechanism in politics, and it is frequently employed to attract or sway the opinions of the masses. Political commentators are shameless in their attacks on political opposites, which often amount to nothing short of extreme fabrication (not to mention, there is always an abundant amount of hypocrisy, cherry-picking, and confirmation bias <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=703&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Argument: Hightower</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/07/02/698/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 20:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The current conservative movement is an easy target for ridicule because it is an irrational, syncretic amalgamation of conflicting ideas, beliefs, and blatant contradictions. Obama&#8217;s election managed to unite paleoconservative, neoconservative, libertarian, and religious conservative ideologies into one, stupid mess that lives and breathes off of paranoid conspiracy theories, anti-intellectual sentiments, and the systematic denial <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=698&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Country Hip Hop dancing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:23:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Heidi, TJ, Susan, and Jamie. I&#8217;m surprised this never took off<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=693&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Journalism: Cavuto and Blackwell</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/06/28/bad-journalism-cavuto-and-blackwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the point of this interview? Why would Cavuto ask his guest, economist Ron Blackwell, &#8220;why we should spend more money&#8221; if he&#8217;s not even going to hear Blackwell&#8217;s argument? Cavuto believes the stimulus has failed, like he was always going to believe, and Blackwell doesn&#8217;t think the stimulus has failed. If Cavuto wanted <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=686&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A biased study on bias</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/06/24/study-finds-liberal-bias-in-college-reading-lists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 21:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new study produced by the National Association of Scholars claims to have uncovered a pervasive liberal bias in college reading lists throughout the country. Predictably, the conservative blogosphere has adopted it as truth, and as proof of their oft recited claim that &#8220;universities are liberal indoctrination camps.&#8221; But the study doesn&#8217;t actually expose a <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=555&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Arguments: Thomas Sowell</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/06/23/bad-arguments-thomas-sowell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 01:10:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Thomas Sowell asks, &#8220;Is the U.S. Now on Slippery Slope to Tyranny?&#8221; And his response is a whopper. If you&#8217;re looking for a well-thought out evaluation of tyranny and trends in U.S. politics, then you&#8217;ll be disappointed to find that it&#8217;s just a bit of Hitler, a touch of Lenin, and a massive toilet <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=525&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intellectual Honesty</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/06/22/intellectual-honesty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 18:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important concept I learned in college was intellectual honesty. A philosophy professor and former mentor of mine considers it the paramount ethic of critical thought and the rational mind; the supreme imperative of analysis and vital to the pursuit for truth. Harvard ethicist Louis M. Guenin defines intellectual honesty as &#8220;a virtuous disposition <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=468&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why is cheating so prevalent in soccer?</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/06/14/why-is-cheating-so-important-to-soccer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Willy P.</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[World Cup season is among us and the world is rallying around its favorite sport. Ed at Gin and Tacos has a funny, but true, take on why soccer is so strange to Americans. But it also makes me wonder: why is it that the most popular sport in the world is a regular showcase <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=450&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BP Boycotts Target Small Business Owners</title>
		<link>http://bittersweetdistractions.com/2010/06/09/bp-boycotts-target-small-business-owners/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 19:32:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public reaction to the on-going Gulf oil spill has been emotional and angry, and blame has been thrown at everyone ranging from BP executives and oil industrialists to President Obama and environmentalists. Widespread anger and discontent, caused in response to a very current and on-going event, can often lead people to act only emotion <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bittersweetdistractions.com&amp;blog=5308571&amp;post=396&amp;subd=bittersweetdistractions&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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