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	<title>Vox Emphatica</title>
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	<description>Irony, wit, and some well-placed ridicule</description>
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		<title>The Lady or the Tiger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I confess I’ve been watching more TV than I have in a long time, and now I remember why I stopped.  It’s making me lose faith in humanity.
My most immediate frustration is with the whole Tiger Woods ridiculosity.  As soon as the story starts to lose a little traction, we’re given a new set of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2010/02/the-lady-or-the-tiger/</link>
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		<title>Great Yeastery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love good food.  I love to cook and am pretty good at it.  But I’ve always been afraid of baking bread.
First of all, the nature of yeast is confounding.  Animal?  Vegetable?  Sea monkey?  We didn’t do much real baking at our house, so the yeast packets were written in Aramaic.  This should’ve been the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2009/12/great-yeastery/</link>
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		<title>Me, James Erb, and the nature of God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent most of my formative years as an active churchgoer.  Then I pedaled off to college and was asked to challenge everything I knew to be true.  In that process and in learning more about the many horrors we’ve committed in the name of faith, I lost mine.  Not just because of the grandwizardmagicsantaclaus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2009/09/me-james-erb-and-the-nature-of-god/</link>
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		<title>Snob Robbery, or The Reckless Elitist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right when we should have been concentrating on the healthcare reform discussion, along comes Officer Krupke and a strange case of life immitating art.
Well I suppose &#8216;art&#8217; is a little generous, but there was an interesting movie released several years ago starring one of my favorite actors of all time, Samuel L. Jackson.  I can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2009/08/snob-robbery-or-the-reckless-elitist/</link>
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		<title>Lipstick Pit Bull Fact Check</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Toward the end of 2000 (specifically in mid-November when the election debacle was finally being resolved), I spent many nervous hours considering emigration to Canada.  The idea of a George W. Bush administration was more than scary enough to make me consider leaving family, friends, and U.S. citizenship behind in favor of the relative peace [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2009/06/lipstick-pit-bull-fact-check/</link>
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		<title>Jesus Neutron</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is there a more absurd way to spend a Wednesday morning than in pondering the nature of God and religion?  I pulled into my driveway yesterday afternoon and saw some piece of silliness hanging from my front door knob.  Typically coming and going through the back door, I recalled the flotsam this morning and went [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2009/06/jesus-neutron/</link>
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		<title>Why I Hate Columbia House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s no good reason in the world to expect a profit-driven company to send you a bunch of free stuff without attaching little strings to every item.  Such is the paradigm vortex in which I find myself tonight.
Because I have a life, a career, and a social calendar…  Because I see no particular [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2008/10/why-i-hate-columbia-house/</link>
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		<title>Madison on War</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A nationalist is someone who not only overlooks atrocities committed by his own side.   He has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.  &#8212; George Orwell
Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
War [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2008/08/madison-on-war/</link>
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		<title>Cheney&#8217;s Warped View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his speech to the AIPAC convention yesterday, Dick Cheney laid out his thirst for literally endless war &#8212; and his equally intense aversion to war-avoidance &#8212; as unabashedly as can be. The towering question which America faces is whether it wants to continue to embrace this bloodthirsty and truly crazed vision (which many leading [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2007/03/cheneys-warped-view/</link>
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		<title>Teach Your Children Well</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From my earliest moments, I remember my mother telling me that there’s nothing I can’t do if I put my mind to it.  I wasn’t entirely sure what she meant at first, but it sounded good.  Later, the oversimplification would gall me.  Particularly when scraping with math homework that neither she nor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://voxemphatica.com/2006/10/teach-your-children-well/</link>
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