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		<title>Hippies, A Brief Ethnography</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/hippies-a-brief-ethnography/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:29:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyrone Kissinger</dc:creator>
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Anthropologists and Sociologists alike define any social orientation within or fitting under the umbrella of a larger, dominant culture as a subculture. While vastly different in character, the hippie culture is as much a subculture as Britain&#8217;s soccer hooligans, Ireland&#8217;s pikeys and the anarcho-syndicalists from that Monty Python movie.
All subcultures have their own practices, characteristics, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=690&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Of Dirty Harry, Eastern European History, and Infomercials</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esmé Pestel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re Off the Case, McGarnicle!  &#8230;err, Callahan!
I think it&#8217;s been long enough.  Finally, the world will be able to enjoy a Broadway musical about Dirty Harry.  More specifically (and awesomely), the musical is based on the second movie in the series, 1973&#8217;s Magnum Force, the plot of which revolved around four ex-special forces soldiers turned [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=672&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Check Label Before Reading</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/check-label-before-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esmé Pestel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fucking Badass]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[anti-semitism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the taking of pelham 1 2 3]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I dodged a cinematic bullet.  A few days ago, I arrived in Florida to visit my parents for a few weeks.  There being not that much to do here, my dad suggested we all go see a movie on Sunday.  Before going to bed on Saturday, I suggested we see &#8220;something original.&#8221;  To my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=652&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wall Street Journal Takes a Very Credible and Intellectually Engaging Position on Obama and Iran</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/649/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esmé Pestel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ahmadinejad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bullshit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just kidding.  The Wall Street Journal&#8217;s editorial page has taken a break from prescribing tax cuts in relation to every economic development so that it could criticize Obama&#8217;s response to the current situation in Iran.  Obama speaks &#8220;like a good lawyer;&#8221; displays again his &#8220;now-frequent moral equivalence&#8221; by deigning to mention that we overthrew Iran&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=649&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/the-final-solution-to-the-palestinian-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:36:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tyrone Kissinger</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy/Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pictures]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[LOL]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[



Hurray for Zionism!
       <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=637&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>new year?</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:33:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Thurston Thunderfuck</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/?p=632</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It surprises me that people really consider 2009 a &#8220;new&#8221; year.  Yeah you write a 9 instead of an 8 on checks and papers and whatnot, but with a long hard look at it, everything is fluid.  The woes of 2008 still exist and continue to flourish into this new year, and unfortunately (or fortunately) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=632&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lucid Dreaming</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/lucid-dreaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alfred Farnsworth</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[book store]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[control dream]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dream]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/?p=630</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often I have lucid dreams, where I recognize I&#8217;m in a dream.  It&#8217;s an interesting position to be in.  If I had good control over it I could use it for all kinds of fun purposes.  Instead of reigning in control my dream usually ends, I wake up or everything in the dream [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=630&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fuck: The United States Bailout Hits 8.6 Trillion</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/fuck-the-united-states-bailout-hits-86-trillion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 23:31:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jones Octavian</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy/Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicolas Cage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carl Sagan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fuck]]></category>
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US Government issues every citizen a Jennings 9mm Pistol (only $149.99), one bullet, and a fifth of Gin.  Alcoholics that need more than a fifth to get drunk are trying to get a piece of the bailout, but it doesn&#8217;t look good.
I have no idea what the hell is going on.  Here is the bailout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=612&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Positions of the Candidates on Salient Human Rights Issues</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/positions-of-the-candidates-on-salient-human-rights-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:27:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Esmé Pestel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[children's rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[darfur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death penalty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fisa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guantanamo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refugees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sudan]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a table that documents the candidates&#8217; positions on assorted domestic and international human rights issues, was made for internal purposes at UCSB&#8217;s wing of Amnesty International, with which I&#8217;m affiliated.  Murphy saw me working on it the other day and urged me to throw it on here since I hadn&#8217;t posted in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=597&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?: The Pro-Obama Argument From A Younger Generation.</title>
		<link>http://contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/are-you-smarter-than-a-fifth-grader-the-pro-obama-argument-from-a-younger-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 01:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elizabeth Furguson</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Sixpack]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to make ends meet in these challenging financial times, I have begun tutoring kids and teaching SAT prep classes on the weekends for a company in San Diego. This weekend I worked with a very bright fifth grade boy on his writing (I have no idea why his parents are making him go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=contemporarymisgivings.wordpress.com&blog=4710279&post=592&subd=contemporarymisgivings&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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