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		<title>Attack of the Disaffected</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Except rarely, the people who habituate website comment sections are the most disaffected and angry in the &#8220;community&#8221;, taken to mean a loose accumulation of people surrounding an idea, issue, or geographic area. So, normally I wouldn&#8217;t spend a second on the handful of comments on a Daily Camera  article pertaining to the Boulder Public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=167</link>
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		<title>Tax-Supported Recreation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An article today on the Boulder Daily Camera website describes a plan by the City of Boulder Parks and Recreation Department to operate more-or-less like a business&#8211;recovering fully, that is, all costs incurred in their operations through fees. On the surface that seems smart: those of us of such &#8220;modest means&#8221; that the $6.50 entance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=163</link>
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		<title>Libraries: The New Cupcakes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From NPR &#8212; libraries might just be the next big pop-culture wave. After we&#8217;re done with cupcakes, of course.]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=161</link>
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		<title>And By Immigration Reform, We Mean Talk About Immigration Reform&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the New York Times: In a private meeting with White House officials this weekend, Democratic governors voiced deep anxiety about the Obama administration’s suit against Arizona’s new law, worrying that it could cost a vulnerable Democratic Party in the fall elections. Absent from the Governor&#8217;s complaints,I notice, are both concerns about federal inaction on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=157</link>
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		<title>Maybe the Internet Isn&#8217;t An Agent Of Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Early on, many people predicted that the Internet would revolutionize communication, empowering to the people and thereby threatening  totalitarian regimes with the power of democracy. It turns out that may not be the case. On NextGov.com, Aliya Sternstein cites research by Foreign Policy blogger Evgeny Morozov, who reports that he has grown skeptical of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=153</link>
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		<title>Are We More Than Votes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I bumped into this article [will open a new tab/window] in the Washington Post reporting on political consultant Drew Westen&#8217;s attempts to help Democrats use language morely likely to appeal to voters&#8217; emotions, and so more likely to persuade them to vote accordingly. Also this book review, from New Scientist, of Flipnosis: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=149</link>
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		<title>When It Rains, Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to So Damn Much Money, a chronical of the rise of lobbying in D.C. and the parallel increase in the power of money, the politician&#8217;s motto is (or ought to be) &#8220;When it rains, dance.&#8221;  Meaning, whenever something good happens claim credit. Our politicians are doing that now related to movement on the previously [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Fool Me Once&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a Washington Post article on the financial regulation bill: &#8220;Democrats have been unwilling to alter the legislation without a guarantee that it would bring Republican votes.&#8221; Republicans this session have engaged in &#8220;bipartisan&#8221; deliberations (which aren&#8217;t that at all but are rather negotiations over what interests will be privileged) thereby revising legislation which will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=142</link>
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		<title>Music as Social Control? No Kidding.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a post on the tech blog Slashdot: &#8220;Classical music is being used increasingly in Great Britain as a tool for social control and a deterrent to bad behavior. One school district subjects badly behaving children to hours of Mozart in special detention. Unsurprisingly, some of these youth now find classical music unbearable. Recorded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Wearing the Veil</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to the BBC, the French Immigration Minister yesterday rejected a man&#8217;s citizenship application because he forced his French wife to wear a head-to-toe Islamic veil, citing naturalization law that requires anyone seeking citizenship to &#8220;demonstrate a desire for integration.&#8221; France officially does not recognize race or ethnicity, holding that citizens are simply and completely [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://frogsforsnakes.steveclason.com/?p=137</link>
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