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		<title>Travel Thoughts: Savannah, GA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Author note: This post was written several weeks ago while traveling without internet access. I recently moved away from Boston, rather further down the east coast, and stopped at a few places along the way. Savannah, Georgia was one of those stops, chosen more for its location along the Amtrak route than anything else. Not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shorter Every Ancient Astronaut Crackpot Ever</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Us white folk didn&#8217;t have these until a thousand years later, and you expect me to believe those brown people figured it out on their own? Haha, I kid! Blatant euro-centric racism is only half of the utter stupidity behind these idiots. The other half is a complete misunderstanding of the way that technology is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tuesday Lyrics: &#8220;Land of Do What You&#8217;re Told&#8221; by Chumbawamba</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:51:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey! I think it&#8217;s time for a lyrics post, yeah? One of the advantages of having an anarchist partner is that you learn about how awesome all of the Chumbawamba songs apart from &#8220;Tubthumping&#8221; are. Here&#8217;s an example: Have a word with your Patron Saint Cover up the cracks with a lick of paint All [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cold-Cocking of a Salesman</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=618</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:48:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Trees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are a couple of lines from Hunter S. Thompson&#8217;s The Rum Diary that occasionally find their way back into my brain, from time to time. This is one of them, shared here and now apropos of nothing: I have no valid complaint against hustlers, no rational bitch, but the act of selling is repulsive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Ada Lovelace Day!</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=615</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[\m/ Rawk! \m/]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those not informed, Ada Lovelace, a.k.a. Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, is the woman widely regarded as the world&#8217;s first ever computer programmer. In the 1840s. (She&#8217;s also Lord Byron&#8217;s daughter, which is pretty neat.) To give the short version, Charles Babbage at the time had built a successful mechanical calculator called the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Minutes&#8217; Hating on Evo Psych</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=613</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jackassery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Questions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fundamental premise of evolutionary psychology assumes that human evolution completely stopped with the appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens 200,000 years ago. Discuss.]]></description>
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		<title>I Wonder Why&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=609</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Jackassery]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rep. John Boehner is so opposed to this fictitious &#8220;government takeover&#8221; of health insurance. I wonder why. (Live feed with donation statistics via Sunlight Foundation.)]]></description>
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		<title>Skeptic to Believers: Meh.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still as skeptical as ever, and I still think skepticism is just as important as it ever was, but I&#8217;m having a really hard time getting interested in fighting the good fight any more. The fact is, it&#8217;s boring as fuck. Pick your woo, whether it be climate denialism, anti-vax, ghost hunting, creationism, UFOs, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BREAKTHROUGH IN COMMUNICATING WITH VEGETATIVE PATIENTS ZOMGELEVENTYONE</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=600</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:44:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science & Skepticism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Look, science journalists. Getting shit right is not hard. It usually doesn&#8217;t take that much longer than whatever you&#8217;re doing now. Honest! For instance, I read this Reuters report on fMRI and vegetative states, then spent like five minutes reading abstracts on PubMed to learn that the research has been misrepresented. The fact is, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unlive Blogging the State of the Union</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=594</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:22:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s have fun with this. I&#8217;ll write down my thoughts about the State of the Union as it happens, but I don&#8217;t really see the value in literally live-blogging this sort of thing. Anyway: Interesting opening. Talking about times in the past when the future has been uncertain. That&#8217;s one way to spin the shit-tastic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Which Online Sexual Harassment is Kind of a Big Deal</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=589</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[People Who Should Be Set On Fire]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First thing&#8217;s first. &#8220;Assault&#8221; is not the right term for this, but only because it carries a specific legal meaning that requires physical contact. But that doesn&#8217;t justify waving away the situation I&#8217;m about to discuss as no big deal, because it is. The Escapist has a news post entitled &#8220;Female Gamer &#8216;Sexually Assaulted&#8217; While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Follow-Up: What Good Journalism Looks Like</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=584</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 19:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture & Language]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Boston Globe dropped the ball with its coverage of the education bill passing through the state House of Representatives, The Somerville Journal picked it up and ran with it. I&#8217;m not asking for anything impossible, here, if a local newspaper can pull off what a big, lumbering dinosaur like the Globe apparently finds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Information is No Information</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=582</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[WTF? Mates. ^^]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed an article in the Boston Globe, a copy of which was lying in a common area at work, about an education bill that had just passed through the Massachusetts House of Representatives. So I read the whole thing, which was a lot of quotes of people saying that they liked charter schools and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Minor Site Update: Twitter Digests</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=580</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 16:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Meta]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I think I&#8217;m gonna switch off the Twitter digests. They&#8217;re a bit messy on the site because Twitter Tools doesn&#8217;t let me auto-insert a More tag, and they distract from the actual content, on the rare occasions that I actually post something. I&#8217;ll keep the Twitter sidebar, and of course anybody who&#8217;s actually interested in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobasco&#8217;s Twits of the Week for 2009-12-13</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=579</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shiny things! # A HORROR HORDE OF CRAWL-AND-CRUSH GIANTS CLAWING OUT OF THE EARTH FROM MILE-DEEP CATACOMBS! #movienight # I cannot stress this enough: I really, really love the movie Them! Completely unironically. It&#39;s just an awesome movie. # So apparently Leonard Nimoy had a brief appearance in Them! as an Army sergeant. Not sure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobasco&#8217;s Twits of the Week for 2009-12-06</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=578</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RT @Dr_Dinosaur: I just generated my #TweetCloud out of a year of my tweets. Top three words: mammal, behold, world &#8211; http://w33.us/1bpr # RT @serafinowicz: US followers: Happy You&#39;reWelcomesaying. # An MIT economist has analysed the Senate&#39;s proposed health care plan and its effect on premiums: http://is.gd/575ld # Just arrived back in Boston after 12 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michael Shermer is Concerned</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=573</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:32:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism & Religion]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As if it weren&#8217;t bad enough that one of his more famous books is just a paraphrase of Pinker&#8217;s The Blank Slate or that his PowerPoint presentations are so awful as to be considered crimes against humanity under the Geneva Convention or that he insists on promoting his libertarianism in every talk, no matter how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobasco&#8217;s Twits of the Week for 2009-11-29</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=572</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RT @ebertchicago: Joe Lieberman is edging higher on the Glenn Beck Unbearability Index. # !!! RT @BadAstronomer: Obama announces an annual science fair at the White House! http://is.gd/51WcE # Cracked.com on ghost hunting shows: http://www.cracked.com/funny-3039-ghost-tv/ # I think the reason a lot of vampires are cranky is that it&#39;s impossible for them to run errands [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tobasco&#8217;s Twits of the Week for 2009-11-22</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=571</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[RT @mattfraction: @warrenellis the coughs are coming from inside your lungs! GET OUT OF YOUR LUNGS! # Big Trouble in Little China #awesomethingsthatareonnytvrightnoe # RT @serafinowicz: What comes after the Credit Crunch? (via @robcmorgan) The delicious Credit Caramel Centre. # RT @KerryMaxwell: Apparently #6 worked for Google. #theprisoner # HI MY NAME IS 6 I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s a sign on the wall, but she wants to be sure&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.tobascodagama.com/?p=565</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Science & Skepticism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WTF? Mates. ^^]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Either every climatologist on the planet is involved in a conspiracy to hide data manipulation, or some assholes with an agenda don&#8217;t know how to interpret jargon. Which do you think is more likely? Apparently, we have degraded, as a society, to the point where a journalist actually has to go find an expert to [...]]]></description>
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