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	<title>Termites in your Smile... &#187; politics</title>
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	<description>Getting people to think and to smile -- not necessarily in that order</description>
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		<title>Atlas Shrugged, Part 1: Non-Contradiction</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2011/04/16/atlas-shrugged-part-1-non-contradiction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ayn Rand&#8217;s magnum opus has finally made it to the big screen &#8212; or at least the first part has. With the book weighing in at more than 1,000 pages it&#8217;s a challenge to put a story of that magnitude into a 2-hour video. The production team has opted to break the book up into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Portugal&#8217;s experiment</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2010/08/18/portugals-experiment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Portugal had a serious drug problem &#8212; and in 2001 they tried something unusual to solve it. Now, nine years later, there are some very interesting results. Their solution costs TONS less than the conventional approach &#8212; e.g. America&#8217;s vote-buying &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221; The Portugal decriminalization approach has reduced drug usage and drug-related violence They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Edgar Guest</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2010/06/02/edgar-guest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 03:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just discovered Edgar Guest. Where has he been all these years? It Couldn&#8217;t Be Done Somebody said that it couldn&#8217;t be done, But he with a chuckle replied That &#8220;maybe it couldnt,&#8221; but he would be one Who wouldn&#8217;t say so till he&#8217;d tried. So he buckled right in with the trace of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Incredible Bread Machine</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2010/05/04/the-incredible-bread-machine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 05:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s one of the keystones to my high school curriculum. It&#8217;s The Incredible Bread Machine, a video by Karl Keating, Susan Love Brown, Patrea Post and Stuart Smith &#8212; inspired by Richard Grant&#8217;s epic poem of the same name. (An abbreviated rendition of the poem starts at 30:34 into the film &#8212; we would recite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So all this paranoia about global warming&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/12/18/so-all-this-paranoia-about-global-warming/</link>
		<comments>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/12/18/so-all-this-paranoia-about-global-warming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:15:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First note &#8212; &#8220;all&#8221; in the above title is just a colloquialism, as in &#8220;all this nonsense&#8221;. So it turns out that the scientists, you know, the folks who published all the alarming hoo-hah about global warming? Well, theyÂ selected which data to include in (and exclude from) their study, which makes the scientificity very suspect. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Harding College presents &#8220;Make Mine Freedom&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/11/18/harding-college-presents-make-mine-freedom/</link>
		<comments>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/11/18/harding-college-presents-make-mine-freedom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:25:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cartoon from 1948 seems eerily prescient today&#8230; http://nationaljuggernaut.blogspot.com/2009/09/this-cartoon-seemed-far-fetched-in-1948.html Hoo boy! Selling &#8220;security&#8221; sure feels sexy, compared to the turmoil endemic to a life of liberty. Explains why so many folks who don&#8217;t think about consequences are bamboozled by the &#8220;ism&#8221;s.]]></description>
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		<title>What If The Feds Ran Health Care&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/06/26/what-if-the-feds-ran-health-care/</link>
		<comments>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/06/26/what-if-the-feds-ran-health-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 14:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We elect representatives to lead us through trying times, right? To make policy decisions based on mountains more information than we ordinary folks have, yes? Why not have them run everything? Wouldn&#8217;t they be better at it than us uninformed simpletons? Wouldn&#8217;t the world be a better place if we had only one organization responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suzanna Gratia-Hupp: What the Second Amendment is REALLY For</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/06/07/suzanna-gratia-hupp-what-the-second-amendment-is-really-for/</link>
		<comments>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/06/07/suzanna-gratia-hupp-what-the-second-amendment-is-really-for/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 16:11:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most important part of this video &#8212; to most of us at large, that is; her world was forever changed by the events she recounts in the first part &#8212; is in her closing remarks to the legislators about the 2nd amendment. Still, the entire presentation is significant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1u0Byq5Qis From the notes attached to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Destroy a Country</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/05/21/how-to-destroy-a-country/</link>
		<comments>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/05/21/how-to-destroy-a-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 21:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. &#8220;What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The Government cannot give to anybody anything that the Government does not first take from somebody else. When half of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hype Factor: Swine Flu vs. Tuberculosis</title>
		<link>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/05/11/the-hype-factor-swine-flu-vs-tuberculosis/</link>
		<comments>http://will.trillich.com/blog/2009/05/11/the-hype-factor-swine-flu-vs-tuberculosis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 14:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>will</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Rosling does it again &#8212; starting with raw data he paints a very clear picture! This time it&#8217;s how news can be just plain hype. If you&#8217;re not familiar with Hans Rosling, he&#8217;s the guy who gave the No more boring data talk. Using animation he shows multiple dimensions of data clearly, concisely and [...]]]></description>
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