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	<title>An Exercise in Sanity</title>
	<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog</link>
	<description>What we need most in American politics is a sane, rational discourse instead of our increasingly uncivil sound-byte oriented vitriol.</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Uncontacted&#8221; Tribes?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. Reading this story on CNN boggles me. It&#8217;s about a sighting of &#8220;uncontacted&#8221; tribes in the Amazon. Apparently Brazil has an entire government bureau dedicated to &#8220;protecting&#8221; these tribes from encroachment. The entire article reads like a zookeeper&#8217;s report about how to best ensure we don&#8217;t disrupt their &#8220;natural&#8221; habitat and living conditions. Wow.
These [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=61</link>
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		<title>Busy.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No posts the past couple weeks, and sure to continue for at least a month more probably. Swamped at work and other things.
When I get back to this, I&#8217;ll be starting a project that was the initial motivation for starting the blog.
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		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Bad, Bad, Bad Logic and Statistics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it once, I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be saying it the rest of my life. Correlation does not imply causality. Why is it so hard for people to understand this? Here&#8217;s a great example in sports: The home team wins 67% of playoff games in the NBA. The author writes this as if it&#8217;s a huge [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=59</link>
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		<title>An Interesting Prospect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. This would get me interested in the election. Chuck Hagel as running mate to Barack Obama. Very, very interesting. I need to get my review of Hagel&#8217;s book finished. So little time though.
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		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=58</link>
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		<title>I am not a Capitalist.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not, but I frequently get called one. Since I&#8217;m opposed to socialism, that must mean I&#8217;m a capitalistk, right? Does being opposed to monarchy make you a democrat? Not necessarily &#8212; you could be many other things. The socialism/capitalism divide is a false dichotomy; there are many other choices. Hardly anyone gets called a &#8220;democrat&#8221; these days; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=54</link>
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		<title>Correlation, Causality, and Gun Control</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Correlation does not imply causality. The logic is even worse when your supposed correlation is false. Today, I got an email from a friend about gun control; the email was one of those typical internet forwards. This one was about how crime rates in Australia went up after the ban (and subsequent buyback) of many types of firearms.  A brief look at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=56</link>
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		<title>Gas Prices and Environmentalists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What do environmentalists1 want? They want better, cheaper, cleaner energy (all good things). For a long time, I&#8217;ve held a grudge against environmentalists because while they want these things, they are also opposed to the one known way to get it &#8211; nuclear power. Now, maybe they have a principled stance here: it&#8217;s true that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=55</link>
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		<title>Hagee, Parsley, McCain and Activist Judges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Revere has a series of videos up depicting just how vile and stupid John Hagee and Rod Parsley are. These are people McCain has accepted endorsements from. As I have pointed out before, these people are not any better than Jeremiah Wright. Seriously, watch the videos and tell me that you still hold Wright against [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=53</link>
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		<title>India Uncut</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My wife is Indian, so I try to pay some attention to Indian politics at least a little. India Uncut by Amit Varma is a pretty good source for the little things that make Indian politics and culture a little bizarre. Indian society is still very conservative in many ways, but what I see in the short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=52</link>
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		<title>Sam Harris and Torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just reread &#8220;The End of Faith&#8221; and picked up on an internal inconsistency in Sam Harris&#8217; logic with respect to torture. In an early part of the book, Harris chides many on the left for comparing Bush to Hitler and/or Saddam Hussein because Bush has been indirectly responsible for the deaths of innocents due [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://exercisesanity.com/blog/?p=51</link>
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