Article: Bob Dylan & Other Icons Resurrect the Unfinished Lost Songs of Hank Williams

Bob Dylan & Other Icons Resurrect the Unfinished Lost Songs of Hank Williams
http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2011/10/06/the-lost-notebooks-of-hank-williams/

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Article: Republicans and Debt

Republicans and Debt
http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/09/27/republicans-and-debt/

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Implementing Strategies in Extreme Negotiations - Harvard Business Review

http://hbr.org/web/ideas-in-practice/implementing-strategies-in-extreme-negotiations

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Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy, study finds

Invasion of genomic parasites triggered modern mammalian pregnancy, study finds

Why Elizabeth Warren is Wrong

http://wp.me/p1JI3a-qp

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Republicans

Mentally retarded after their ideological vaccination against reality.

Article: Debunking the Myth that Regulations on Big Business are "Job-Killers" | | AlterNet

Debunking the Myth that Regulations on Big Business are "Job-Killers" | | AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/152503/debunking_the_myth_that_regulations_on_big_business_are_%22job-killers%22_/

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Elizabeth Warren On Class Warfare: ‘There Is Nobody in This Country Who Got Rich On His Own’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/elizabeth-warren-on-class-warfare-there-is-nobody-in-this-country-who-got-rich-on-his-own/

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The truth about 'class war' in America | Richard Wolff | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/19/class-war-america-republicans-rich

The truth about 'class war' in America

Republicans claim, in Orwellian fashion, that Obama's millionaire tax is 'class war'. The reality is that the super-rich won the war

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Hackers break SSL encryption used by millions of sites • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/19/beast_exploits_paypal_ssl/

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Republican class warfare

Right. Let's go back to the Eisenhower Republican highlife years. Oh, by the way the top margin tax rate was 90% of the fat cats income then, not the current paltry 35%: http://www.ntu.org/tax-basics/history-of-federal-individual-1.html#_edn5

Article: The 10 Best Amazon Reviews. Ever.

The 10 Best Amazon Reviews. Ever.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1779632/the-10-best-amazon-reviews-ever

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Meet the mystery man behind "Drive"

James Sallis

Meet the mystery man behind "Drive"
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/18/living/james-sallis-author-interview/index.html

Phoenix: It's the nation's fifth largest city, a triumph of will and
engineering over common sense, surrounded by miles of what looks at
first to be almost nothing. Sprawling, various, indefinable,
ungraspable. If ever there was a melting pot, this is one. Kinda
south, kinda west, kinda old, kinda ageless, kinda middle America,
kinda Hispanic

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Are genes our destiny? Scientists discover 'hidden' code in DNA evolves more rapidly than genetic code

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110916152401.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)

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Contrary Brin: Libertarians and Conservatives must choose: Competitive Enterprise or Idolatry of Property

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2011/09/libertarians-and-conservatives-must.html

libertarians and conservatives seem bent on ignoring market manipulation by 5,000 or so aristocratic golf buddies, who appoint each other to company boards in order to vote each other titanic "compensation packages" while trading insider information and conspiring together to eliminate competition. Lords who are not subject to inherent limits, like each bureaucrat must face, or rules of disclosure or accountability. Lords who (whether it is legal or not) collude and share the same delusions

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Contrary Brin: Libertarians and Conservatives must choose: Competitive Enterprise or Idolatry of Property

http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2011/09/libertarians-and-conservatives-must.html

So where's the problem? The problem is that it's all lip service on the right! Those who most-loudly proclaim Faith In Blind Markets (FIBM) are generally also those proclaiming idolatry of private property as a pure, platonic essence, a tenet to be clutched with religious tenacity, as it was in feudal societies. Obdurate, they refuse to see that they are conflating two very different things.

Private property - as Adam Smith made clear - is a means for encouraging the thing he really wanted: fair and open competition.  Indeed, the propertarian reforms that Peru instituted under the guidance of Hernando de Soto, vesting the poor in the land they had always farmed, resulted in a boom that delighted both libertarians and socialists.  Safe and secure property rights are a boon... up to a point.
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Article: Bill Gross - Google+ - World's Funniest Analogies. I practically cried laughing…

Bill Gross - Google+ - World's Funniest Analogies. I practically cried laughing…
https://plus.google.com/100612175927429294541/posts/c6MWreA6TB6

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Article: On Rejecting Faith in Morality

On Rejecting Faith in Morality
http://freethoughtblogs.com/camelswithhammers/2011/09/16/on-rejecting-faith-in-morality/

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