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	<title>Years of Poems and Spirits &#187; politics</title>
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		<title>On the Eve of MA Special Election</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 10:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to make it a rule not to comment on day-to-day political grind. Since the partisan cacophony is like background noise, if you pay too close attention to it, you lose the big picture.
But I think tomorrow&#8217;s MA special election to fill Teddy Kennedy&#8217;s seat can be a monumental event. If Coakley loses, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fireflies in a Bottle II</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/995/fireflies-in-a-bottle-ii.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 06:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the sentiment &#8230;
Taking notes from Yakima, WA. Beautiful full moon rising over the vast East Washington plain tonight.  Reminded me of Ansel Adam&#8217;s famous photograph.
Notes:
Leading Democrats advocated financial market deregulation as late as 2007
From a yellowing page I saved from two years ago, on Feb 5, 2007 issue, James Surowiecki commented on a report [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frank Rich on Bush 43</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard having not written anything for a long while. But a well-written essay is like a good meal that can jolt me into action.
The opening paragraph of Frank Rich&#8217;s column was the most delicious part:
WE like our failed presidents to be Shakespearean,  &#8230; So here, too, George W. Bush has let us down. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kennedys and the American Aristocrosy</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/771/the-kennedys-and-the-american-aristocrosy.html</link>
		<comments>http://wuyibing.com/771/the-kennedys-and-the-american-aristocrosy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heard the news that Caroline Kennedy is going after Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Senate seat.
The Kennedy clan&#8217;s history is at the same time a tragedy and a mockery of American democracy. When Ted ran for his brother&#8217;s Senate seat at age 30, his opponent bitterly complained, &#8220;Sir, if your last name is anything but Kennedy, you would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Brooks on Sarah Palin</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/586/david-brooks-on-sarah-palin.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 20:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I always liked David Brooks (ever since the Bobo book). Just read his column on NYT today, his basica idea: the GOP that used to live on ideas is now gone forever. Palin is just the latest figure in a movement that has fundamentally changed the character of the party:
Republican political tacticians decided to mobilize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Link between Obama and JFK</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/582/the-dark-side-link-between-obama-and-jfk.html</link>
		<comments>http://wuyibing.com/582/the-dark-side-link-between-obama-and-jfk.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two days in a row I have been reading news reports on the sickening anger among McCain supporters. WaPo had an article yesterday: &#8220;Anger Is Crowd&#8217;s Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally&#8221; and today Politico had a follow up. Reading them gave me shudders: there even have been cries of &#8220;kill him&#8221; at a recent rally.
The reports reminded me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wall Street Bailout and Externality</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/564/wall-street-bailout-and-externality.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:05:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not that I don&#8217;t have any thing good to do. But I have to say I am furious over the bailout plan. The more I heard about it, the less I like it. The bottom line? I don&#8217;t think Wall Street is contrite enough&#8211;they haven&#8217;t told us exactly what went wrong, why it went so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Presidential Race</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/510/the-presidential-race.html</link>
		<comments>http://wuyibing.com/510/the-presidential-race.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 09:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[obama racism mccain election presidency hypocracy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Just heard the news that McCain has chosen Sarah Palin as veep. It is a good choice, at least good enough to get an Obama supporter like me worried. I like what I heard about Palin so far. She has a life story that is positive and can be related to.
However, this episode is just a distraction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glad It Is Over</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/480/glad-it-is-over.html</link>
		<comments>http://wuyibing.com/480/glad-it-is-over.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[sports]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Beijing Olympics is over today. I think many people I know are letting out a sigh of relief. Given so many misfortunes and unrests happened earlier this year, the summer Olympics once felt like a giant bubble ready to pop. Now it is over, all of a sudden, it dawned on me that 2008 was the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congressional Follies</title>
		<link>http://wuyibing.com/447/congressional-follies.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just heard the news that Nancy Pelosi is contemplating another massive tax rebate. From macroeconomic stand point, this doesn&#8217;t make sense: the material and commodity prices are already high, indicating a maxed out productivity. The monetary policy is already very loose, if the fiscal policy follows suite, inflation in its most brutal form will sure [...]]]></description>
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