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	<description>Short-lived Obsessions with Interesting Things</description>
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		<title>Sarah Palin, Rewriting History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarah Palin, in the Vice Presidential debate:
Barack Obama and Senator Biden, you&#8217;ve said no to everything in trying to find a domestic solution to the energy crisis that we&#8217;re in. You even called drilling &#8212; safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore as raping the outer continental shelf.
Sara Palin, on Twitter:
Extreme Greenies:see now why we push&#8221;drill,baby,drill&#8221;of known reserves&#38;promising [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2010/06/sarah-palin-rewriting-history/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Something&#8217;s Wrong With Your Math&#8221; Act</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rep. Alan Grayson introduced the &#8220;War Is Making You Poor Act&#8221; on Friday:

The upshot is that he claims the extra $159 billion (on top of the already committed $549 billion) to be spent on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan isn&#8217;t necessary, and should instead be used to pay the income tax on the first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2010/05/the-war-is-making-you-poor-act/</link>
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		<title>A Totally Gay Math Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of Maine rejecting same-sex marriage, here&#8217;s a math problem for you:
Given a 53% to 47% split, and the fact that, statistically speaking, the older you are, the more likely you are to be bigoted*, how long will it take before same-sex marriage remains legal (or, at least, is popularly supported**) in Maine?
You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2009/11/a-totally-gay-math-problem/</link>
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		<title>If only we could get separate water fountains, too</title>
		<description><![CDATA[California voters approve gay-marriage ban, along with Florida and Arizona.
Phew, good thing my marriage is no longer under attack.
May the generations to come look back on us and be ashamed.
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		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2008/11/if-only-we-could-get-separate-water-fountains-too/</link>
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		<title>Disgusting Safeway Milk Coolers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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I&#8217;d always thought that our local Safeway (Rivermark Plaza in Santa Clara, actually a fairly &#8220;nice&#8221; area) was pretty lax in keeping their milk coolers clean, because of the vile smell of rotten milk when opening the doors. It&#8217;s a little hard to see in the BlackBerry photo, but there are several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2008/09/disgusting-safeway-milk-coolers/</link>
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		<title>Sarah Palin&#8217;s Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America &#8230; he&#8217;s worried that someone won&#8217;t read them their rights? &#8221; &#8211; Sarah Palin
&#8220;Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety deserve neither Liberty nor Safety&#8221; &#8211; Benjamin Franklin
I&#8217;ve kind of stayed away from politics here in the past. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2008/09/sarah-palins-speech/</link>
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		<title>I Was a Child Star</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brian finally got around to posting his old film projects on YouTube. This is the both beginning and end of my glamorous (if not exactly lucrative) acting career:

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		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2008/05/i-was-a-child-star/</link>
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		<title>You Don&#8217;t Know What It&#8217;s Like to be Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you want to know what it&#8217;s like to be Distracto?
As I was preparing for work this morning, I entered the bathroom to get my deodorant. As I started to reach into the medicine cabinet, a thought struck me. I don&#8217;t remember what it was.
&#8230;
Halfway through flossing my teeth, I said to myself, &#8220;Hey. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2007/11/you-dont-know-what-its-like-to-be-me/</link>
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		<title>me instanceof Googler</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(I was going to title this &#8220;me == Googler&#8221;, but I figured that kind of code would never fly at Google.)
Yup, this is the exciting news I hinted at last time! As of September 17, I am joining the ranks of software engineers at Google. To say I&#8217;m excited would be an understatement. I can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2007/08/me-instanceof-googler/</link>
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		<title>Up and Running with Wordpress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the all new Distracto, now running Wordpress! My old Movable Type installation had been broken for a while, and I&#8217;ve been really growing to like Wordpress recently. I&#8217;d also been meaning to switch Distracto&#8217;s web host for a while, so I took the opportunity to get it all done at once. Phew!
I managed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.distracto.net/2007/07/up-and-running-with-wordpress/</link>
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