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		<title>She might even consider giving up red meat/Man, you&#8217;re gonna look back to when your life was so sweet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, see, it&#8217;s like, I&#8217;ve already got the distinguished grey coming in at the temples at a comfortable clip for a 38-year-old, and then along come people like these, apparently doing their best to ensure that the stresses of modern life make me a complete flippin&#8217; silverdaddy by the time I turn 40 (via Hit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/17/she-might-even-consider-giving-up-red-meatman-youre-gonna-look-back-to-when-your-life-was-so-sweet/</link>
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		<title>Pour myself a cup of ambition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you held out hope that that whole Coffee Party thing might, really and truly, turn out not to be such a bad parallel development to the Tea Parties, it&#8217;s disillusionment time (via Ann Althouse)!
In one chair sits a rural retiree, his financial security shot in the slump, a humble Southerner who&#8217;s never thought much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/12/pour-myself-a-cup-of-ambition/</link>
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		<title>Uroboros</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Unreligious Right has spotted that rarer organism than the peregrine falcon, the beneficiary of a Stimulus-Created Created or Saved Funded Job.
Well, he didn&#8217;t actually spot the beneficiary.  He spotted the little placard that marks it, like an animal at the zoo.  Presumably, it only flits into view for those who pay for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/11/uroboros/</link>
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		<title>We never calculate the currency we&#8217;ve spent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Former Eric Massa Staffers:
The Daily News seems to be willing to swallow your implied self-characterization as victimized innocents:
&#8220;It&#8217;s like he had people trapped,&#8221; said a Hill source.
&#8230;
At the house on E St. Southeast yesterday, which Massa had shared with five of his staffers, clothes were piled on the floor and half-a-dozen pairs of shoes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/11/we-never-calculate-the-currency-weve-spent/</link>
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		<title>So many drinks, such pretty flowers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To show how depressingly little exaggeration there is in my little punch-related joke post the other day, there&#8217;s this piece at Reason.com by John Stossel about how licensing laws help established businesspeople stymie competition from new entrants:
In Louisiana, you can&#8217;t sell flower arrangements unless you have permission from the government. How do you get permission? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/11/so-many-drinks-such-pretty-flowers/</link>
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		<title>Punchline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie is the best kind of libertarian commenter&#8212;mouthy and cynical&#8212;but I think she&#8217;s going a bit light on Washington here:
The way things are going, I expect Nancy Pelosi’s staff will want to meet with couples personally to determine whether they are fit to get married and, if so, what type of punch they should serve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/09/punchline/</link>
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		<title>Madam must have absolute quiet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric posts about the wonderful movie villainy of Claude Rains; he mentions The Invisible Man, and a commenter mentions his most famous role, in Casablanca.  But for my money, his most chilling performance is in Notorious, especially in the scene at the beginning of this clip, with help from the wonderfully named Leopoldine Konstantin. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/06/madam-must-have-absolute-quiet/</link>
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		<title>The gifts that keep on giving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Line of the day, from Reason&#8217;s Shikha Dalmia:  &#8220;By contrast, few besides the government employees who run the no-brainer programs would even notice they were gone—especially because they have long outlived their uselessness.&#8221;  The no-brainer programs are the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/05/the-gifts-that-keep-on-giving/</link>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s a (pain de brioche) toast to dear old Penn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Rosenberg at PJM cites a head-scratcher of a policy adopted at my alma mater:
Inside Higher Ed has just reported (Feb. 26) that the University of Pennsylvania may be the first institution to launch what is described as an “outreach” program for gay students. That program, I think, suggests a number of interesting questions, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/04/heres-a-pain-de-brioche-toast-to-dear-old-penn/</link>
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		<title>I had some dreams/They were clouds in my coffee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This made me laugh aloud (via Instapundit):
Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: the Coffee Party.
It&#8217;s like those ads in the &#8217;80s:  &#8220;If you like Calvin Klein&#8217;s Obsession, you&#8217;ll LOVE Compulsion!&#8221;
The Coffee Party soi-disant movement is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whiteperil.com/2010/03/02/i-had-some-dreamsthey-were-clouds-in-my-coffee/</link>
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