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		<title>On Getting Found, Or, Search Engines: Is There A Difference?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a story today that comes from my predilection to “self-syndicate”, meaning that I post my stories far and wide, in the same way a newspaper columnist is syndicated nationally—or beyond.
After I post, I know others will also post my stories to their sites, a topic that was itself the subject of a recent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=160&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/12/06/on-getting-found-or-search-engines-is-there-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>On Murdoch And Google, Or, Hey, Rupert, Where&#8217;s My Check?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our favorite irascible media tyrant is in the news once again, and once again it’s time for me to bring you a story of doing one thing while wishing for another.
In a November 6th interview, Sky News Australia’s David Speers spent about 35 minutes with the CEO of NewsCorp, Rupert Murdoch; the conversation covering topics [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=158&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/on-murdoch-and-google-or-hey-rupert-wheres-my-check/</link>
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		<title>On Determining Impact, Or, How Stimulative Is Stimulus?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We strive to be, if anything, a participatory space around here, and I’ve had a question come to my inbox that is very much deserving of our attention.
To make a long story short, our questioner wants to know why, on the one hand, despite the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=156&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/on-determining-impact-or-how-stimulative-is-stimulus/</link>
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		<title>At 50th Birthday Party, Geov Parrish Announces New Lobbying Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SEATTLE (FNS)&#8211;Longtime activist Geov Parrish unexpectedly revealed to the crowd gathered to celebrate his 50th birthday Friday evening his impending plans to end his decades-long career as a public issues advocate in exchange for new opportunities in the field of corporate communications management and image development.
The announcement appeared to be even more shocking to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=154&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/at-50th-birthday-party-geov-parrish-announces-new-lobbying-career/</link>
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		<title>On Paying For Immoral Things, Or, Is Stupak On To Something?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There has been a great wailing and gnashing of teeth over the past day or so as those who follow the healthcare debate react to the Stupak/Some Creepy Republican Guy Amendment.
The Amendment, which is apparently intended to respond to conservative Democrats’ concerns that too many women were voting for the Party in recent elections, was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=152&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/on-paying-for-immoral-things-or-is-stupak-on-to-something/</link>
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		<title>On Projecting R-71&#8217;s Outcome, Or, We Visit A Political Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past few days we have been talking about Washington State’s Referendum 71, which was voted on this week. If passed, the Referendum will codify in law certain protections for same-sex couples.
In the first story of our three-part series we discussed Washington’s unusual vote-by-mail system; in the second we examined the pre-election polling.
Today we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=150&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/on-projecting-r-71s-outcome-or-we-visit-a-political-party/</link>
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		<title>On A New System (Sort Of), Or, Referendum 71 And Mail-In Voting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are now about two weeks away from the November election in Washington State, and one item on the ballot that has national attention is Referendum 71, the so-called “everything but marriage” proposal that would give same-sex couples more rights and protections than they have today.
There has been a lot of conversation about whether it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=148&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/on-a-new-system-sort-of-or-referendum-71-and-mail-in-voting/</link>
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		<title>On Being A Government DJ, Or, “Torture? You Call That Torture?”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s become more or less common knowledge that US forces have been using music as an operational tool for some time now, and I&#8217;ve begun seeing lists of the songs that are being used either to inflict pain, to demoralize, or to just generally disorient various people in various sorts of situations.
There are others, wiser [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=145&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/on-being-a-government-dj-or-%e2%80%9ctorture-you-call-that-torture%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>On Using Mr. Bullhorn, Or, DC Health Summit Thursday: Come Say Hi&#8230;Loudly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a long hot August for those who would like to see health care reform, as rabid “Town Hall” protesters proffered visions of public options that would lead to death panels and socialism and government tax collectors with special alien mind control powers that would use sex education and child indoctrination and black helicopters [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=143&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/on-using-mr-bullhorn-or-dc-health-summit-thursday-come-say-hi-loudly/</link>
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		<title>On Learning To Love Homegrown, Or, Baucus&#8217; Fundraising Considered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we are now finding out the answers to some of our questions about which members of Congress actually represent We, the People&#8230;and which ones represent, Them, the Corporate Masters.
We have seen a Democratic Senator propose a policy that would put people in jail for not buying health insurance and a Democratic President who has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=141&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/on-learning-to-love-homegrown-or-baucus-fundraising-considered/</link>
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