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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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		<title>On Life In The Modern World, Or, What If Jesus Was An HMO?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those among us who are familiar with the Bible will recall that Jesus Christ himself was an active member of the health care community as he travelled about the Holy Land.
It is reported that he practiced within multiple medical specialties, and his works as both an ophthalmologist and a neurologist are recounted within the verses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=139&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/on-life-in-the-modern-world-or-what-if-jesus-was-an-hmo/</link>
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		<title>On Improbable Realities, Part One, Or, “I Want A Jet Car With Frickin’ Lasers…”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to getting around, Americans love to consider the question of “what if…?”
As a result, our cars have evolved into “land yachts”, our trucks have become “monster trucks”, and the desire to drag our living spaces around with us has morphed into converted busses with rooms that pop out of the side, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=137&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/on-improbable-realities-part-one-or-%e2%80%9ci-want-a-jet-car-with-frickin%e2%80%99-lasers%e2%80%a6%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>On Understanding Your Market, Or, Mr. Obama, We Need To Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it’s the day of the big speech, Mr. President, and we got trouble with a capital “T” right here in Health Care City.
What are you gonna do? Do we follow the traditional Democratic Party legislative process of passing&#8230;something&#8230;at any cost, assuming the entire time that the Left and the Netroots will “go along with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=135&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/on-understanding-your-market-or-mr-obama-we-need-to-talk/</link>
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		<title>On Disarmament, Or, How Congressman Larsen Made A &#8220;Town Hall&#8221; Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all been hearing the “Town Hall Meeting” stories the past few days, and the images presented have been of gatherings where you might see some current or former official “death panel” for the benefit of the crowd, where the few people who shout the loudest bully the rest into silence, and where threats of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fakeconsultant.wordpress.com&blog=1479711&post=133&subd=fakeconsultant&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://fakeconsultant.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/on-disarmament-or-how-congressman-larsen-made-a-town-hall-work/</link>
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