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		<title>Dow 13,000 Will Set Off New Waves of Hypocrisy This Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Dow Jones Industrial Average will start the trading day today at a four-year high and  about 50 points away from the psychologically important level of 13,000.  Especially with the news this morning of a $170 billion Greece bailout, the Dow could easily set a new high today. Similarly, the S&#38;P 500 has gained more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=269&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense of Hatred</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pat Buchanan]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[political correctness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In some respects, there’s nothing wrong with MSNBC’s firing of Pat Buchanan.   Because we live in a free society, the commentator was free to publish a book that demeans homosexuals and non-Christians, and MSNBC was free to fire him.  Arguably, no one committed a crime here.  So, why did this supposed non-event trigger such as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=252&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes! Buchanan Holds Hateful Beliefs, But&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:14:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Abe Foxman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We embrace freedom of speech as an abstract principle, but we often hate nothing more than a concrete human being speaking and writing freely.  Shame on MSNBC for firing Pat Buchanan for his hateful beliefs and writings.  Buchanan is right: much of the hate speech that compelled MSNBC to fire him was nothing more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=248&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putin&#8217;s Latest Anti-American Tantrums Stir Neo-Con Passions</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 18:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several stories in top-tier U.S. and Russian media chronicle the increasingly vehement anti-American rhetoric in Vladimir Putin&#8217;s presidential campaign.   In particular, the articles note, Putin has turned into a mantra the claim that America is trying to weaken and marginalize Russia, to push the country back into the chaos and geopolitical oblivion that followed the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=241&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Joseph Campbell</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Christopher Hitchens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Dennet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Campbell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[No author has taught me more about mythology than Joseph Campbell, the author of The Masks of God, The Hero with a Thousand Faces and many other books that collectively represent a big bang of sorts in the world&#8217;s intellectual history. Here, I wanted to highlight one of the important ideas in Campell&#8217;s work, focusing on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=238&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Meditation on Sound and Silence</title>
		<link>http://janashvili.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/a-meditation-on-sound-and-silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is something I thumb-wrote on my iPhone’s notepad, on a beautiful breezy night in Mexico, during the best vacation of my life, to the hushing sound of tepid waves. I gave myself plenty of time on this vacation to reflect, to breathe, to meditate, and simply to be. Whether we write them down or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=232&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Program or Be Programmed: A Book Review</title>
		<link>http://janashvili.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/program-or-be-programmed-a-book-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 09:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[linkedin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rushkoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have been using social media for years without any formal introduction to the &#8220;governing dynamics&#8221; of the digitally networked world.  Douglas Rushkoff&#8217;s Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commandments for the Digital Age offers an introduction, a set of guiding principles as well as a meditation/poetics of sorts on the pains and pleasures of living, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=224&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thou Art My Thou</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:58:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[I]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Tree in forest]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The tree in the forest makes a sound. Think about what exactly differentiates fundamentally optimistic narratives from fundamentally pessimistic narratives.  In both types, the Hero faces agonist and antagonist objects.  The prevailing tendency in the resolution of these encounters sets the emotional tone of the narrative. In optimistic narratives, the Hero predominantly triumphs, grows bigger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=212&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An Atheist Artist&#8217;s Prayer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 03:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[agnostic]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any non-theist nurturing an artistic vision should acknowledge that the expression of this vision is sacred work. An atheist or an agnostic might cringe at the idea of prayer, simply because it so easily evokes the idea of or god, or some object or recipient who hears and answers the prayer.  Even in its intransitive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=210&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Healing the Wounded Idealist</title>
		<link>http://janashvili.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/healing-the-wounded-idealist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are all wounded idealists gripped by impotent rage.  We see so much injustice, so much suffering of the innocent and the joys of the wicked.  We see mediocrities succeed and noble spirits writhe in pain.  We see our best ideas trampled in the sewers of baser minds.  We feel the sting of these ironies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=janashvili.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10092413&amp;post=219&amp;subd=janashvili&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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