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	<description>To add insult to injury, the platypus is leading.</description>
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		<title>Vanity Fair Goes Barracuda Fishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Vanity Fair has an article up containing a fairly unflattering profile of my favorite Alaska Governor turned failed Vice-Presidential candidate turned ex-Alaska Governor turned talking head/public speaker. Yes, none other than Sarah Palin. Two years after she first achieved national recognition as John McCain's perplexing choice of running-mate, Palin still manages to keep her name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/09/04/vanity-fair-goes-barracuda-fishing/</link>
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		<title>A New Chick Tract &#8211; &#8220;Things To Come?&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven't written about Jack Chick and his religious tracts before.  Joshua Zelinsky has reviewed a few of them on occasion (such as the two he talks about here), but the urge to do so has never really hit me until recently. Chick tracts, for those who don't know, are the little comic-book-like religious pamphlets that you sometimes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/09/04/a-new-chick-tract/</link>
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		<title>Cripes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I haven't fallen off the face of the Earth, nor have I been eaten by a sharktopus. The previously mentioned job change occurred a couple of weeks ago, and I haven't adapted to the new schedule as quickly as I'd hoped. Anyhow, I've got a couple of articles queued up that I should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/08/27/cripes/</link>
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		<title>Retro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I distinctly remember the afternoon of my 13th birthday.   I bolted home from the bus stop, because I knew that waiting for me at home was The Most Awesome Video Game Experience Ever!   The object of my obsession was a new offering for the Atari 2600 console, Haunted House.   Haunted House could be thought of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/08/12/retro/</link>
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		<title>Sharktopus.  Really.  I&#8217;m Not Kidding.  And A Special Treat.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when I got comfortable thinking that Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus set the low water mark for entertainment, SyFy comes along and produces Sharktopus.  (Thanks, Miss C.  Thanks SO much  .)  I knew it was coming, but some small part of me held out hope that it would never see the light of day.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/08/08/sharktopus-really-im-not-kidding-and-a-special-treat/</link>
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		<title>The Vileness That is Westboro</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you know this man? This is Fred Phelps.  There's a special little corner of hell reserved for him. Fred is the leader of a vile, hate-based organization known as Westboro Baptist Church.  Westboro has made a name for itself by staging protests at things like the funerals of soldiers, the funerals of hate-crime victims, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Evolution Refresher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Geeks are Sexy has a nice post from a bit over a year ago giving a solid, high-level overview of evolution.  It also includes an excellent 10 minute video that I'm including below, because it deserves as wide an audience as possible (I may have posted this before.  If I haven't, I should have). The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/08/07/a-short-evolution-refresher/</link>
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		<title>Phil Plait on TV!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Phil Plait of Bad Astronomy fame is getting his own Discovery Channel show sometime this fall - Phil Plait's Bad Universe.  I'm looking forward to this show - I haven't been terribly impressed with the Discovery Channel for several years now, but I've read enough of Phil's work to know that he"ll do this right, and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/07/26/phil-plait-on-tv/</link>
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		<title>TED Talks: Matt Ridley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Matt Ridley, the author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature, gave a recent TED Talk - When Ideas Have Sex.  The main idea here is that ideas interact with each other to produce new ideas, and those new ideas drive progress.  Enjoy. -Jay]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/07/15/ted-talks-matt-ridley/</link>
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		<title>Letters To The Editor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The written word is a wonderful thing.  It serves as a transmission vector for knowledge and culture, and allows us to express ourselves in ways that the spoken word can't.  Anyone who has ever gotten caught up in a good book and suddenly realized that it's 3:00 AM knows what I'm talking about.  The written [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.cleverbadger.net/2010/07/14/letters-to-the-editor/</link>
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