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	<description>I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness</description>
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		<title>Heating With Pellets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lately I&#8217;ve been kept busy with our latest purchase: a new wood pellet stove. Previously we heated with wood. Which, sure, is quaint and all. But wood has serious drawbacks, while pellets have numerous advantages as a highly efficient biofuel. (I tried to Google for a quick and easy primer but couldn&#8217;t find anything too [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/heating-with-pellets/</link>
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		<title>Bizzy In Vactionland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We drove up to Maine last Tuesday to help out following a relative&#8217;s bypass surgery. Been keeping busy around the house. In my spare time, I&#8217;ve been reading The Art of Racing in the Rain and watching the Discovery Health channel for cheap thrills. Although I fear that one more episode of mysterious tumors, face [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/bizzy-in-vactionland/</link>
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		<title>White Spaces Victory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I missed this little gem until Google (via their Free the Airwaves campaign) alerted me to it today:
All eyes are on the presidential election today, but another important vote just took place at the Federal Communications Commission. By a vote of 5-0, the FCC formally agreed to open up the &#8220;white spaces&#8221; spectrum &#8212; the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/white-spaces-victory/</link>
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		<title>Thank You, America</title>
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I&#8217;m currently sitting in a cafe using their wifi, having coffee and a wrap, and soaking in the positive atmosphere. Even though he led virtually the entire campaign and all indicators pointed toward an Obama win (FiveThirtyEight&#8217;s predictions were spot-on) nobody took this result for granted. The full import has yet to fully sink in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/thank-you-america/</link>
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		<title>Review: Motorola FONE F3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PRO: My techie side loves the attractive design, unique display, and slim profile. The resurgent luddite inside me loves the simplicity of it all.
CON: Unorthodox menu and messaging take getting used to; some limitations if you text message heavily.
I don&#8217;t remember the exact series of events, but the other day I stumbled upon information about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/review-motorola-fone-f3/</link>
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		<title>3rd Parties And Shades Of Grey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the other day I received a political flyer in the mail, not from Obama, McGaughey, or Gillibrand, but Cynthia McKinney and Rosa Clemente, the Green Party&#8217;s Prez / Veep candidates. I&#8217;m registered Green and one of only a half dozen (at most!) in my entire district, so I&#8217;m just surprised they found my name [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/3rd-parties-and-shades-of-grey/</link>
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		<title>Moving The Undecideds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will undecided voters move toward McCain come election day? Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight doesn&#8217;t think so -
The Undecideds
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A somewhat higher proportion of whites (and Latinos) are uncommitted, but the differences are not overwhelming.
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Another problem is that we haven&#8217;t been distinguishing undecided voters from third-party voters. There is an argument that third-party voters should be treated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/moving-the-undecideds/</link>
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		<title>McCain Crowds Still Ugly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From FiveThirtyEight.com: McCain Miami Rally, Getting Ugly Down Here
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After the rally, we witnessed a near-street riot involving the exiting McCain crowd and two Cuban-American Obama supporters. Tony Garcia, 63, and Raul Sorando, 31, were suddenly surrounded by an angry mob. There is a moment in a crowd when something goes from mere yelling to a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/mccain-crowds-still-ugly/</link>
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		<title>Selling Self</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I&#8217;m really trying to renew my job search because I can&#8217;t let myself stay unemployed for much longer. It&#8217;s unhealthy, unproductive, and I&#8217;ve got bills to pay. It&#8217;s been a month since I quit, and I really wanted to have found something else by now.
What am I going to do differently?

Use RSS to my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/selling-self/</link>
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		<title>AutoX Year-End Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we ended up having a bonus 7th event on October 19th at a new location in Clifton Park. It&#8217;s a very small parking lot and I&#8217;m not sure how many events we&#8217;ll hold there in the future. Cramped.

I finished 3rd, as usual. Didn&#8217;t bring the r-compound tires since it was a cold Sunday and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/autox-year-end-roundup/</link>
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		<title>Latest Obama Ad, McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So have you seen this latest Obama ad? The one that starts out with a clip of McCain at the 3rd debate saying &#8220;I&#8217;m not President Bush&#8221;? And then the voiceover goes &#8220;Truuueee, but..&#8221;?
I absolutely love this ad. I dunno how effective it is, no judgement there. But the voiceover guy is genius in taking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/898/</link>
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		<title>Site Update Quickie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a few changes to the site today. Changed the header, minimal updates to the MINI and About sections.
I&#8217;ve been watching a lot of Letterman. I was uncomfortable even sitting in my living room watching McCain attempt humor. But Tina Fey was great last night. Tonight is supposed to be the night we get [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/site-update-quickie/</link>
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		<title>Internet Usage Theorem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a direct correlation between the amount of blog posts and the total time spent online. My last day at the job I quit was nearly a month ago. Since losing out on that 40hrs spent on high speed internet every week, I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of offline activities. This means dry-walling, helping to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/internet-usage-theorem/</link>
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		<title>Wacky World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So it&#8217;s been a crazy week for presidential politics. McCain continues his dysfunctional campaign and Congress continues to work on a bailout. I&#8217;ve been away from the internet for the past week, but have had access to cable. So I watched the cable news shows and discovered that their explicit editorializing was a nice change [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/wacky-world/</link>
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		<title>Wasilla Seems Nice.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So this past weekend while watching Tina Fey do an absolutely amazing Sarah Palin on SNL, I learn that Wasilla is the meth capital of Alaska. Today, while perusing FiveThiryEight.com, I learn that while Palin was mayor of the town, rape victims were required to pay for their own forsenic tests. A practice only in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/wasilla-seems-nice/</link>
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		<title>Palin&#8217;s First (Real) Words&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without being smarmy about it or unfurling gotcha questions, ABC News anchor Charles Gibson demonstrated that he knows volumes more about national security and foreign policy than does Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
To say I was unimpressed with Palin&#8217;s performance would be an understatement. I didn&#8217;t know what to expect since she&#8217;s been on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/palins-first-real-words/</link>
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		<title>Lipstick And Pigs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s article, courtesy of Slate, on the topic of lipstick, pigs, and putting the two together.
McCain&#8217;s campaign perfects its outrage over sexism.
All campaigns must change in order to handle the arrival of a vice-presidential candidate. To accommodate Sarah Palin, John McCain&#8217;s Straight Talk Express has now installed a fainting couch. It&#8217;s not for the vice-presidential [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/lipstick-and-pigs/</link>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day 9/9</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They spent a lot of time talking about John McCain&#8217;s biography, which is compelling, and Sarah Palin&#8217;s biography. She&#8217;s a mother, a governor, a moose shooter &#8212; and that&#8217;s cool stuff,&#8221; Obama said of his opponents during his hour-long town hall in Farmington Hills. &#8220;Then they spent a long time talking about me. They didn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Today&#8217;s Op-Ed: The Next 56 Days</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the sort of editorial I would write if I had more than fiften minutes to spend on this blog each day. I think Paul Begala makes some pretty salient points, regardless of whether you agree with his overall prognosis. Strip away the editorializing, and this is probably how the election will shape up.
What [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/todays-op-ed-the-next-56-days/</link>
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		<title>Comment Sections In &#8216;08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It struck me awhile back how the now ubiquitous comment section at the end of articles on virtually every website is a recent phenom. It wasn&#8217;t that popular even four years ago during the last presidential cycle. This got me thinking on the purpose and impact of these comments. Is anyone ever swayed by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/comment-sections-in-08/</link>
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		<title>Palin Speaks! (So Does McCain..)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain&#8217;s presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.
&#8220;This election is not about issues,&#8221; said Davis. &#8220;This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.&#8221;
Well obviously. Elections are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/palin-speaks/</link>
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		<title>Palin Woes and Polling Results Post-DNC Convention</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone noticed that Sarah Palin&#8217;s central claim to political fame is a fraud? She represents herself as a fiscal conservative who abhors pork-barrel projects and said no thanks to the &#8220;bridge to nowhere&#8221; &#8212; a $398 million span that would have linked Ketchikan, Alaska, to its airport across the Tongass Narrows. But as mayor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/palin-woes-and-polling-results-post-dnc-convention/</link>
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		<title>The DNC! (And&#8230; Palin?)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I read transcripts and caught sounds bites of Michelle Obama&#8217;s speech, and I thought &#8220;OK, someone more informed than me thinks this is needed. Fine.&#8221;
Then I watched Hillary on day 2, and I let out a sigh of relief. Besides the odd introductory video&#8230; On message, clear, articulate, and a solid endorsement of her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/the-dnc/</link>
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		<title>Northeast Divisionals &#8216;08</title>
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(image courtesy of Jane Quinn, full photoset available here)
So I went to the NE Divisionals earlier this month (Aug. 9th-10th). This was a two-day autocross at Seneca Army Depot in Romulus, NY. I camped with my parents, and it almost felt like a homecoming being back in the finger lakes region (Romulus is in between [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/northeast-divisionals-08/</link>
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		<title>Latest Polling Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first poll with McCain ahead by 5% last week got a lot of press, but here&#8217;s one with more interesting results&#8230;
One intriguing result from Sunday&#8217;s Washington Post/ABC poll (which showed Barack Obama maintaining a narrow, 4 percent lead among likely voters) was the Democratic candidate&#8217;s vault over John McCain on the question of leadership.
For [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/latest-polling-results/</link>
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		<title>What Up With The Clintons?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet Hillary delegate Nancy Saboori of Newton sat weeping, literally, over breakfast yesterday morning. “I’m so upset I can’t even talk,” said Saboori, 59. “I know the fix is in (for Obama). She won Ohio. They told her to drop out. She won Pennsylvania. They told her to drop out.”
Count Saboori among that 30 percent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/what-up-with-the-clintons/</link>
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		<title>Biden!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I refuse to sit back like we did in 2000 and 2004,” Biden said after Obama clinched the Democratic nomination, when the first indications that Republicans were planning a campaign of unrelenting negative attacks on Obama’s alleged softness or naivete on national security of the kind that worked so tellingly on behalf of George W. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/biden/</link>
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		<title>McCain Camp Attempts, Fails, Lies, RE: Weather Underground</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here are all of the salient points in regards to the renewed (yet still pathetic) attempt to connect Obama to the Weather Underground (the most pressing and recent terrorist group that McCain can remember offhand, apparently):
Independent Group With Links to McCain Campaign Assails Obama on Ayers
&#8220;Beyond the speeches, how much do you know about Barack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/mccain-camp-attempts-fails-lies-re-weather-underground/</link>
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		<title>McCain Doesn&#8217;t Know Where He Lives?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Wednesday that he was uncertain how many houses he and his wife, Cindy, own. 
&#8220;I think — I&#8217;ll have my staff get to you,&#8221; McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. &#8220;It&#8217;s condominiums where — I&#8217;ll have them get to you.&#8221;
The correct answer is at least four, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/mccain-doesnt-know-where-he-lives/</link>
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		<title>Fox News: &#8220;How Obama Raises Your Taxes&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s Tax Proposals Make a Complex System Worse, John R. Lott, Jr.
I read this article with interest, because while I do not have as extensive a background in economics as Lott, I&#8217;m still capable of critical thinking.
One approach [to lower taxes] is to lower the marginal tax rate, the percentage taken for each additional dollar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.whitemaleconsumer.com/archives/2008/fox-news-how-obama-raises-your-taxes/</link>
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