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		<title>Remembering Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have three memories of Christopher Hitchens, who died this week, that are worth sharing. I first got to know Christopher when I began working at The Nation magazine in 1983, when he was then writing his Minority Report column. I started there as an intern, and slowly made my way up the publishing and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rich are Neither Happy Nor Smart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, when people are offered a huge reward for their labors (i.e. high pay) they make worse decisions than when they&#8217;re offered a moderate prize, Dan Ariely shows in this talk he gave at PopTech in 2009. Money is a double-edged sword, Ariely argues, it&#8217;s a motivator and a stress-inducer. People who are completing a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micah.sifry.com/2011/08/the-rich-are-neither-happy-nor-smart/</link>
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		<title>Who Organized That?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before this blog existed, I had an earlier on called IraqWarReader.com, which started out as a place for me and Christopher Cerf to post stuff related to our 2003 book of the same title, but over time it also evolved into covering more of my personal journey into the internet-politics arena. In October 2004, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qwikileaks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s true, I am writing a book, entitled WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency, exclusively available from that link. In the wake of a very successful event that we at Personal Democracy Forum did on WikiLeaks on December 11th (see PdFLeaks for details), John Oakes&#8211;the &#8216;O&#8217; in OR Books and an old college friend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finally, back on line!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t have blogging privileges turned on.]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on PopTech08, and Life At the End of the World as We Know It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[October 22, 2008 Camden, Maine Dear Mira and Jesse: Here&#8217;s what it felt like at the end of the world as we know it on one day in October. This morning, I heard a wise man who knew everything that was possible to know about numbers, and how much energy it takes to run the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Looting Decade: S&amp;Ls, Big Banks, and Other Triumphs of Capitalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Have the poor suckers of this world ever lived in an age that offered such entertainment? Costly, to be sure, and they are the ones who are going to pay for it, but at least they are getting to watch some wonderful burlesque&#8211;first the pirates of a fraudulent system of communism forced to scuttle their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It All Depends On Your Point of View</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love the FAIL blog, for its mordant and ironic view of daily life. And so every couple of days, when I catch up with it, I typically send at least one link around to my family for their amusement. The other day, I sent them this photo of &#8220;SaladFail&#8221;: I also love my wife, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micah.sifry.com/2008/04/it-all-depends-on-your-point-of-view/</link>
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		<title>Who Will Watchdog the Financial Watchdogs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading the long take-out in this Sunday&#8217;s New York Times Business Section on Wall Street&#8217;s meltdown, &#8220;What Created This Monster?&#8220;, I couldn&#8217;t help but be struck by a few things. For example, Rep. Barney Frank admits that it wasn&#8217;t until sometime last year that he realized that all the deregulation pushes of the 1990s had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://micah.sifry.com/2008/03/who-will-watchdog-the-financial-watchdogs/</link>
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		<title>Politicians and Prostitutes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My pal Nancy Watzman forwarded this clip from the Daily News on the travels and trysts of our ex-Governor Eliot Spitzer: When disgraced Gov. Spitzer arranged hookups with high-priced prostitutes at out-of-state hotels, he would always have another reason to make the trip. Sometimes it was a campaign fund-raiser. One city where investigators say Spitzer [...]]]></description>
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