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		<title>Give a child approval, and he will learn to like himself</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2011/10/07/give-a-child-approval-he-will-learn-to-like-himself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:32:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened past a small sign placed in the front of an architectural firm downtown, and it had a number of little statements along these lines like: give a child criticism, and he will be a cynic.  They were both positive and negative and then I came to the one which is the title of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1153&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The right&#8217;s sudden love of austerity and balanced budgets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do conservative people own a lot of bonds or debt issues?  I guess it would make sense that they are too conservative to own equities, so maybe it&#8217;s the case.  Are they Chinese?  What&#8217;s behind the idea that we should prevent any inflation?  By the way, inflation is a great way to get rid of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1141&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying of gay teens</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2011/09/24/bullying-of-gay-teens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 17:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the conundrums of gay teen suicide is the dynamic of how bullying leads to suicide.  A recent NYTimes op-ed doesn&#8217;t seem to enlighten us too much on the issue. I call it a conundrum because on the face of it, it seems the ultimate case of doing what your opponent wants.  If a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1118&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What the average American says to themselves? &#8220;I&#8217;m so rich, I&#8217;m just like those billionaires who don&#8217;t pay no federal income taxes&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2011/07/19/what-the-average-american-says-to-themselves-im-so-rich-im-just-like-those-billionaires-who-dont-pay-no-federal-income-taxes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 07:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always wondered about the Republican argument that people don&#8217;t want taxes raised on the rich.  They say that this is because they (Americans?) are aspirational and always thinking about when they might be that rich.  Let me try to follow that reasoning&#8230; $40,000/yr might sound to some like a lot of money.  When the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1094&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gunman, no such thing as gunwoman</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 04:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a way it&#8217;s not a surprise that the word &#8216;gunwoman&#8217; doesn&#8217;t exist. But still, I guess it&#8217;s incredibly rare for a woman to fire a gun.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1088&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are unelectables running?</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2011/06/06/why-are-unelectables-running/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jun 2011 15:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bert5.wordpress.com/?p=1086</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not that there seems little to lose from running, there must be a lot to be gained from running, even if you do lose.  Perhaps now candidates can funnel campaign money into anything they like, but especially paying huge salaries to friends and spending extravagantly on themselves even while their campaigns flounder (Gingrich spends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1086&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan and bin Laden</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2011/05/02/afghanistan-and-bin-laden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 May 2011 06:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This seems to clarify things very significantly.  It&#8217;s interesting that I think it would be very politically palatable to withdraw from Afghanistan now.  If only Bush was able to get bin Laden in 2001 or 2002, a lot of US treasure might have been saved.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1077&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jared Loughner&#8217;s Todo list (sarcastic)</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2011/01/11/jared-loughners-todo-list-sarcastic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[It's a strange thing but virtually all searches coming to this post are asking if Loughner was gay.  My personal opinion is this is extremely unlikely.  No gay guy would make himself bald when he could obviously easily have a full head of hair.  Similarly, the (hideous) teenage long curly locks is a style only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1049&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wives don&#8217;t wonder whether their husbands are gay over the holidays</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/wives-dont-wonder-whether-their-husbands-are-gay-over-the-holidays/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A quick check of the visitor stats on my 4 year old blog post on the topic which still gets visits fairly regularly sees big lulls over Thanksgiving and Christmas.  Maybe it&#8217;ll come back after New Years&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1041&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Height and gayness</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2010/12/15/height-and-gayness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If studies of male homosexuality are to be believed, you are more likely to be gay if you have more older brothers.  This implies that if you are gay your birth order number is likely to be greater than the normal population.  Birth order has been found to relate slightly to height to the tune [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=843&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Putnam @Stanford: American Grace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Author's note: americangrace.org/press.html has labeled my blog as reactionary.  I had to look it up, but reactionary means conservative.  Sorry folks, this is a radically liberal blog.] I found Putnam&#8217;s book &#8216;Bowling Alone&#8217; fascinating, so I was fairly enthusiastic to hear Putnam talk at Stanford about his new book &#8216;American Grace&#8217; even though it has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=1001&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You&#8217;re disgusting!  No, you are!</title>
		<link>http://bert5.wordpress.com/2010/11/14/youre-disgusting-no-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re a polite person, you don&#8217;t go around saying other people are disgusting and not to their face.  You think you&#8217;re being honest and saying something &#8216;obvious&#8217; that everyone else must feel.  But no, this is not polite, and you&#8217;re not being a nice person by being &#8216;honest&#8217;. This is not something I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bert5.wordpress.com&amp;blog=36822&amp;post=993&amp;subd=bert5&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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