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		<title>Sucker Punched Very Slickly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As any writer of Southern literature would tell you, the central Gulf Coast is a tragic place. It is the final destination of many terrible hurricanes, including Katrina, Ivan, Camille, Betsy, Audrey, Andrew, and a plethora of unnamed hurricanes in the early 20th century that caused devastation equivalent to that of their named brethren. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Ready:  An Early Preview of the 2010 Hurricane Season</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the point of view of a snow lover, it was an excellent winter. But that is now long over for those of us in the Eastern United States. Many areas have already hit 90°F! Here in MS we have not, but I anticipate that some spot in the Gulf Coast states will reach this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=572</link>
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		<title>Nobody&#8217;s Pawn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was probably inevitable that this would happen, but let me go on record that, as we approach a likely final vote on the health insurance bill, I continue to stand firm in my stance that the bill should not pass, and if it does pass, it should be repealed. By continuing to hold this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=550</link>
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		<title>The Tea Party and the Conspiracist Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve observed the Tea Party with a surprisingly high amount of apolitical fascination, considering my political past on the other side of the spectrum. There is something about the movement&#8212;at least, its libertarian-oriented 2009 incarnation&#8212;that kind of appealed even to me, and I had an idea that it might be possible to join with them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=542</link>
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		<title>The Ministry of Truth Is Located in Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A little more than a decade ago, my family and I were heavily involved in the local public school system in one county in Mississippi. The school district was monumentally corrupt in many ways, from the fact that one could place a majority of the teachers in one school on the same three family trees, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=502</link>
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		<title>Turning It Off and Walking Away</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the media, the ratio of bad news to good is, needless to say, very high. This should come as no surprise to anyone when you consider both the business model of the news industry and the simple facts of life on Earth. The news media&#8212;especially the TV media&#8212;depend on people to stay hooked on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=498</link>
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		<title>+6°C</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forget the brouhaha about the ideologically motivated hackers who combed through megabytes of e-mails in order to find some indicating that, horrors, scientists are humans too and some of them will jazz up their data to make a point. It means nothing in terms of the credibility of anthropogenic climate change. All that the climate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=490</link>
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		<title>An Opt-Out Public Option Lets Red States SENTENCE THEIR PEOPLE TO DEATH by Popular Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we approach the endgame of the health care reform debate in Congress, an idea has been floated recently that might be the worst one I have yet encountered.  Yes, in my book it tops out mandates without a public option, taxing health care policies, triggers, and co-operative plans.  The idea is to have a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=487</link>
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		<title>Making It $0.04, Then:  Health Care Part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My previous blog about health care reform and Generation Y did not touch on one specific detail about the prospect of a mandates-only insurance law like the state of Massachusetts has. This follow-up will address that 800-pound gorilla and a bit more. Let&#8217;s take the hypothetical that Congress passes, and the President signs, a bill [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=481</link>
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		<title>My $0.02 on Health Care:  Beware the Sleeping Giant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve avoided saying anything on this blog about the health care debate, not because I don&#8217;t have an opinion, but because it seemed to vary on a daily basis about which way the debate was going, and anything I said would be obsolete very quickly unless I updated the blog each day as well (which [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.erinthead.com/blog/?p=468</link>
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