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		<title>Limbaugh Victim of His Own Entertainment</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/limbaugh-victim-of-his-own-entertainment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh, reportedly, will be removed from a group of potential investors seeking to purchase the NFL&#8217;s St. Louis Rams according to ESPN. Naturally, when it concerns a personality archetype the caliber of Rush Limbaugh, you have a starkly divided community on the issue.  Even more predictably is the type of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=557&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Reason Obama Can&#8217;t Shake Hands With Chavez</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/the-real-reason-obama-cant-shake-hands-with-chavez/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugo Chavez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Summit of the Americas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama was photographed smiling and shaking hands with President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela at the Summit of the America&#8217;s.  The incident has drawn criticism for Obama, specifically that his behavior with Chavez endangers America&#8217;s prestige.  The crux of the critique is that we can&#8217;t be seen as soft, while providing Chavez with political leverage [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=552&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study Supports Expert Bias</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/study-supports-expert-bias/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Expert Bias]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nicholas Nassim Taleb]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/?p=543</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ne of the more common logical mistakes we make is to turn to the expert bias, also known as the logical fallacy arguing from authority.  The logical error is committed by espousing expert credentials for sound logic, in order to make a logical argument.  A logical argument is founded on logic alone.  No amount of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=543&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Second Life: Relationships In Hyper Speed</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/second-life-relationships-in-hyperspeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone familiar with the game Second Life will agree that it is equally part intriguing and equally part mind numbing.  On on hand, Second Life exists as an endless journey of the imagination where whatever the mind can fathom, can be created with enough hard work and patience.  Yet, on the converse side, and for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=540&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama Hasn&#8217;t Ruined The World</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/obama-hasnt-ruined-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:34:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barak Obama]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to point out, that despite all the doomsday calls prior to the Presidential election for the fall of democracy and the American way of life by extreme right-wing supporters, we&#8217;re still here and nothing much has changed. You know who you are.  Just a word of advice&#8230;don&#8217;t make political predicting a career.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=537&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mounting Civilian Deaths In Afghanistan Pose Problem For Obama</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/03/07/mounting-civilian-deaths-in-afghanistan-pose-problem-for-obama/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2009 17:33:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barak Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Taliban]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United Nations released a report accounting for civilian deaths in Afghanistan in 2008.  The report indicates that the civilian death toll rose 40% from 2007, jumping from 1,523 to 2,118 for the past year.  The total surpassing two thousand marks the highest number of civilian causalities in any calender year since the Taliban was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=526&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Argument of The Converse Hypothetical</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/the-argument-of-the-converse-hypothetical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:37:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barak Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Converse Hypothetical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[George Bush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jessica Simpson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tom Bowerly]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was listening to a WBEN the other day, a local Buffalo news and talk show radio station, when I heard a clip from the morning show hosted by Tom Bowerly.  It immediately struck me as insanely illogical. Bowerly, a typical radio conservative talk show host, sticks to his anti-Democrat, anti-Obama talking points.  In this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=509&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Foreign Policy: Maintaining the Status Quo</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/02/10/the-obama-foreign-policy-maintaining-the-status-quo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 22:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Israel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Water Boarding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[American foreign policy since World War I, and more so following the conclusion of World War II, has maintained one critical element above all else &#8211; to secure and preserve American power.  The definition of American power takes numerous forms.  A short list includes exploiting foreign resources for the benefit of American private industry, eliminating [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=507&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rationalization Behind Cheating</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/the-rationalization-behind-cheating/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rationale]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chances are if your an adult, you&#8217;ve been in a relationship that ended because either yourself, or your significant other, cheated.  There is a distinct rationalizing process that occurs on the part of the cheater, both during the affair and when dealing with the aftermath.  This should be of interest to anyone who has cheated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=496&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem of Correlation As Causation</title>
		<link>http://thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/the-problem-of-correlation-as-causation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:25:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>huxbux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Philosophy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Causality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Correlation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Randomness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The confusion of supplanting correlation for causation is one of the most common logical fallacies we make.  This is the fallacy of correlation.  The basic premise is that you will attribute a connection between two experiences as the root cause of one experience being the cause of the other. While it&#8217;s one of the easiest [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thoughtrefuse.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4595331&amp;post=476&amp;subd=thoughtrefuse&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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