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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 14:28:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It looks like Duke Energy is nearing a deal to buy Progress Energy, both nuclear utilities.  More &#62;&#62;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=693&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Williams, A National Tea Party Leader, On The Topic Muslim Worship</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 05:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick O&#39;Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The incident: Mark Williams, chairman of the Tea Party Express, blogged about the 13-story mosque and Islamic cultural center planned at Park Place and Broadway, calling it a monument to the 9/11 terrorists. &#8220;The monument would consist of a Mosque for the worship of the terrorists&#8217; monkey-god,&#8221; Williams, a frequent guest on CNN, wrote on his Web &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/mark-williams-a-national-tea-party-leader-on-the-topic-muslim-worship/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=394&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rand Paul Comments And A Local Blogger Get&#8217;s Some National Play</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 05:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick O&#39;Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Page One Kentucky is a great blog on Kentucky politics and I&#8217;m really happy to see it receive some national attention, all thanks to Mr. Rand Paul. Rand Paul’s appearance last evening on Rachel Maddow wasn’t the first time he made comments about racial discrimination. In a May 30, 2002 letter to the editor of &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/rand-paul-comments-and-a-local-blogger-gets-some-national-play/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=395&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flooding in Tarnobrzeg and Sandomierz (where I spent much of my time in Poland)&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick O&#39;Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pietaka street in the photo directly above is where I had stayed part of my time in Poland. Absolutely devastating&#8230; Here are the rest of the photos and here is an iReport on the flooding.  UPDATE MAY 24, 2010:   A 49-year-old man from Tarnobrzeg, south-east Poland, is the latest victim of the floods, which &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/flooding-in-tarnobrzeg-and-sandomierz-where-i-spent-much-of-my-time-in-poland/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=396&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What I Read (And How I Read It).</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 01:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Patrick O&#39;Dowd</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlatic&#8217;s series of articles where they have various journalist describe their media consumption diets has been a lot of fun to read. Beyond that though, they&#8217;re an interesting look at the amount of information we all consume. My routine of information consumption is something I actually think about quite a bit and I&#8217;m constantly trying &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/what-i-read-and-how-i-read-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=397&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GOP Senate Candidates</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of the two major GOP candidates, Paul has been by far the purer: Trey Grayson wants to balance the budget eventually, but Paul wants to do it in a single year. Grayson wants to rein in earmarks without banishing them outright (Kentucky benefits greatly from earmarks, especially given McConnell&#8217;s seniority), Paul wants to do away &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/18/gop-senate-candidates/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=398&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review &#8211; &#8216;The Ask,&#8217; by Sam Lipsyte &#8211; NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 01:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In truth, satire remains alive across most American media. In print and online we have The Onion and others; on TV we have “The Daily Show” and “The Colbert Report” and “The Office.” Satire clearly still has the power to captivate; American culture does not suffer from a lack of smart satire in general, or &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/book-review-the-ask-by-sam-lipsyte-nytimes-com/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=399&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ask: A Novel &amp; the @slate Culture Gabfest!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So summer is off to a flying start and I&#8217;m already on my third book, The Ask: A Novel by Sam Lipsyte! I had never heard of it until I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts, the Slate Culture Gabfest. They&#8217;re having their first live show next week in New York and in preparation &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/the-ask-a-novel-the-slate-culture-gabfest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=400&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lingua Franca &#124; Is Bad Writing Necessary?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 01:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[These are trying times for the left in America, which may be one reason why a bitter debate has erupted among avowedly left-wing academics and intellectuals over a venerable topic&#8211;&#8221;Politics and the English Language,&#8221; to borrow the title of George Orwell&#8217;s famous 1946 essay. Must one write clearly, as Orwell argued, or are thinkers who &#8230; <a href="http://patrickodowd.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/lingua-franca-is-bad-writing-necessary/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=patrickodowd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6344543&amp;post=401&amp;subd=patrickodowd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let there be cake! A completely fresh, homemade coconut cream cake that is! Not a single cake mix box in sight.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
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