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		<title>Three Myths</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On my Facebook news feed a little while ago I saw a link to an article called &#8220;Three Myths about the Detention Bill.&#8221; I thought, Oh, good, it&#8217;ll turn out I was wrong and worrying for nothing. No such luck. Glenn Greenwald lays out these three myths put forth by supporters of the bill, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RIP, Good Sir</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:58:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humanism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hitch has died. I didn&#8217;t agree with him on everything, but this is right on: The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This Post Will Probably Someday Disappear</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 04:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not usually a gloom-and-doom sort of fellow. Well, okay, I totally am, but it usually concerns my weight. On larger movements and trends in the world at large, I usually manage to remain positive. I maintain perspective by reminding myself that the middle of the 20th century was a major suckfest: Great Depression, Hitler, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Under the Covers, Part Seventeen: 31-Marxist-Zombie-Novel Edition</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=3787</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 05:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Biblioholism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a thing I&#8217;ve been meaning to do for weeks&#8211;finishing up the series I started here and continued here. Last time I looked at books about Iraq and Afghanistan, all read (or at least acquired) for my latest fiction project. Here are a couple of books left over from previous projects that never reached critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things I Happen to Know about Billy Joel</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 07:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By popular demand,* nine things I happen to know about Billy Joel, and one thing I completely made up. Spot the fake. It&#8217;ll be fun. Before his solo career, Joel was briefly in a heavy metal band called Attila. Their only album is almost impossible to listen to. Cold Spring Harbor, Billy Joel&#8217;s first solo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background Music, Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 05:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, The Nylon Curtain has become my favorite Billy Joel album. It wasn&#8217;t the first I ever bought, and in the full fever of my adolescent obsession with all things Joel I may have listened more often to An Innocent Man or The Bridge, but nowadays it&#8217;s The Nylon Curtain that brings me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Background Music</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=3705</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 06:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the Asiagoans blog, I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by L. Anne. Her questions were awesome and I had fun answering them &#8230; but &#8230; well &#8230; I started at 1:30 in the morning. By the time I got to the end, my answers were getting rather &#8230; spontaneous. Here&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Night, Irene</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=3700</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 04:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So Irene is rolling our way, but I won&#8217;t be here when she arrives. (If she arrives. The track has changed a lot since Monday, and it looks like the storm is veering east.) I&#8217;m on my way to San Francisco for a business trip. The last time I was there, back in December, I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Special Snowflake</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=3681</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 22:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Geekery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Since I spent way, way, way too much time on this, I feel I have to share it with you: It&#8217;s a Koch snowflake. It&#8217;s for that writing workshop I&#8217;m doing in October. How am I using it, you ask? Heh. Wouldn&#8217;t you like to know? &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>Save the Date: The Passionate, Accurate Novel</title>
		<link>http://mattdean.info/letters-from-the-country/?p=3649</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 21:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m doing this workshop thing in a couple of months. It seems a long way away, but I&#8217;m totally psyched. I&#8217;m already doing the PowerPoint. Time Saturday, October 15, 2011 · 3:30pm &#8211; 5:30pm Location Charleston County Public Library &#8211; Mt. Pleasant Branch More Info In the best fiction of any genre, what occurs is [...]]]></description>
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