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	<title>Matthew T Grant &#187; Irony</title>
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		<title>A Contradiction I Found in Ayn Rand&#8217;s &#8220;Atlas Shrugged&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 04:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[John Galt says to Dagny Taggart, &#8220;Nobody stays here by faking reality in any manner whatever.&#8221; So what does it mean that Rand uses a fictional character to express her philosophy (Galt&#8217;s epic and exhausting speech) as well as a fictional narrative depicting a fictional reality in order to illustrate it? Either we are not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv, or A Fistful of Super Web Strangeness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received an email from a fellow named Igor. I assumed it was your garden variety, botnet-generated spam. It did, however, include a link to a Youtube video and, feeling secure that the Russians or Estonians or Ukrainians or whoever hadn&#8217;t jacked Youtube (yet!), I clicked on it. This is what I saw: If you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Underground Economies Understand the Power of Marketing</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/04/16/underground-economies-understand-the-power-of-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 03:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What got me thinking about this was a story about black tar heroin in the LA Times back in February. The sub-headline read, &#8220;Sugar cane farmers from a tiny Mexican county use savvy marketing and low prices to push black-tar heroin in the United States.&#8221; The specifically savvy marketing in this case involved putting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publish and Perish</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/03/04/publish-and-perish/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why my academic career didn&#8217;t pan out, but among them is undoubtedly the fact that I didn&#8217;t publish very much. For example, I never turned my dissertation on the Baader-Meinhof Gang into a book (though part of my research did end up in an obscure, Canadian journal called, Border/Lines). When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Similes That Make Me Smile</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/01/20/similes-that-make-me-smile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2010/01/20/similes-that-make-me-smile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading two NYT articles today reminded me of how much fun with similes writers over there can have. First, in &#8220;The Great Unalignment,&#8221; writer Matt Bai says that, in the aftermath of Scott Brown&#8217;s Senate victory here in Masschusetts, Democratic talk of &#8220;a great liberal realignment seems as retro as Friendster.&#8221; While I don&#8217;t exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Serious about #onewordwednesday</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/09/getting-serious-about-onewordwednesday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 13:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I launched the incredibly successful Twitternet phenomenon, #onewordwednesday, in May 2009, at least by my reckoning. The fact that on every subsequent Wednesday (and sometimes earlier) the hashtag has seen action, and not just due to my own fervid zealotry, I consider one of the few real achievements of my adult life. Nevertheless, I fear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jazzhole</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/12/02/jazzhole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fact that I was grooving on Andrew Hill, coupled with the fact that I decided to check out  his Andrew!!! (literally, I got the cd at the library) because I saw that John Gilmore, longtime collaborator of Sun Ra, played on it, makes me a &#8220;jazzhole.&#8221; Likewise, the fact that I would say, &#8220;Everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sons of Surgeons</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/11/16/sons-of-surgeons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was once in an alt-rockin&#8217; trio called &#8220;Spanking Machine.&#8221;  The fellow who played bass, Kurt, was the son of a brain surgeon. My father, it just so happened, was an orthopedic surgeon. One day, Kurt said that we should form a band with this other dude, Dave, whose dad was a cardiac surgeon. &#8220;We [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MarketingProfs Digital Mixer, Here I Come!</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/10/20/marketingprofs-digital-mixer-here-i-come/</link>
		<comments>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/10/20/marketingprofs-digital-mixer-here-i-come/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m off to MarketingProfs&#8217; Digital Mixer in Chicago this morning and I&#8217;m practically giddy. Look, I&#8217;m a people person and if there is one thing that conferences like this have, it&#8217;s people. The bonus is that in this case, I&#8217;ve actually met some of them before and am very much looking forward to reconnecting with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Principles</title>
		<link>http://www.matthewtgrant.com/2009/10/14/first-principles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chaos is our mother. ∞ The entire history of the universe unwinds in the transition of diverse high energy state into a single low energy state. When the universal stuff has achieved a uniform temperature, it will be completely and chaotically disordered. When the energy gradient has disappeared entirely, there will be no identifiable things. [...]]]></description>
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