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	<description>The future belongs to those who prove themselves the true friends of mankind.</description>
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		<title>On kidneys, drinking and war crimes guilt</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2009/05/on-kidneys-drinking-and-guilt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 13:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Economy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Because worse than having your kidneys fail is the knowledge, deep in your gut, that you are, in the end, alone, and nothing more than a war criminal and a murderer. ]]></description>
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		<title>A way forward for financial bloggers</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2009/05/a-way-forward-for-financial-bloggers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2009/05/a-way-forward-for-financial-bloggers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 13:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In order to have a alternative party to the prevailing wisdom of American capitalism in our daily discourse that would be the equivalent of the Democrat/Republican divide, the U.S. would need at least a couple of million people who believed that Wall Street was not the key to their future retirement, but instead stood as a parasitic institution designed to funnel away worker and entrepreneurial wealth to selected and undeserving members of society.]]></description>
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		<title>Introduction</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2009/03/introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Mar 2009 14:44:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It stays near you,
This act of writing,
Never strays too far.
Even if other things get in the way
And you sometimes have to act like
You&#8217;ve never met it before
A day in your life.
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		<title>The mother of all media tests</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/07/the-mother-of-all-media-tests/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/07/the-mother-of-all-media-tests/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics and Economy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.thesentimentalist.com/?p=209</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With movement towards fundamental change in the U.S. policy towards Iraq perhaps starting to appear &#8212; hell, even President Bush is bowing to the inexorable reality that American troops have to leave these days &#8212; the news that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki supports Barack Obama&#8217;s plan to withdraw US troops from Iraq within 16 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>This looks like a Lee Morgan video &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/03/this-looks-like-a-lee-morgan-video/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/03/this-looks-like-a-lee-morgan-video/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:57:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[But it&#8217;s really just a test to see what embedded video will look like on the site.
Please do not panic.

Plus, Benny Golson, too. Sweet!
]]></description>
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		<title>Man, people in this country can be confused</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/02/man-people-in-this-country-can-be-confused/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/02/man-people-in-this-country-can-be-confused/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Who knew that Hollywood writers had complete control over the race for the most powerful office on the planet?]]></description>
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		<title>Harold Washington, Barack Obama and the hostile takover of the Democratic Party</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/02/obamas-hostile-takeover/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2008/02/obamas-hostile-takeover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008, just like in in Chicago in 1983, Obama's campaign represents nothing less than the hostile takeover of an established, once seemingly insurmountable Democratic political machine.]]></description>
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		<title>What war with Iran will look like</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2007/02/what-war-with-iran-will-look-like/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2007/02/what-war-with-iran-will-look-like/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:46:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Essays]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When, one evening not too far off, the dark suited president looks somber-eyed into the camera,
and interrupts America&#8217;s consumption of National Idol and 24 Hours in the Life of an Anti-Terrorist Avenger with talk of necessity and honor;
the TV screens will flicker in the darkening night and computer screens will glow in the face of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush finds soul mate in Russia&#8217;s bloody Beria</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/12/bush-finds-soul-mate-in-russias-bloody-beria/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/12/bush-finds-soul-mate-in-russias-bloody-beria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, minister of the interior for the Soviet Union during Stalin's bloody purges in the 1930s, gave a press conference. What would it sound like? it might sound a lot like George Bush today, December 6th, 2005, here in the United States of America.
]]></description>
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		<title>How does the president of Gabon come up with $9 million, anyway?</title>
		<link>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/11/how-does-the-president-of-gabon-come-up-with-9-million-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.thesentimentalist.com/2005/11/how-does-the-president-of-gabon-come-up-with-9-million-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2005 13:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark W. Anderson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[On Writing]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember back in 1998, when Republicans, particularly Tennesee senator-<a href="http://www.fametracker.com/hey_its_that_guy/thompson_fred.shtml">turned-crime fighter </a>Fred Thompson, CIA officer-turned-politician-<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53253-2004Aug10.html">turned-CIA-chief </a>Porter J. Goss and one-time Strom Thurmond <a href="http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/09/lott.comment/">fan</a> Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) were all up in arms over reports that President Clinton sold military technology to the Chinese in exchange for <a href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/jan-june98/china_5-19.html">campaign contributions</a>?]]></description>
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