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		<title>the prodigal blog returns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[so i&#8217;ve been MIA for the last four-ish months as i relocated to tennessee to take a job as a staff writer/blogger/photographer at metro pulse, knoxville&#8217;s alternative weekly.
i write there almost daily on our staff blog, the daily post, and this is my latest (and best, i think) excuse for once again letting this site [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=280</link>
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		<title>children&#8217;s hospital: a hilarious series apparently everyone missed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[i recently came across children&#8217;s hospital, a 2008 WB series written by, directed by and starring rob corddry of the daily show, arrested development and harold and kumar II fame. the episodes are short at five or so minutes each, but each one contains many great moments that parody shows like grey&#8217;s anatomy, ER, chicago hope, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=275</link>
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		<title>david frum: my new favorite conservative?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[this is definitely worth a watch.
i saw it a couple of weeks ago and since then have gone back to it a couple of times. frum just seems to make a lot of sense, and his crticism of rush limbaugh, mark levin and other hysterical reactionaries is spot on.
david brooks may be getting a run [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=273</link>
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		<title>a couple of documentaries to humanize the health care debate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[there&#8217;s this short documentary from bill moyers, and this one from  frontline, which as always, comes through.
part of the beauty of politics is that it offers the potential to reduce the very personal into cold, reasoned calculations, which usually revolve around money. perhaps this doesn&#8217;t strike everyone as something beautiful, but it allows decisions to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=263</link>
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		<title>another conversation on rational markets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[russ roberts over at econtalk has a great conversation with time columnist justin fox about his new book, the myth of the rational market.
listen to the whole hour, it&#8217;s worth it because it complicates any easy answers on what to do about the great crash of 2007-08.
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		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=247</link>
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		<title>chris anderson&#8217;s &#8220;free: the future of a radical price&#8221; now free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[chris anderson, editor of Wired magazine, has put his money where his mouth is and released his new book for free on itunes.
anderson&#8217;s work is about how a small percentage of users paying for content will subsidize the rest of us, who will get the content we want for free. an example is the current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=240</link>
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		<title>recent photos taken at harpers ferry, west virginia</title>
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		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=217</link>
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		<title>rational markets and the human animal, reconsidered</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the country picks itself up from its latest financial spill, it&#8217;s vital to consider the assumptions that led people to act the way they did, and to update those assumptions as we move  forward.
Here Yale professor Robert Shiller examines the idea that markets &#8220;know,&#8221; like some omnipotent being, and therefore can never be wrong. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=195</link>
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		<title>let&#8217;s kill medicare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this piece from NPR&#8217;s On The Media, Nate Silver (of 538) discusses the framing of the health care reform debate by both sides. It&#8217;s worth a listen but not entirely compelling radio (if Bob Garfield or Brooke Gladstone had been there, maybe the story&#8217;d be different).
There was, however, an idea towards the end that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=192</link>
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		<title>a night at the museum</title>
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From a piece on the Online Newshour:
It&#8217;s just after closing on a Friday night at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington. In the darkened auditorium, a jazz quintet is building a rhythmic floor on a soft, steady percussion line and lilting piano chords. Composer-conductor Jacob Varmus steps in on trumpet, twirling a feverish [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mediastrainer.com/?p=184</link>
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