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		<title>about that mosque&#8230;</title>
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I think I&#8217;ve finally wrapped my head around this &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; thing. 
First we stole the land. Then we murdered, displaced, subjugated or converted the native inhabitants. 

Then we kidnapped and enslaved an entire race of people. 

So now we can say it&#8217;s not okay for a small group of religious adherents to put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1460</link>
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		<title>A Few Reasons Why I&#8217;m Voting For Dr. Rand Paul This November</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just two easy reasons: 
Rand Paul wants to drastically scale back the depth and breadth of federal agencies that have been overstepping their Constitutional reach in this country for hundreds of years. 
One thing he advocates is the money-saving idea of shutting down the free/reduced school lunch program. This Socialist program was enacted in 1947 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1458</link>
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		<title>Want want</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t just ask yourself what you want. You&#8217;ve got to go beyond your longing and desires and ensure that the way you&#8217;re trying to get them isn&#8217;t also harming your well-being. You may want something that&#8217;s completely reasonable but perhaps you&#8217;re working too hard and taking for granted what you already have. The way in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1456</link>
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		<title>who knew?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knew the unemployment office was so cruisy?
click to embiggen

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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1454</link>
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		<title>new records</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Set some records tonight. One for longest shift: 14 hours. One for latest time worked: 3:45 AM.

Longest shift ....... 14 hours ..... previous record 12.5 hours
Latest time worked .......... 03:45 ..... previous record 01:30

I get overtime + shift premium. Back tomorrow at 10am. Sleep now&#8230;
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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1449</link>
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		<title>A Dirty Poem by WH Auden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is so dirty that, according to the New York Times Magazine, &#8220;Auden publicly denied authorship, which is why we can reprint this without permission and with impunity.&#8221;  So here it is!
The Platonic Blow
W. H. Auden
It was a spring day, a day for a lay, when the air
Smelled like a locker-room, a day to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1447</link>
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		<title>About astrology—in which I suck the fun out of every room, everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What follows is a magazine-article length essay. It&#8217;s good reading! And educational!
&#8220;The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality.
We are connected—not in the trivial ways that the pseudoscience of astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.&#8221;
Today&#8217;s lesson is about astrology. Not that a gemini has certain characteristics or a libra likes [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1437</link>
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		<title>about the illegals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s make this Arizona law national!
Let&#8217;s question every single person in the streets and in the stores, in the grocery and in the hospital, in the public park or the private home, everywhere they are—let&#8217;s ask everyone, you and me and everyone else—if they have the legal right to stand upon this soil. 
And if [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1435</link>
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		<title>The Mighty Saturn V</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a video I made of the Saturn V rocket at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration in Huntsville, Alabama.

The Saturn V rocket is the most complex and powerful machine ever built by human beings, with the sole purpose of carrying us to another world. The reason why it&#8217;s so big is because it&#8217;s essentially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1430</link>
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		<title>Neil deGrasse Tyson on why religion endangers science</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how smart people explain the dangers of abstract, magical religious thinking. It&#8217;s kind of roundabout, but if you read it and think about it with your brain that took billions of years to evolve out of nothing, you might get it. If not&#8230; just go back to your incense and funny hats and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1423</link>
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		<title>fighting socialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If, like me, you truly oppose socialism you should write your congress person today. You must encourage him or her to fight for the repeal of social security, medicare, the state childrens&#8217; health insurance program, food stamps, school lunches, public schools, state universities, national parks, public libraries, fire departments, 911 service, the post office, air [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1418</link>
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		<title>New look</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a bit of a new look here, as well as on the front page. I&#8217;ve started up a tumblelog to supplement this as well. I&#8217;ll probably reserve the big blog for long, official like posts and use tumblr as the middle space for things that are too long for twitter but short enough [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1409</link>
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		<title>for all my real friends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For all my real friends, I still need you. Now more than ever.
Snow Patrol
You Give Me Strength
I choked back tears today
because I can’t begin to say
how much you&#8217;ve shaped this boy
these last ten years or more
My friends we&#8217;ve seen it all
triumphs to drunken falls
and our bones are broken still
but our hearts are joined until
time slips [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1400</link>
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		<title>a poem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is one of my new favorite poems&#8230;
Boston
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#8212;Aaron Smith
I’ve been meaning to tell
you how the sky is pink
here sometimes like the roof
of a mouth that’s about to chomp
down on the crooked steel teeth
of the city,
I remember the desperate
things we did
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;and that I stumble
down sidewalks listening
to the buzz of street lamps
at dusk and the crush
of leaves [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1396</link>
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		<title>Letter from Senator Levin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. Pellerito:
Thank you for contacting me about the Department of Defense (DOD) Homosexual Conduct Policy, informally known as “don’t ask, don’t tell.” I appreciate you sharing your views with me. 
In my view, DOD’s current Homosexual Conduct Policy, which precludes openly gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals from serving in our armed forces, is a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1395</link>
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		<title>The Worker&#8217;s Argument.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the best way that I can think of to pose this argument&#8230; Healthy Americans add up to a healthy workforce, which will be more productive, and ensure a stong economy. A sick workforce bogged down by expensive health care is less productive and results in a poor economy. Sick people, or those who can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1392</link>
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		<title>why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since suggestive search is pretty standard now, I though I&#8217;d try what the various search engines&#8217; suggestions for &#8220;why&#8230;&#8221; 
The results are quite interesting. (click for bigger)

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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1391</link>
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		<title>Apollo 12</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The second lunar landing, of the LM Intrepid was 40 years ago today, manned by Pete Conrad and Alan Bean (with Gemini 11&#8217;s Richard Gordon orbiting in the CSM Yankee Clipper). The science and achievement was of course amazing, but the best part (I think) of the whole mission is that the backup crew managed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1387</link>
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		<title>dino (omfg)</title>
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Still my heart and hold my tongue
I feel my time, my time has come
Let me in, unlock the door
I never felt this way before
And the wheels just keep on turning
The drummer begins to drum
I don&#8217;t know which way I&#8217;m going
I don&#8217;t know which way I&#8217;ve come
Hold my head inside your hands
I need someone who understands
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1386</link>
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		<title>Happy Birthday Carl Sagan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Carl&#8217;s birthday, an image he didn&#8217;t live to see:

A recent photo from the Cassini spacecraft shows the mighty planet Saturn, and if you look very closely between its wing-like rings, a faint pinprick of light. That tiny dot is Earth bustling with life as we know it. The image is the second ever taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1383</link>
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		<title>apple iphone wallpaper &#8211; earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been scouring the internet for the longest time trying to find the source of the default iPhone wallpaper that depicts the globe of Earth from space, featuring North America:

Last night I finally gave up, and in doing so found it serendipitously tonight, here, courtesy of the TERRA satellite.
Much of the information contained in this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1381</link>
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		<title>Cassini flys past Saturn&#8217;s moon Enceladus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enceladus is an icy moon of Saturn. This morning the Cassini probe made its closest flyby yet, at an altitude of about 64 miles (103km). Here&#8217;s some of the very first &#8220;raw&#8221; images from the flyby, showcasing the cryovulcanism (per the wikipedia, &#8220;rather than molten rock, these volcanoes erupt volatiles such as water, ammonia or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1376</link>
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		<title>more light pollution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another map using a .kml overlay from cleardarksky.com using Google Earth (click for bigger/better):

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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1372</link>
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		<title>louisville nighttime lights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[here&#8217;s a map of the nighttime lights in Louisville, KY. I suppose if I wanted clear, dark skies I should&#8217;ve moved to somewhere in the middle of Arizona. Oh Well. About an hour&#8217;s drive to dark skies, which isn&#8217;t so bad. Now if I could find a nice boy with a nice telescope to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1366</link>
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		<title>a visual aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s my trip
Michigan Trip October 2009

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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1365</link>
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		<title>List of US Presidents who are recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to 97 individuals and 20 organizations. The Prize is awarded annually by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1361</link>
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		<title>one drop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1360</link>
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		<title>oh yeah</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t really make an announcement or anything here, but I got a job. My friend Angie&#8217;s boss was super interested in hiring me ever since he caught wind that I might be coming down here. So now I work for EFillRX, an innovative concept in pharmacy. We have two locations in two big doctor&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1357</link>
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		<title>Spacecraft to Watch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sent this as an email to my friend Brad, but I&#8217;m posting it here because it&#8217;s an interesting round-up of some current space missions. 
Planck/Herschel
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/planck/
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/herschel/
The Planck spacecraft will survey the entire sky and measure the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation: the heat left over from the big bang. It, along with the Herschel Observatory, orbit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1352</link>
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		<title>xkcd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I am so excited about the Kepler mission. This is the second most important thing our species has ever done, right behind inventing the concept of delivery pizza.&#8221;
awesome
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		<link>http://blog.paulpellerito.com/?p=1351</link>
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