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"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [...] The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent." -Oliver Wendelle Holmes, Jr.,</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/iCyZHq22XgY/fire-fire-this-theater-is-on-fire.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/TSk0eacacHI/AAAAAAAAAQc/mLAlKEWzAzY/s72-c/palin-target-map.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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No, the title of this post doesn't refer to Harry Reid's painfully back-handed "compliment" of Barack Obama.  It's the cleverly provocative title of the newest album from the Carolina Chocolate Drops, an all black string band from North Carolina.  The album blends a delicious stew of old-time string music, blues stomps, and Celtic arrangements with an acappella ballad, a Tom Waits cover, and a </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/Cwa6mLG_UQE/genuine-negro-jig.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/S3uWwofBghI/AAAAAAAAAHo/UoC1-sroWZA/s72-c/genine.jig.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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Over the past several months, I've engaged in many political debates on facebook.  I've really enjoyed this venue, because facebook is an interesting melting pot where people of vastly differing political opinions coalesce together with only the most tenuous connections to one another.  While you might never make the time (or even have the opportunity) to grab a beer with that old acquaintance </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/EqgP-quFHkg/facebook-unlikely-political-think-tank.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/S3O_T8eUdaI/AAAAAAAAAHg/867ksxc8jrw/s72-c/donkelephant.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/EqgP-quFHkg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2010/02/facebook-unlikely-political-think-tank.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-7681562513108508252</guid><pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-09T16:55:28.262-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mccain-feingold</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">supreme court</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">campaign finance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">corporate money</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">citizens united v. federal election commission</category><title>1/21/10 - The Day Democracy Died?</title><atom:summary>"The money powers prey upon the       nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a       monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy.       It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw       light upon its crimes...  Corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption       in high </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/_vd1mEo_590/12110-day-democracy-died.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/S1kwVZe5X-I/AAAAAAAAAHY/75DNzRt936E/s72-c/money.court.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/_vd1mEo_590" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2010/01/12110-day-democracy-died.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-62680199233690697</guid><pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-09T16:55:46.540-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Massachusetts</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Democratic failure</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Third Party</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Scott Brown</category><title>Do Dems Deserve Progressive Support?</title><atom:summary>So, now the Dems hand over a Senate seat to the GOP candidate Scott Brown (a Tea Party conservative) in one of the most reliably progressive states in the nation, Massachusetts.  That alone shows the party's incompetence if nothing else.  The Dems have had vast majorities in both houses of Congress and the White House for one year.  What have they accomplished?  Let's see...

Health care likely </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/QQxkQ-DRQRI/do-dems-deserve-progressive-support.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/QQxkQ-DRQRI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2010/01/do-dems-deserve-progressive-support.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-8081325828597516212</guid><pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 05:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-09T16:56:57.587-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">steven soderbergh</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">The Informant</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">matt damon</category><title>Film Review - The Informant!</title><atom:summary>

The protagonist of Steven Soderbergh's latest film, The Informant!, is Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon) whose bizarre, manic stream of conscious ramblings provide much of the film's narration.  The character , played with perfect pitch by Damon, seems incapable of slowing down his mind (and his mouth), often to his own peril.  I can only guess that the hyper-prolific Soderbergh's mind is equally </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/gBqC1KMPEo4/film-review-informant.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SrZKkbqilzI/AAAAAAAAAG0/kW3wSOJ2xao/s72-c/informant_1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/gBqC1KMPEo4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/09/film-review-informant.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-2337307207017813593</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 02:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-09T16:57:16.556-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">birthers</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">george w. bush</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">healthcare</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obama administration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blue dog</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obstruction</category><title>I Miss George W. Bush's Balls</title><atom:summary>
For eight long, disastrous years, we had a President whose dearth of intellectual curiosity and cerebral dexterity was rivaled only by his abundance of unearned confidence and self righteousness.  In short, George W. Bush was all balls and no brains.  It often seemed that the more wrong-headed and unwelcome his policies, the more steadfastly he defended and even expanded those policies (for </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/7CX9c2IDtEg/i-miss-george-w-bushs-balls.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SqCjQs7XMjI/AAAAAAAAAGU/PyGDgq78HiE/s72-c/bush.balls.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/7CX9c2IDtEg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/09/i-miss-george-w-bushs-balls.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-6172358314613604753</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:05:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-11-15T21:04:19.661-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">duncan jones</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">sam rockwell</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">kevin spacey</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">moon</category><title>Moon - Film Review</title><atom:summary>

In his feature film directorial debut, Duncan Jones has created the rare cinematic gem of a compelling, cerebral science fictions film (a feat rarely found in the film market of the last fifteen years.)  Moon, starring Sam Rockwell as multiple characters (kind of), is a sci-fi indie flick for adults.  As the director himself acknowledges, that is an almost extinct genre today.  Jones, a former </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/YZDCZZGSKvg/moon-film-review.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/Sm57a4LaXlI/AAAAAAAAAGM/5JxRxCQqBeU/s72-c/moon.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/YZDCZZGSKvg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/07/moon-film-review.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-5791606274245821559</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-02T21:44:55.375-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">starbucks</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">msnbc</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">joe scarborough</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Morning Joe</category><title>MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Partners With Starbucks, Dropping Pretense of Actual Journalism</title><atom:summary>[Edit:  In retrospect, I should have titled this post Morning Ho'.]In a refreshing move of candor, MSNBC's weekday talk show, Morning Joe (hosted by conservative pundit and former Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough), has officially dropped the pretense that it is a news program.  Instead, the show is explicitly marketing itself as exactly what it is - a vehicle to generate advertising dollars</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/k0BSMn-bEJ0/msnbcs-morning-joe-partners-with.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SiPk13Wu-_I/AAAAAAAAAF8/g3gmi6tE7Qs/s72-c/01joe01-190.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/rZSTUv1lko4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/cheneys-pet-donkeys.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-7020227489575558643</guid><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 02:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-12T12:25:13.490-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prohibition</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">American Craft Beer Week</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">marijuana legalization</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">microbreweries</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">decriminalization</category><title>Hops, Malt, Barley, and Hemp - The Politics of Pleasure</title><atom:summary>This is certainly an opportune time to celebrate American Craft Beer Week, as we sit in the middle of an economic collapse.  Many of us are feeling the pains of a sluggish economy in the form of lost jobs, reduced income, and continued uncertainty.  While it may not be the best way to cope with anxiety, one can hardly blame us for imbibing a well-crafted beer to help us through tough times.  The </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/fUV0vxWNeAo/hops-malt-barley-and-hemp-politics-of.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SgkPAJsfd-I/AAAAAAAAAEs/kOoIlNN18tg/s72-c/craftbeer.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/GIRse8wqID0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/wire-creator-david-simon-for-secretary.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-9198366121975820765</guid><pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 05:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-17T10:40:42.294-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">harper's magazine</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">authoritarianism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">torture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">democracy and deference</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mark slouka</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">accountability</category><title>Loyalty, Democracy, Authority</title><atom:summary>A red carpet is rolled out after Air Force One arrives in Port of Spain, Trinidad on April 17, 2009.  (Image and caption taken from Whitehouse.gov)I don't know what triggered my memory, but something led me to revisit an essay I first read last summer.  It was published in Harper's Magazine almost exactly one year ago in June of 2008 during the maddeningly slow-moving final months of the Bush </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/M9pTk22Kuyo/democracy-dd.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SgVBVv4EbiI/AAAAAAAAAEU/KYYr_j0tvRA/s72-c/americas06.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/M9pTk22Kuyo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/democracy-dd.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-1726346963495980035</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 03:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-08T10:12:28.828-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spineless</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">compromise</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">medicare</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">healthcare</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">pubic plan</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Charles Schumer</category><title>Chuck Schumer's Magic Healthcare Tonic</title><atom:summary>As indicated in reports from the New York Times, Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) seeks to water down proposals for a public health insurance plan by offering a new "compromise" with the private insurance lobby.  The development of a public plan modeled on Medicare has been the dominant proposal in response to the failed, inflated, and corrupted private system that has left almost fifty million </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/-2LE_sHUp8E/chuck-schumers-magic-healthcare-tonic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SgRJ8fDVUPI/AAAAAAAAAEM/qLs0AZn9-xk/s72-c/schumer.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/-2LE_sHUp8E" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/chuck-schumers-magic-healthcare-tonic.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-7923390369013728574</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-07T00:50:55.314-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">X-Men</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Wolverine</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">money-waster</category><title>Film Review - Wolverine, Please Just Claw Out My Eyes Next Time</title><atom:summary>X-Men Origins: Wolverine is a movie that starts with a mildly awkward title and only gets worse from there.  Sure, a big, shiny summer popcorn movie is easy bait for snarky, dismissive reviews  by pretentious, undeservedly self-important bloggers.  It just so happens that this clunky blockbuster on watered-down steroids deserves every bit of exhausted criticism thrown it's way.  Besides, big, </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/hPxJngIamoo/film-review-wolverine-please-just-claw.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SgJnICfKfoI/AAAAAAAAAD0/sbgziPNDBpU/s72-c/x.blob.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/hPxJngIamoo" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/film-review-wolverine-please-just-claw.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-9138253030965544103</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 23:04:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-05T20:31:52.738-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">office of professional responsibility</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jay bybee</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">department of justice</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">torture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">john yoo</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">obama administration</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">eric holder</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">steven bradbury</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prosecutions</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><title>DOJ Report Said to Excuse Torture Policy as "Lapse in Judgement"</title><atom:summary>According to the New York Times, an internal investigation by the  Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility found that Bush Administration lawyers in the DOJ should not be prosecuted for developing legal theories that enabled torture practices.  The Times' article characterized the DOJ report as finding that the lawyers "committed serious lapses of judgment but should not be </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/S1ev_EO1XTM/justice-department-excuses-torture.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SgDmzLxLNvI/AAAAAAAAADc/j39PtaGQ8OQ/s72-c/torture.team.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/S1ev_EO1XTM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/justice-department-excuses-torture.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-8203926010015019374</guid><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 04:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-05T23:15:53.212-05:00</atom:updated><title>Film Review - Sin Nombre</title><atom:summary>Here we are on the cusp of another summer movie season full of mutant super-heroes, robotic villains, bombastic computer-generated explosions, and cinema-shaking sound designs.  At a time when the vast, vast majority of films made and released in this country are designed for adolescents of all ages, it is refreshing to see a thoughtful film released before the late autumn Oscar season.  Sin </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/6VEYwTUTz4M/film-review-sin-nombre.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/Sf_19jSW-7I/AAAAAAAAADE/iv8C6dLXYNU/s72-c/sin_nombre01.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/6VEYwTUTz4M" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/film-review-sin-nombre.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-5674612507075482701</guid><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 02:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-03T23:40:08.327-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">banners</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">adsense</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ann coulter</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">paris hilton</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">google</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">politics</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">byron dorgan's combover</category><title>Ann Coulter Sucks (an AdSense Experiment)</title><atom:summary>So, it's a horribly rainy Sunday in Nashville, and, admittedly, my energy level is depleted.  However, even in a state of such laziness, I hope I would never fall to the depths of writing a post devoted solely to trashing Ann Coulter.  After all, this is a woman who makes Michael Moore, Bill O' Reilly, and Laura Ingraham all look like bookish, shrinking violet intellectuals by comparison.  </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/6Qe4i506k58/ann-coulter-sucks-adsense-experiment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/Sf5ux9BjUQI/AAAAAAAAAC8/EHaGIoFE0o0/s72-c/coulter.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/6Qe4i506k58" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/ann-coulter-sucks-adsense-experiment.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-7040217849347645945</guid><pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-02T18:18:09.695-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">retirement</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the nine</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">toobin</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">patriotism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bush v. gore</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">souter</category><title>Justice Souter - Patriotism by Procrastination</title><atom:summary>My first thought upon hearing of Supreme Court justice David Souter's retirement was gratitude.  I don't mean that as a backhanded compliment, as if to say I'm glad to see him go.   I felt genuine gratitude regarding his public service, especially over the last eight years.  Most of what I know about this man is from Jeffrey Toobin's excellent book, The Nine, which paints a penetrating portrait </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/geiNILAyOgk/justice-souter-patriotism-by.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SfzUrAFgEuI/AAAAAAAAACM/832hlMpx63A/s72-c/souter.screw.you+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/geiNILAyOgk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/05/justice-souter-patriotism-by.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-8118320684482500102</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-03T09:33:50.961-05:00</atom:updated><title>Arlen Specter - The Wrinkled Saint of Change</title><atom:summary>There has been much hoopla regarding Arlen Specter's self-serving jump to the Democratic Party.   Once Al Franken is seated, the Dems will have a filibuster-proof sixty seats.  Hooray!  Soon enough we can look forward to universal health care, green energy sources, federally sanctioned gay marriage, and a renaissance for strong unions.  Hell, maybe we can even wrangle free college tuition and </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/aCdAep5LPVU/arlen-specter-wrinkled-saint-of-change.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SfzUyfO_lxI/AAAAAAAAACU/J2VprJTo6W8/s72-c/specter.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/aCdAep5LPVU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/04/arlen-specter-wrinkled-saint-of-change.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-3239233137659157678</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:34:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-29T16:48:22.051-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thomas friedman</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">torture</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">torture apologist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ny times</category><title>Thomas Friedman's Tortured Rationalizations</title><atom:summary>In today's paper, NY Times columnist Thomas Friedman says, "President Obama got it about as right as one could when he decided to ban the use of torture, to release the Bush torture memos for public scrutiny and to not prosecute the lawyers and interrogators who implemented the policy."  So, now the man who championed the Bush administration's rush to war in Iraq wants to give them a free pass </atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/CA-Jnu1GyE4/thomas-friedmans-tortured.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_rVI9U7ACrPg/SfhveSPZgBI/AAAAAAAAABg/8O8svbWZIXk/s72-c/friedman-ts-190+copy.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~4/CA-Jnu1GyE4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><feedburner:origLink>http://www.dirtsweatsoul.com/2009/04/thomas-friedmans-tortured.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4264221477095033614.post-2588223581771997009</guid><pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-29T10:54:22.141-05:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Hunger</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">film review</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Steve McQueen</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Michael Fassbender</category><title>Hunger - Film Review</title><atom:summary>Hunger is the feature film debut of director Steve McQueen.  This is not, however, the film of a novice.  One immediately feels the confident tone of this film, and it doesn’t take long to appreciate that this is a movie made by a visual artist (McQueen is an accomplished artist and the 1999 recipient of Britain’s esteemed Turner Prize.)  The film revolves around the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike with</atom:summary><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DirtSweatSoul/~3/qsZ79jC_v2o/hunger-film-review.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Dustin Ogdin)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total><description>&lt;div class="feedflare"&gt;
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