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		<title>Me of Little Faith (Lewis Black)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[My experience with Lewis Black is primarily from his Back in Black segments on &#8220;The Daily Show&#8221; and a couple of his stand up albums. These performances are typified by yelling righteous indignation at the right and the hypocrisy of the system, and this (audio)book certainly featured some of that with the likes of Pat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Yiddish Policemen&#8217;s Union (Michael Chabon)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 03:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know what it was about the AC Transit, but I loved reading on that bus. Twenty minutes, twice a day, it just worked. CTA should have been even better with the hour commute twice each day. Whether it was the excessive noise or the multiple transfers I could never regain that rhythm. Instead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking down the JK Rowling empire</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2009/08/17/taking-down-the-jk-rowling-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Warning possible spoilers ahead! Just so we&#8217;re on the same page, Voldemort is going around killing people and eventually tries to kill Harry Potter. He&#8217;s thwarted in this pursuit, because his mother gives her life to save him. So am I to believe that Harry is the first child that Voldemort tries to murder? Wouldn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cuckoo&#8217;s Egg (Cliff Stoll)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2007/08/19/the-cuckoos-egg-cliff-stoll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:10:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It took about a hundred pages, but this turned into a pretty good book. That&#8217;s about when the action picked up, but also when I figured out that this was a true story. It&#8217;s quite strange to read a book from the mid-1980&#8242;s in the eWorld of 2007. The author spends a significant amount of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wisdom of Crowds (James Surowiecki)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2007/08/17/the-wisdom-of-crowds-james-surowiecki/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is not an easy premise to buy into, judging by who the president is and what&#8217;s played on the radio. What it boils down to however is sample size. Even if it&#8217;s from the world&#8217;s leading expert, the judgment from a single person is at a disadvantage compared to the collected opinion of many. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Pictures of Famous People (Jon Stewart)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2006/12/22/naked-pictures-of-famous-people-jon-stewart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 13:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does anyone remember the pre-Daily Show Jon Stewart? I don&#8217;t remember much about him, except that MTv kept giving him shows. They weren&#8217;t funny. I didn&#8217;t think anything he said was funny. When Stewart replaced Craig Kilborn on The Daily Show, I actually thought it was a step down for Comedy Central (if that&#8217;s possible). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2006/12/21/the-kite-runner-khaled-hosseini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kite Runner is the five-tool player of books; it does a lot of things well. But, as with many five-tool players in baseball, it has no truly outstanding points. The plot is good, but a tad formulaic. The theme of redemption has been done better elsewhere. I hoped this would be sort of an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2006/12/08/the-tipping-point-malcolm-gladwell/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Dec 2006 02:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tipping Point evolved from an explanation of word-of-mouth into a study on epidemic theory on social trends. Like Gladwell&#8217;s other book, Blink, the chapters are layed out as a series of personal anecdotes and sociological or psychological experiments which support the chapter&#8217;s hypothesis. Highlights include the fall and rise of Hush Puppies and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eyeing the Flash (Peter Fenton)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2006/08/23/eyeing-the-flash-peter-fenton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2006 15:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I really thought this would be a great book. The subtitle is &#8220;The Education of a Carnival Con-Artist.&#8221; That sounded like a sure fire winner to me, but it just didn&#8217;t work. The first half of the book is about how the author doesn&#8217;t respect his father and thus ends up with the carnival. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The World Is Flat (Thomas Friedman)</title>
		<link>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2006/08/11/the-world-is-flat-thomas-friedman/</link>
		<comments>http://www.realmofthewombat.com/2006/08/11/the-world-is-flat-thomas-friedman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 04:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So prior to The World Is Flat, I read Collapse. The conclusion to that book was that that if China and India consume resources at the rate of Americans, the world is going to descend into an apocalyptic state of war, famine, and turmoil. After finishing The World Is Flat, I&#8217;m convinced this is inevitable. [...]]]></description>
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