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		<title>Tutu: I Would Never Worship a Homophobic God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Desmond Tutu tells it like it is: In Africa, a step backward on human rights:
&#8220;But they are sinners,&#8221; I can hear the preachers and politicians say. &#8220;They are choosing a life of sin for which they must be punished.&#8221; My scientist and medical friends have shared with me a reality that so many gay people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/03/14/tutu-i-would-never-worship-a-homophobic-god/</link>
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		<title>Tomlinson on Alice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Tomlinson at Spasms of Accommodation had exactly the same experience I had: Alice in Wonderland IMAX 3D.
The reviews online gave it a C, so I had low expectations.
But it was good! Never did I squirm because of some logical or continuity problem like I did in Avatar. I suppose since it was SUPPOSED to be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/03/11/tomlinson-on-alice/</link>
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		<title>Little Billy&#8217;s Letters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the subject of misleading correspondence, I thought this was funny (though jstone thought it was in poor taste): Little Billy&#8217;s letters to famous and infamous people:

In the 1990s Bill Geerhart was an unemployed, not-so aspiring screenwriter in his 30s. To pass the time, he channeled his inner child, 10-year-old Billy, and started writing letters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/03/11/little-billys-letters/</link>
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		<title>Tim Marquez&#8217;s Letter to Carpinterians about Measure J (the Paredon Initiative)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tim Marquez wants to drill for oil from inside Carpinteria, the small town where I live. Technically, it&#8217;s Venoco, Marquez&#8217;s oil company, that wants to drill. But I&#8217;m pretty sure that for the purposes of the current discussion, when we talk about Venoco, we&#8217;re talking about Marquez.
He was going through the usual environmental review process [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/03/09/tim-marquezs-letter-to-carpinterians-about-measure-j-the-paredon-initiative/</link>
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		<title>Google Isn&#8217;t Not Being Evil by Pulling Lessig&#8217;s Webside Chat from YouTube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently you used to be able to watch Lawrence Lessig give a very cool talk on copyright and free culture on YouTube, but now you can&#8217;t. Shame, that.
Fortunately, you can still watch it on blip.tv:

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		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/03/03/google-isnt-not-being-evil-by-pulling-lessigs-website-chat-from-youtube/</link>
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		<title>Photos of Obama Feigning Interest &#8212; with Snarky Captions!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This actually made me laugh out loud several times: A History of Obama Feigning Interest in Mundane Things. Your mileage may vary.
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		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/03/02/photos-of-obama-feigning-interest-with-snarky-captions/</link>
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		<title>In Which I Confess to the Onset of a Sudden Man Crush on Steven Novella, MD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Tomlinson pointed out to me that Phil Plait (of the Bad Astronomy blog) linked to me today in Two posts about denialism, climate change and otherwise. That was pretty cool, given how much I like the Bad Astronomy blog. The post reads a bit like Plait is crediting me with having come up with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/27/in-which-i-confess-to-the-onset-of-a-sudden-man-crush-on-steven-novella-md/</link>
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		<title>Romm on Boykoff on the Media on the &#8220;Controversy&#8221; Over Climage Change</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I liked Joe Romm&#8217;s item on Max Boykoff&#8217;s presentation at the AAAS meeting in San Diego last week (Exaggerating Denialism: Media Representations of Outlier Views on Climate Change). In particular, I liked this graph of Boykoff&#8217;s, because I think it sums up a key problem with how the media has been covering this issue:

Despite the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/25/romm-on-boykoff-on-the-media-on-the-controversy-over-climage-change/</link>
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		<title>McKibben on Why Climate Change Denial Is Like the O.J. Trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Craig, Part 2: Bill McKibbon&#8217;s excellent article on the basic mechanism behind climate-change denialism: Why It’s the O.J. Moment of the 21st Century.
The campaign against climate science has been enormously clever, and enormously effective. It&#8217;s worth trying to understand how they&#8217;ve done it. The best analogy, I think, is to the O.J. Simpson trial&#8230;
The Dream [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/25/mckibben-on-why-climate-change-denial-is-like-the-o-j-trial/</link>
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		<title>Seeing Is Believing, Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the series of posts containing videos that are (not) real, here&#8217;s Leo LaPorte interviewing Craig Allen and Eric Kallman of Wieden + Kennedy about the making of the Old Spice &#8220;The Man Your Man Could Smell Like&#8221; commercial, which aired during the Super Bowl.

The bottom line, for those who don&#8217;t want to watch the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/23/seeing-is-believing-part-3/</link>
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		<title>Toles on Climate Science &#8220;Certainty&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For Craig (via Joe):

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		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/22/toles-on-climate-science-certainty/</link>
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		<title>Drum on Bernstein and Isikoff on the Bushies on Torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Drum, in  Lying About Torture, Part 2:
A few days ago, Jonathan Bernstein pointed out that former Bush/Rumsfeld speechwriter Marc Thiessen was continuing to claim that the torture of Khalid Sheik Mohammed in 2003 helped foil a terrorist plot to crash an airplane into a Los Angeles skyscraper. This was obviously a lie. Why? Because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/21/drum-on-bernstein-and-isikoff-on-the-bushies-on-torture/</link>
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		<title>The Horrors of Aerial Chemical Spraying</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Barbara Tomlinson (she of the cool satellite launch video, and the Spasms of Accommodations blog) forwarded this video to me:

It&#8217;s by YouTube user sanluisskywatch, who appears to be on a self-appointed mission to document and spread the word about the fact that the skies over San Luis Obispo are being intentionally sprayed with aluminum and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/20/the-horrors-of-aerial-chemical-spraying/</link>
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		<title>Seeing Is Believing, Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This seems apropos, given the recent obsession hereabouts with climate-change research. On February 11, 2010, NASA launched the Solar Dynamics Observatory atop an Atlas V rocket, and Barbara Tomlinson made the following video. This is the point in the launch just before the rocket goes supersonic, when it sends out a series of concentric pressure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/19/seeing-is-believing-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Stargate Studios&#8217; Chromakey Reel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a small reminder: Seeing is believing. Except when it isn&#8217;t.

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		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/18/stargate-studios-chromakey-reel/</link>
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		<title>Romm&#8217;s Illustrated Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From Joe Romm: An illustrated guide to the latest climate science.

It has lots of neat graphs for those who want pretty pictures, and links you can follow to the actual science for those who want to chew on the details. (You&#8217;ll need to click twice, since the first link in most cases is to an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/17/romms-illustrated-guide/</link>
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		<title>Possibly My Favorite Onion Video Ever</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NASA Scientists Plan To Approach Girl By 2018 
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		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/11/possibly-my-favorite-onion-video-ever/</link>
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		<title>Telegenic Blondes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jenny McCarthy believes that MMR vaccines&#8217; preservatives caused her son to be autistic, and that her changing his diet cured him. She has written best-selling books in which she advances these claims, and appears in front of millions of TV viewers at every opportunity to make the case. And apparently a lot of parents believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/05/telegenic-blondes/</link>
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		<title>Traynor: The death penalty is unworkable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, the American Law Institute provided the legal framework that underlies this country&#8217;s implementation of the death penalty. Now, the Institute has withdrawn its support from that framework. Michael Traynor, former president of the Institute, had a nice op-ed piece in the LA Times today explaining why the Institute took that action: The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/04/traynor-the-death-penalty-is-unworkable/</link>
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		<title>Lessig: Obama Has Betrayed His Movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence Lessig is a very smart cookie. And he is not happy: How to get our democracy back.

Maybe this was his plan all along. It was not what he said. And by ignoring what he promised, and by doing what he attacked (&#8220;too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lies.com/wp/2010/02/04/lessig-obama-has-betrayed-his-movement/</link>
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