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		<title>13 Decisions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the next 13 weeks (August 2 &#8211; November 1) I have decided to: 1. Stop writing this blog. (Big shock, I know.) Basically, all non-commercial writing (except for two book reviews I have committed to do) is off limits. 2. Get off (and stay off) of Facebook. (This one may be a little difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1593</link>
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		<title>Priorities in Law Enforcement (British Version)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Burglar avoids prison again Christopher Lynch was told he would not have to serve the nine-month sentence if he kept out of trouble and complied with community service. But the 22-year-old was found to have been in breach of the order in October last year when a further seven hours was added to 250 hours [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1590</link>
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		<title>LeBron&#8217;s Hierarchy of Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What more does LeBron James want? How many yachts can he water-ski behind? What else is there &#8211; fame, fortune, championships &#8211; that he could possibly want? He has more money than God, access to any sort of beautiful woman he would like, worldwide status, a Nike contract, and&#8230; well, the mind boggles. LeBron is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1586</link>
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		<title>Joe Morgan Explains The World Cup To You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[JON MILLER:  Top of the third, still no score.  The Yankees send Robinson Cano to the plate.  Cano&#8217;s having an MVP-type season, wouldn&#8217;t you say, Joe? MORGAN:  Well, there&#8217;s MVP-type seasons, and then there&#8217;s Hall-of-Fame type seasons.  Cano is having a good year.  But as you know, Jon, I go to Cooperstown every year for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1584</link>
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		<title>The Rumsfeld Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Errol Morris, writing in the NYT, on unknown unknowns: [Former Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld’s famous “unknown unknowns” quote occurred in a Q&#38;A session at the end of a NATO press conference. A reporter asked him, “Regarding terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, you said something to the effect that the real situation is worse than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1581</link>
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		<title>Oh, Great</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was prepared to be real happy for Henning Mankell, although I didn&#8217;t actually know his name at the time. He wrote the Wallander books that got turned into a pretty good BBC mini-series by Kenneth Branagh. And it looks like he just hit the jackpot: “The question is, after everybody reads ‘Hornet’s Nest,’ what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1579</link>
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		<title>Complexity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[That Dilbert Guy: The Adams Complexity Threshold is the point at which something is so complicated it no longer works. The Gulf oil spill is probably a case of complexity reaching the threshold. It was literally impossible for anyone to know if the oil rig was safe or not. The engineering was too complex. I&#8217;m [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1577</link>
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		<title>Dirty Filthy Hippies of Buffalo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/06/magazine/06Squatters-t.html?partner=rssnyt&#38;emc=rss&#38;pagewanted=all We slipped around back and sneaked in through one of the few windows that wasn’t boarded up. Technically, we were breaking and entering, but this didn’t seem to worry Kit. As I strained to see through the murky darkness, he pointed down at the filthy wall-to-wall carpeting and said cheerfully, “We would probably pull [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1574</link>
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		<title>Advice Column</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the nice woman at the maternal health thingy tells you that your wife is going to have twins.  Okay. Are you breathing?  You should breathe.  In.  Out.  In.  Out.  Like that. Okay.  That&#8217;s a start. Maybe you have kids already, in which case, I don&#8217;t have very much to tell you.  Our twins were [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1570</link>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Get It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If Tom Friedman is willing to call out the President of Brazil and the President of Turkey for snuggling up to I&#8217;m-a-Dinner-Jacket, why isn&#8217;t he willing to call out President Obama by name?  The only difference seems to be that Obama is bright enough not to get caught getting his picture taken with the Iranian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.txreviews.com/blog/?p=1566</link>
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