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	<title>Chewing The Cud &#187; Philosophical</title>
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		<title>The Argument For Guns</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2008/12/15/the-argument-for-guns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 21:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not a gun-toting fellow by any means. Typically I have waffled between whether to ban some guns or leave them all available to private citizens. I know it is a slippery slope when talking bans and I don&#8217;t trust future legislators to not take advantage of a current legislator&#8217;s good intentions in limiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education vs Schooling</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2008/10/31/education-vs-schooling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to question the value of public schools. The premise, a free education to enable children to lift themselves up and be productive members of society, is certainly hard to argue against. And yet, we see public schools failing, some quite miserably, to produce competent young adults. Solutions proposed, like &#8220;No Child Left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Important Ideas</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You cannot help the poor, by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak, by weakening the strong. You cannot bring about prosperity, by discouraging thrift. You cannot lift the wage earner up, by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the brotherhood of man, by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Philanthropy</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2008/06/13/private-philanthropy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So many government-sponsored social welfare programs are touted as helping the poorer and more disadvantaged in society. While noble in intent, history shows that these programs are at best inefficient. With so much bureaucracy inherent in government doings, these programs are at a disadvantage from the start. So why do they persist? I think mostly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programming Epigrams</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2006/02/21/programming-epigrams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2006 17:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, to catch some up, a definition: epigram: n. A short, witty poem expressing a single thought or observation. A concise, clever, often paradoxical statement. From a list of programming epigrams, I liked these two a lot: 35. Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Artist in Me</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2006/02/06/the-artist-in-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 07:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps a case can be made for the existence of artistic talent in me&#8230;read on for why writing code is awesome!]]></description>
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		<title>I Knew I Was On To Something</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2006/01/13/i-knew-i-was-on-to-something/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2006 06:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my football buddies always used to say, &#8220;Don&#8217;t let school get in the way of college.&#8221; Most laughed and knew he meant slacking off was the cool thing to do. I took it as meaning there is more to college than simply doing homework and papers. While this does not mean to neglect [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Is No Spoon</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2006/01/03/there-is-no-spoon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2006 05:58:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fascinating article I&#8217;ve been reading for the last hour or so over at edge.org. The goal of the article was to ask many influential intelligent people what their most dangerous idea is today. The results are&#8230;interesting. One in particular that I want to mention here is by Donald Hoffman, a cognitive scientist at UC, Irvine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oh so true</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2005/09/28/oh-so-true/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2005 16:20:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good quote]]></description>
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		<title>Smart</title>
		<link>http://jamesaimonetti.com/2005/09/06/smart/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2005 04:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Philosophical]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. &#8212; Socrates]]></description>
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