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		<title>A captive audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 13:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I considered the focus of this discourse on education, I found myself discarding more ideas than I retained. Should I write about how Lewis F. Powell, Jr., a Supreme Court Justice and former tobacco lobbyist, wrote a confidential memorandum in 1971 &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/05/11/a-captive-audience/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=6291&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The blessed doctrine of asymmetrical self-defense</title>
		<link>http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/05/06/the-blessed-doctrine-of-asymmetrical-self-defense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 01:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Israel has once again acted in divine &#8220;self-defense&#8221; after it launched airstrikes against Syria yesterday leaving repercussions that residents of Demascus reported as feeling like &#8220;an earthquake&#8221; and &#8220;unprecedented&#8221;. Now, I&#8217;m no Wolf Blitzer but I&#8217;m pretty sure if I was &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/05/06/the-blessed-doctrine-of-asymmetrical-self-defense/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=6359&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By any other name</title>
		<link>http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/05/03/by-any-other-name/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 23:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…” by Paulo Freire As April showers give way to May flowers in the land of genetically modified milk and honey bees, I find myself looking out the window of my &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/05/03/by-any-other-name/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=6275&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deus ex machina</title>
		<link>http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/27/deus-ex-machina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 22:43:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.” by Hannah Arendt As Chechnyans this week looked out their windows and shushed their children to listen for &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/27/deus-ex-machina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=6102&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Trompette du monde</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 20:06:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fellow blogger asked me this week how do I keep from being overcome by anger and frustration over the injustices taking place in our world? One of the ways I deal with my sense of impotence is to listen &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/26/trompette-du-monde/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=5982&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Its harder not to</title>
		<link>http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/20/its-harder-not-to/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:10:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work.” by Frederick Douglass Just when it looked like we were going to have to talk all week about such bland things like Medicare and Social Security (yawn) and how &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/20/its-harder-not-to/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=6029&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I watched myself disappear</title>
		<link>http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/20/i-watched-myself-disappear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 04:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched myself disappear before my very eyes when I stayed silent and on the sidelines I faded gradually when I let my Muslim neighbors disappear into the void lost in the maze of detention When I permitted immigrants in &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/20/i-watched-myself-disappear/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=5952&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The only light we&#8217;ll see</title>
		<link>http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/18/the-only-light-well-see/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been one of those weeks&#8230;death in any language and under any flag is irrevocable. Our spirits should mourn and our hearts bend in compassion, no matter what tribe those who have been killed and maimed pledge their allegiance to. &#8230; <a href="http://deconstructingmyths.com/2013/04/18/the-only-light-well-see/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=deconstructingmyths.com&#038;blog=39060093&#038;post=5983&#038;subd=deconstructingmyths&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 03:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Nguyen</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Apr 2013 02:17:58 +0000</pubDate>
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