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		<title>Lines in the sand</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:20:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should people be allowed to have stupid beliefs? I am an atheist. Nearly everyone who knows me knows it. While I do not doubt what I know, I do waffle on how exactly to practice this outlook on life. There are those, like P.Z. Myers, J.T. Eberhard, and Richard Dawkins, who think a direct and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=434&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silence</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/05/27/silence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 16:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was having a conversation with a few co-workers about employee rights, civil rights, and the blaze attitude of citizens where other&#8217;s rights are concerned. This led me to thinking about the recent snafu with so-called &#8220;Tea Party&#8221; nominee Rand Paul, son of the infamous Presidential nominee Ron Paul, where Rand showed his true colors [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=422&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Weak Ties</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 23:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so I&#8217;m roaming around on the internet doing research for another blog post I&#8217;m working on, when I run into the Weak Tie Hypothesis. It argues that, in any social group consisting of persons A, B, C, etc, if A and B are strongly connected and A and C are strongly connected, then B [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=342&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/tim-wise-imagine-if-the-tea-party-was-black/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tim Wise: Imagine if the Tea Party was Black. I&#8217;ll let Tim say his peace. He is a much better man that I.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=408&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Similarity is not Equality</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/04/23/similarity-is-not-equality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/?p=269</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Roller Derby time boys and girls. Yet while I waited patiently for that 7pm whistle last sunday which started the rekindled sport my mind wanders to thoughts of gender equality. I know, boring, but hear me out. I&#8217;ve been noticing an upswing in articles related to the oppression of men and this all-women sport [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=269&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A little bit of housecleaning</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/a-little-bit-of-housecleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve decided to move the more personal stuff over to a different blog, as I really don&#8217;t think they belong here anymore. So if you can&#8217;t find a blog post that was here, you can now go to my other blog: Uncle Jim. And before you go &#8220;really, Uncle Jim?&#8221; Kiss my ass, it&#8217;s my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=386&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Study shows genetic disorder leads to lack of racial stereotypes and social fear.</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/study-shows-genetic-disorder-leads-to-lack-of-racial-stereotypes-and-social-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Williams syndrome children show no racial stereotypes or social fear &#124; Not Exactly Rocket Science &#124; Discover Magazine. So we find ourselves another study claiming that, essentially, racial stereotyping is natural and genetic. Only with genetic disorders can we truly get past these natural urges. What a crock. This study is based on the &#8220;Preschool [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=345&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>White Backlash</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/04/05/white-backlash/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 01:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Take a glance over to the right of this blog to the Blogroll widget. You&#8217;ll see a link to The Color Line. It&#8217;s a blog ran by Contexts, which is the online home of the magazine of the same name. It is a quarterly magazine dedicated to the exploration of sociological topics made relevant to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=320&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An open letter to Kris Broughton</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2010/03/19/an-open-letter-to-kris-broughton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I stumbled across your writings by accident, and first allow me to say how great it is to finally find a voice speaking about the questions I&#8217;ve had as a white sociologist studying race, privilege, and cultural creation. Your questioning of the current media machine&#8217;s ethnic influences is one which needs to continue to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=286&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>545 People</title>
		<link>http://mikestorm.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/545-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James F</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got an email this morning from my father. It was a simple email containing no words, but a simple attachment I was beckoned to read (you can read it at the bottom of this post). As is normal with nearly every email my parents forward to me, I immediately hit snopes.com to investigate the email&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikestorm.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1941977&amp;post=260&amp;subd=mikestorm&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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