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		<title>Questions about the power of precedent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government broke a lot of new ground along its path to punish Big Tobacco for the last 40 years.  The powers the government claimed for itself to regulate, and ultimately prosecute, Big Tobacco didn&#8217;t fade away once Philip Morris and Co. were finally brought to heel.  The Government used the easily demonized Big Tobacco [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/08/questions-about-the-power-of-precedent/</link>
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		<title>Bad sports, good sports: Another atrocious Super Bowl halftime show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went into Sunday evening with the thought that, despite my apprehension about the Madonna halftime show at the Super Bowl, I would not be writing about said show as my column for this week. After all, I wrote about the same subject a mere two years back, when they dug up The Who to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/06/bad-sports-good-sports-another-atrocious-super-bowl-halftime-show/</link>
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		<title>Top ten signs you were at a bad Super Bowl party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10. The television screen was so small, you had to take turns watching 9. Every five minutes, some old guy was yelling, “Where’s Knute Rockne?” 8. You missed most of the first half so the host could tell you all about Scientology 7. Somebody had already licked all the orange dust off the Cheetos 6. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/06/top-ten-signs-you-were-at-a-bad-super-bowl-party-2/</link>
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		<title>A Bill of Claims</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An alarming thing has happened and the most alarming bit is that no one is alarmed. Things seem to be proceeding apace in Egypt and the intellectuals are salivating at the prospect of a new Egyptian constitution, to be drafted by around June. That doesn&#8217;t leave much time so they are soliciting advice from foreign [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/05/a-bill-of-claims/</link>
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		<title>Consensus is a helluva drug&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re working in a group, it&#8217;s hard to know what you truly think. We&#8217;re such social animals that we instinctively mimic others&#8217; opinions, often without realizing we&#8217;re doing it. And when we do disagree consciously, we pay a psychic price. The Emory University neuroscientist Gregory Berns found that people who dissent from group wisdom show [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/04/consensus-is-a-helluva-drug/</link>
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		<title>Foppish muffler: A smattering of Saturday links</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the cage beneath the cellar, a random spattering of hyperlinks. &#160; Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel has a great profile of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady here. Do Republicans orgasm more than Democrats? Freeman Dyson&#8216;s brain. Ice hockey in Turkey; skiing in Iran. Liz Hazelton takes readers to &#8220;the island that New [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/04/foppish-muffler-a-smattering-of-saturday-links/</link>
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		<title>Unreal estate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If ever I run this town, even before I take revenge on my enemies I will have a statue commissioned. A bronzed Anne Cox-Chambers already man&#8217;s the traffic island outside my front door, permanently enjoying a newspaper as only an owner of one could do. Around Underground there are life-size bronzes from the &#8217;30s and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/03/unreal-estate/</link>
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		<title>Newt&#8217;s Moon colony</title>
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		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/03/newts-moon-colony/</link>
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		<title>A Young Person&#8217;s Guide to Russian Politics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Following the recent street protests in Russia, international attention has been focused on the country’s political scene. A young person tuning in to the news coverage might be confused by all the long names ending with –ov and –sky, and the series of heads that resemble slabs of meat, lumpy potatoes or some other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/03/a-young-persons-guide-to-russian-politics/</link>
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		<title>Suffer not the Innocent to find relief</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you remember back when that jury full of carefully selected idiots let Casey Anthony stroll her baby-murdering caboose out of court, free as a bird last year?  Come on, you remember her, right?  The 20 something tart that had either murdered her own two year old daughter, or helped someone else hide the body after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://whenfallsthecoliseum.com/2012/02/02/suffer-not-the-innocent-to-find-relief/</link>
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