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	<description>The life and times of the world's most self-deluded online superstar</description>
	<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<itunes:summary>The life and times of the world's most self-deluded online superstar</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Defending the perverted, just in time for Christmas</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/12/20/defending-the-perverted-just-in-time-for-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 20:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dwight Whorley of Richard, Virginia is a sick guy. He&#8217;s into child porn, and he needs all kinds of mental health counseling. What I&#8217;m not convinced he needs is 20 years in prison. 
Were he the child pornographer I would have no qualms with the sentence. Indeed, those who exploit children might deserve even harsher [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Dwight Whorley of Richard, Virginia is a sick guy. He&#8217;s into child porn, and he needs all kinds of mental health counseling. What I&#8217;m not convinced he needs is 20 years in prison. 
Were he the child pornographer I would have no qualms with the sentence. Indeed, those who exploit children might deserve even harsher punishment, and I&#8217;m squarely in the &#8220;let&#8217;s throw away the key&#8221; crowd when it comes time to determine a prison sentence for people like that. 
But Whorley was convicted of:
using a public computer for job-seekers at the Virginia Employment Commission to receive 20 Japanese cartoons, called anime, illustrating young girls being forced to have sex with men. Whorley also received digital photographs of actual children engaging in sexual conduct and sent and received e-mails graphically describing parents sexually molesting their children.
Setting aside that Whorley&#8217;s IQ must single digits since no one with half a brain would use a public computer for something like this, his is a problematic sentence.
While I&#8217;m unconvinced that just viewing content of any kind&#8211;even twisted material like this&#8211;should be a crime, it is especially troubling when it comes to the realm of fiction. Cartoons aren&#8217;t real, and there is no harm to anyone anywhere in their creation or dissemination. Why and how that can be a crime is beyond me.
The only argument that I can think of is that somehow the very act of viewing chld porn turns people into sexual predators. I am unaware of any studies that show this, but it&#8217;s all I can conceive of as a legitimate argument. On the other hand, reading Mein Kampf doesn&#8217;t turn one into a Nazi, so I think it&#8217;s a shaky premise. 
An attack on fiction is an attack on the human imagination. Some people&#8217;s minds wander into place we don&#8217;t want ours to go. That&#8217;s OK, because so long as everyone retains the right to think what they want to think, we&#8217;re all free. The problem with criminalizing fiction is that impinges on the inalienable right of human thought, and that&#8217;s something no government should ever try to take away.
[Full disclosure: I'm NOT into child porn, Japanese anime, or any of the other revolting things mentioned in this article. No one need email me looking to start a fan club.]
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		<title>War crimes</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/12/15/war-crimes-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It goes against the grain of the holiday season, but the President and the whole neocon cabal sprinkled throughout his administration should be tried as war criminals. The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody makes this abundantly clear.  
The only good news of this report is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[It goes against the grain of the holiday season, but the President and the whole neocon cabal sprinkled throughout his administration should be tried as war criminals. The bipartisan Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody makes this abundantly clear.  
The only good news of this report is that, as Andrew Sullivan in The Architect of Abu Ghraib, &#8220;there is no statute of limitations for war crimes.&#8221; Minimally, George Bush should have been impeached long ago, and this report details some of the reasons why.
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		<title>Baa Baa Black Sheep</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/12/05/baa-baa-black-sheep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Nintendo suffers the Japanese-English translation blues. Again. 
Hysterical.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Nintendo suffers the Japanese-English translation blues. Again. 
Hysterical.
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		<title>Finally, something worth catching</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/12/04/finally-something-worth-catching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Your happiness could be contagious:
On average, every happy person in your social network increases your own chance of cheer by 9 percent &#8212; and the effects of catching someone else&#8217;s happiness lasts up to one year. The study, which looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over 20 years, was published online Thursday in the British Medical [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Your happiness could be contagious:
On average, every happy person in your social network increases your own chance of cheer by 9 percent &mdash; and the effects of catching someone else&rsquo;s happiness lasts up to one year. The study, which looked at nearly 5,000 individuals over 20 years, was published online Thursday in the British Medical Journal.
Interestingly, sadness isn&#8217;t transmitted nearly so readily.
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		<title>YouTube Video Contest</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/11/30/youtube-video-contest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You should enter. Really.

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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You should enter. Really.

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		<title>The plan</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/11/24/the-plan/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[You know this one is right around the corner:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2008/11/22/
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[You know this one is right around the corner:
http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2008/11/22/
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		<title>Gallery: 2007 to March 2008</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/11/13/gallery-2007-to-march-2008/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Thirty-six images from 8 to 11 months ago. Yes, I&#8217;m that far behind.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Thirty-six images from 8 to 11 months ago. Yes, I&#8217;m that far behind.
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		<title>Palin-speak</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/11/13/palin-speak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sitting here in these chairs that I&#8217;m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it&#8217;s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Sitting here in these chairs that I&rsquo;m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it&rsquo;s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don&rsquo;t get away with that. We have to balance budgets and we&rsquo;re dealing with multibillion dollar budgets and tens of thousands of employees in our organizations.
No wonder most of us are confused and annoyed with her. I think it was Camille Paglia who said that Palin &#8220;uses language with the jumps, breaks and rippling momentum of a be-bop saxophonist&#8221; and dear Lord it&#8217;s not hard to see why. 
Nonetheless, Daniel Larison of Eunomia has done yeoman work in figuring out what&#8217;s going on. 
Of course that doesn&#8217;t explain her bizarre, persistent and easily-verified-as-untrue statements&#8211;Andrew Sullivan&#8217;s count is up to 24&#8211;but what the hey. One battle at a time.
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		<title>I&#8217;m not crazy about it but&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/11/12/im-not-crazy-about-it-but/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;if you&#8217;re gonna bail out the auto industry next, how about doing it this way (as suggested by Fractals of Change): 
&#8230;The US government should order a complete replacement for its vehicle fleet to be delivered over the next four years. The new vehicles must be either plugin electric hybrid, pure electric, or possibly natural [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8230;if you&#8217;re gonna bail out the auto industry next, how about doing it this way (as suggested by Fractals of Change): 
&#8230;The US government should order a complete replacement for its vehicle fleet to be delivered over the next four years. The new vehicles must be either plugin electric hybrid, pure electric, or possibly natural gas. Obviously retooling both at the manufacturers and suppliers is required to deliver this order so the government should be willing to prepay a significant part of it as it does for new weapons systems. That gets money into the system fast and creates/saves jobs almost immediately. It lets the suppliers retool as well as the final assemblers.
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		<title>An election night helper</title>
		<link>http://tydavison.com/wordpress/2008/11/02/an-election-night-helper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ty Davison</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[From Nate at 538:
Also, there are some states that truly do appear to be &#8220;must-wins&#8221; for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Montana. He also picked up Ohio in 621 out of the 624 simulations, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From Nate at 538:
Also, there are some states that truly do appear to be &#8220;must-wins&#8221; for McCain. In each and every one of the 624 victory scenarios that the simulation found for him this afternoon, McCain won Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Indiana and Montana. He also picked up Ohio in 621 out of the 624 simulations, and North Carolina in 622 out of 624. If McCain drops any of those states, it&#8217;s pretty much over.
And here&#8217;s a second part in case it&#8217;s a lot closer than I think it will be:
We can probably assume&#8230;that IF the national polls tighten significantly (and to reiterate, the likelihood is that they will NOT), McCain will edge out a victory in North Carolina, Florida, Indiana, North Dakota, Montana, Georgia, and Missouri; put those states in the McCain column for the time being. Likewise, New Mexico, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa all appear safe for Obama, even in the case of significant tightening. Put those in the Obama column.
That leaves our five states in play.
The victory conditions for Obama involving these five states proceed something as follows:
1. Win Pennsylvania and ANY ONE of Colorado, Virginia, Ohio, or Nevada*
2. Win Ohio and EITHER Colorado OR Virginia.
3. Win Colorado AND Virginia AND Nevada.
(* Nevada produces a 269-269 tie, which would probably be resolved for Obama in the House of Representatives.)
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