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							<title><![CDATA[Transjennered America]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2015 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For as long as I can remember, I&rsquo;ve been ignoring Bruce Jenner. As a child of the &rsquo;70s, I ignored him in the cereal aisle, where his Olympic-champion mug couldn&rsquo;t entice me to pick his terminally bland Wheaties over more healthful Sugar Smacks. I ignored him in the &rsquo;80s, during his star-turn in Can&rsquo;t Stop the Music, a disco-tinged Village People biopic that saw him nominated for a Golden Raspberry Award for worst actor. In the &rsquo;90s, I don&rsquo;t recall Jenner at all, as I was rather busy ignoring him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[James Traficant, 1941-2014]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What&rsquo;s the matter with Kansas? It&rsquo;s a decade since Thomas Frank launched a thousand headlines with his book of that title, itself a reference to a famous 1896 essay by Kansas journalist William Allen White. Frank&rsquo;s thesis was simple: Kansans, and by extension the rest of the red states, vote against their economic interests. Or as he puts it in the first page of his book: &ldquo;People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.&rdquo;]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Through a Google Glass, Darkly]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The first time I saw someone wearing Google Glass in the wild, I was standing at a friend&rsquo;s party at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin&mdash;the place where the tech world gathers each year to gleefully discover what next big &ldquo;innovation&rdquo; will eventually displace you. The party hotel was trendily down-market, a retro motor-court, but one where the house marinates its own cocktail olives while serving pepper-glazed bacon at Saturday jazz brunch.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hard Sell: Going Door-to-Door for Obamacare]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Standing here on the streets of Hollywood with two comely Obamacare cheerleaders by my side, I&rsquo;m feeling fired up and ready to go. I&rsquo;m feeling like the change I&rsquo;ve been waiting for. I&rsquo;m feeling like whatever Obama clich&#195;&#169; you can think of. And all I want to say, like the late Todd Beamer before me, is, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s roll.&rdquo; Or more like, &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s enroll.&rdquo; Because much as Beamer, God rest his soul, took on the terrorists who tried to take down America, we are now in a similar cataclysmic fight: the fight to guarantee that every American has the right to buy overpriced health insurance on a glitchy website, under threat of punitive tax...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A Hitchless World]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[No secrets are being divulged when I report that Christopher Hitchens liked a drink every now and then. Preferably now. He wasn&#194;&#146;t sloppy about it. In fact, he always seemed in perfect control. (I once saw him steer a beach bike through the streets of Key West without spilling his Scotch.) He just liked to keep the machine well-oiled so he could get on to more important things, like liberating oppressed peoples of the world, knocking out his 1,000 words a day, or starting fights with God, assuming there is one, which he didn&#194;&#146;t. In some ways, his affection for drink brought us together, setting in motion my most vivid memories of him.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Semper Fly: Fishing With Wounded Warriors]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Nearly every fly fisherman I know is a celebrator of the absurd. You  have to be to spend years of your life standing in cold water, flogging  it endlessly with a plastic stick, hoping to outsmart a fish with a  chickpea-sized brain by duping it with feather and fur. If you&rsquo;re  successful and conscientious, you will punch a hole through its mouth  with sharp steel, play it to hand, admire its beauty or power, then  gently return it to the water to swim away freely, as if this senseless  blood pageant had never occurred. It&rsquo;s a pastime that rewards those who  don&rsquo;t examine it too closely.When people ask for justification of such folly, I usually skip the  purple stuff about...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Living Like A Liberal]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[This is a story about living the good life. Or not the good life,  exactly, in the Italian, dolce vita understanding of the term.  It&rsquo;s more about living the better life, a comparative way of  living. It&rsquo;s about living better than I was before, living better than I  once thought possible, living better, if you&rsquo;ll forgive my candor, than  do you. Here, I use &ldquo;you&rdquo; to loosely mean &ldquo;conservative&rdquo; or even &ldquo;disengaged  liberal.&rdquo; For living better than you is all about honesty. Honesty with  you. Honesty with myself. So I&rsquo;ll just level with the two of us: I used  to be a conservative. I mean, I wasn&rsquo;t some nutcake conservative. I ...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Adventures of Low Impact Man]]></title>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Matt Labash</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Increase Font SizePrinter-FriendlyEmail a FriendRespond to this articleRemember that old Mac Davis song, "Oh Lord, it&#39;s hard to be humble"? I was ten at the time of its release in 1980. I didn&#39;t understand it. But I hadn&#39;t yet planted my flag on the summit of major accomplishment. Now I have, and it&#39;s like Mac is singing to me. Hell, after my week of virtuous and simple living, it&#39;s like Mac is singing about me. My carbon footprint was erased as though a breaker had scoured it from a sandy beach thanks to No Impact Week, as in the eight-day experiment I just partook of with Huffingtonposters and eco-seekers and the No Impact guru himself, Colin Beavan, aka No Impact Man....]]></description>
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