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	<description>... a nervy bunch of liberals and conservatives who think that disagreement, dialog &#38; discernment of fact can make for a good conversation, a good country &#38; a good time.</description>
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		<title>My Purple Post: Calling out all children and elected officials</title>
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Why not visit our partners in crime over at Purple State of Mind&#8230;
Like many of us, I spend my days pivoting quickly from my personal to my work life, sometimes enough that I get a little confused.  In my case there is quite a bit of overlap:  I teach my children not to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do Glenn Beck and Abbie Hoffman have in common?</title>
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Could be more than you think.
One of the perks of this job is that people are always sending me links to intelligent authors conveying big ideas.  Here&#8217;s one from last week I didn&#8217;t quite get up&#8230; The New York Times&#8217; David Brooks comparing the Tea Party movement to the counterculture movement of the 1960&#8217;s:
&#8230;both [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/10/what-do-glenn-beck-and-abbie-hoffman-have-in-common/,</link>
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		<title>Riddle:  How many wikis does it take to make the internet civil?</title>
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Answer:  One.  As long as you visit us.  We the Wiki coming by summertime&#8230;
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		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/09/riddle-how-many-wikis-does-it-take-to-make-the-internet-civil/,</link>
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		<title>Senator Lindsay Graham: &#8220;We should probably start with plastic forks and knives at this first one&#8221;</title>
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Two Senators have finally caught on to what The Village Square knew all along:  They&#8217;d better start eating together if they want to get along.  Retiring Senator Evan Bayh (D-Indiana) and Senator Lindsay Graham (R-South Carolina) wrote a joint letter requesting that the Senate convene a once a month bipartisan lunch.  On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/07/lindsay-graham-we-should-probably-start-with-plastic-forks-and-knives-at-this-first-one/,</link>
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		<title>My Purple Post: A Special Comment regarding amphibians (and human beings)</title>
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Please click on over to our friends at PURPLE STATE OF MIND to read this post in a new neighborhood.

As promised, a companion piece to Why Glenn Beck is Stalking Me:
When Keith Olbermann hit the airwaves back in 2003, you could hear a collective sigh of relief among liberal-leaning America, long frustrated by their lack [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/05/my-purple-post-a-special-comment-regarding-amphibians-and-human-beings/,</link>
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		<title>TONIGHT: Politics, Partisans &amp; A Pint&#8230; Florida TaxWatch&#8217;s Dominic Calabro on the legislative session</title>
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5 PM MANOR@midtown, 10 minute program starts at 5:30.  Be there!
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		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/04/tonight-politics-partisans-a-pint-florida-taxwatchs-dominic-calabro-on-the-legislative-session/,</link>
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		<title>FloridaThinks: 30 day trial offer</title>
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If you haven&#8217;t checked out FloridaThinks yet, you should (especially while they&#8217;ll give you a free 30 day trail offer).
*Not affiliated with the Village Square whatsoever although we really really like the idea of Florida thinking.  Because when Florida doesn&#8217;t think, well&#8230; er&#8230; you know&#8230;.  In fact, we&#8217;d like to see them franchise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/03/floridathinks-30-day-trial-offer/,</link>
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		<title>According to Luke: A different kind of Exodus</title>
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(Village Square intern Luke Inhen is a political science graduate student at Florida State University. You can read Luke&#8217;s other contributions here.)
Exodus has always been one of my favorite books of the Bible. The story of a boy born into slavery only to be saved by the royal family, then leading his people against that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/03/02/according-to-luke-a-different-kind-of-exodus/,</link>
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		<title>Florida Trend: Civility in Public Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Florida Trend Publisher Andy Corty writes about &#8220;the hug&#8221; with President Obama that has symbolized the nosedive Governor Crist has taken in the polls:
Think back to late January. President Barack Obama was scheduled to appear in Tampa to announce federal funding for a high-speed rail line connecting Tampa and Orlando and eventually Miami. That was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/02/28/florida-trend-civility-in-public-life/,</link>
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		<title>My Purple Post: &#8220;600 TV channels and a gazillion blogs&#8221; (and still we&#8217;re uninformed)</title>
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(Visit our Purple friends at www.purplestateofmind.com)
Fresh from one of my unique moments of agreement with Glenn Beck yesterday as he riffed righteously on the unmitigated hypocrisy of Senate Democrats, I tuned into Rachel Maddow who was riffing righteously on the unmitigated hypocrisy of Senate Republicans.
They were both completely right.
Or completely half-right.  Which makes them [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://tothevillagesquare.org/blog/2010/02/26/my-purple-post-600-tv-channels-and-a-gazillion-blogs-and-still-were-uninformed/,</link>
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