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	<title>The Strain of Gaiety</title>
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	<description>The writings and doings of writer/comedian Danforth France.</description>
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		<title>Coco&#8217;s Last Dance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“All I ask is one thing, and I am asking this particularly of young people who watch: Please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism. For the record, it’s my least favorite quality. It doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get, but if you work really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2010/01/23/cocos-last-dance/</link>
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		<title>Horoscopes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I strayed across an archive of my old, old blog. This is a word-for-word repost of a bit of &#8220;comedy&#8221; I wrote in the summer of 2002.
Aries &#8211; Love is in the air tonight, Aries. However, so is dander. Be prepared and bring tissues for both.
Taurus &#8211; You will receive a handsome reward. Even though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/12/19/horoscopes/</link>
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		<title>Tips for Debating Politics on Facebook &#8211; Be Stupid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got sucked into a political debate in the comments section of a Facebook friend&#8217;s update, where he posted a link to Sarah Palin&#8217;s obviously ghostwritten op-ed in the Washington Post on global warming politicizing science. At first I took the bait and came out swinging with my two cents, but as my blood [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/12/10/tips-for-debating-politics-on-facebook-be-stupid/</link>
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		<title>Infamy moot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to address the anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by remembering being at the actual Pearl Harbor memorial in Hawaii many years ago. I can remember the American tourists giving Japanese tourists the stink-eye. The picture-snapping and posing at photo-ops by the Japanese struck the Americans as &#8220;insensitive.&#8221; There were a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/12/07/infamy-moot/</link>
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		<title>New video &#8211; Star Trek: The Game Night</title>
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		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/11/13/new-video-star-trek-the-game-night/</link>
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		<title>Vestigiolism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This entry is the WWW-equivalent to mailing myself my own idea in a sealed envelope to stake a claim to coinage of a term that needed&#8230; er, terming. I just googled the word &#8220;vestigiolism&#8221; and got NO hits. So when Wired or some such trade magazine needs to give credit where credit is due in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/09/26/vestigiolism/</link>
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		<title>Front row seats at the diversion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m certainly guilty of paying attention to the Sarah Palins and Rush Limbaughs and the Glenn Becks of the world. Scrutinizing them to ridicule them. They are the pied pipers that cynically manipulate their stupid followers into the hijacking and re-framing the debate on health care reform in such a way that it shanghais the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/08/17/front-row-seats-at-the-diversion/</link>
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		<title>Banana-addled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Months back I read Dan Koeppel&#8217;s book Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World. It&#8217;s a real interesting look at the banana from all points &#8212; economic, biological, historical, etc. Reading the book can give you banana-vision. I was at Comic-Con a few weeks ago, saw a Dole banana boat in port [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/08/08/banana-addled/</link>
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		<title>Ouroboros testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To add to the increasingly tangled mess of my online-ity, I am trying out Tumblr (see: http://danforth.tumblr.com/) Between the RSS feeds and auto-updating of Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, blog, Tumblr and so forth, my computer presence is quickly becoming a snake eating its own tail. Here&#8217;s hoping we get no closed loops of me re-posting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.planetdanforth.com/wordpress/2009/08/05/ouroboros-testing/</link>
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		<title>Monday morning so far</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got up early. Had a coffee. Got a bunch of these to snack on.

Then did the Glendale News-Press crossword with little to no help from the cat.

Turns out a German coal region is The Ruhr.
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