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	<description>i&#039;m vehemently pedantic</description>
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		<title>the concept of amateurism and its role in American college sports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m a big sports fan. And that includes college sports. I think most American sports fans could list a number of things they love about college sports: the NCAA Tournament’s Cinderella stories, the marching bands at football games, the fierce rivalries, and countless others. But if we look at the big-time college sports, football and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/08/the-concept-of-amateurism-and-its-role-in-american-college-sports/</link>
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		<title>the space shuttle program and the ISS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, Space Shuttle Atlantis sits on its launch pad awaiting its takeoff. Its mission will be the last of the 135 in the program&#8217;s history. The United States has spent billions and billions of dollars on the Space Shuttle, and what do we have to show for it? Not much. Along with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/07/the-space-shuttle-program-and-the-iss/</link>
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		<title>jonathan bornstein</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now, let&#8217;s get one thing straight right of the bat. Jonathan Bornstein is an amazingly talented soccer player. In a nation of 310 million, he&#8217;s one of the best 30 or 40 players. And he&#8217;s probably a perfectly nice guy and decent human being. But he still sucks. He&#8217;s a left back, but he can&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/06/jonathan-bornstein/</link>
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		<title>saying that the morganza shouldn&#8217;t have been opened</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This year&#8217;s Mississippi River flood is the worst in decades, with record flood stages set in many places throughout the system. There are two main ways to deal with the threat of river flooding: 1) Build huge levees to contain the water. 2) Create outlets where water can be released from the river. There are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/05/saying-that-the-morganza-shouldnt-have-been-opened/</link>
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		<title>the birther movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have heard, President Barack Obama just decided to release his birth certificate. It looks like this: Hopefully that finally settles the years of idiocy coming from the &#8220;birther&#8221; movement, a group of buffoons who have steadfastly insisted that Obama is somehow not a citizen, with most of them suggesting he was born [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/04/the-birther-movement/</link>
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		<title>people who celebrate tax refunds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s April. That means spring, baseball, and the deadline for federal taxes. Usually, it&#8217;s April 15th, but this year, thanks to some quirks of the calendar, the deadline is the 18th. The local news channels always seem to have a reporter on location at a post office staying open for the convenience of the procrastinators. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/04/people-who-celebrate-tax-refunds/</link>
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		<title>when crap goes viral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of stuff on the internet. Apparently Google CEO (soon-to-be ex-CEO) Eric Schmidt once said 5 million terabytes. I have no idea how old that estimate is. And really, it doesn&#8217;t matter. Whatever the number is, it&#8217;s too big for any of us to really comprehend. The bottom line is that the internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/03/when-crap-goes-viral/</link>
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		<title>the nfl labor dispute</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you follow sports you&#8217;ve probably heard that the NFL owners and players are arguing with each other. Each side wants a bigger share of the billions of dollars in revenue the league generates. The owners want more money; the players want more information about the teams&#8217; finances; and to put it in clichéd terms, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/03/the-nfl-labor-dispute/</link>
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		<title>the anti-vaccine movement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of y&#8217;all probably got a bunch of shots as little kids. And let&#8217;s face it, nobody likes shots. They hurt. But I&#8217;m awful glad that I never got polio or measles or smallpox. And if the chicken pox vaccine had been widespread when I was a kid, it would&#8217;ve been awful nice to miss [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/02/the-anti-vaccine-movement/</link>
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		<title>that sean payton is moving his family to dallas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What&#8217;s the quickest way to piss off a million people? Claiming that Dallas is a better place to live than New Orleans. Sean Payton just found this out the hard way when he announced that he was moving his family to the Vaquero Club, an ultra-exclusive, ultra-expensive golf course community in Westlake, a suburb of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thingskevinhates.com/2011/02/that-sean-payton-is-moving-his-family-to-dallas/</link>
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