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		<title>Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yeah, I know I don&#8217;t blog here much. But this debt crisis thing is bothering me, and reinforces something I&#8217;ve always believed* about politics: Politics is the art of treating your own opinions like facts and opposing facts like opinions. *I really only thought of this five minutes ago. But I&#8217;ve always believed it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=224&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The best looks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s very obvious when someone opens the front door of my apartment building. You have to wave your little ID card in front of the electronic eye about three seconds longer than you should. You start to put your card away, but you realize the door still hasn’t unlocked. You move the card back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=222&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One for the history books</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 04:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.” -  Henry Anatole Grunwald A majestic quote that reminds us of the power of the written [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=216&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel! Vacation! Hell yes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 03:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know I said I would post more regularly to this, so I apologize to myself (and the five people who visit this site every day, God knows why) for not doing so. I’ve actually been pretty busy finishing my book. If you have a Kindle, you could (and should) buy it for five dollars. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=212&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And a year later&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m going to try and post more regularly to this, given that I just paid ten dollars to keep benjacoby.net registered to its rightful (and somewhat handsome) owner.  Also, for some reason, there are still five or so hits per day consistently registering here. For kicks, here are some of the Google search terms that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=194&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Thirteenth War &#8211; Short Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another story from my writing club. Let me know how you feel &#8212; He loads a bullet into his rifle and pulls a pack of cigarettes from his holey denim jacket. As he lights one, he wonders whether he loves his country. He decides he does not. He is not religious either &#8211; if his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=192&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Easter Sunday &#8211; Flash Fiction</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 04:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Howdy&#8230;I&#8217;m sorry it&#8217;s been awhile. Here&#8217;s a little piece of flash fiction I wrote for my writing club with my friend Joe Kovacs. Let me know what you think! It&#8217;s called &#8216;Easter Sunday&#8217; &#8212;- Every Easter, to celebrate the holiday, I make the drive to my family’s gravesite and sit against my father’s stone. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=190&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Facebook identity crisis</title>
		<link>http://benjacoby.net/2010/05/10/a-facebook-identity-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 17:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was younger, I enjoyed using Facebook. I interacted with distant high school friends and learned more about the people I was meeting at college. Facebook was a means to an end – using Facebook made my real-life social experience better. What is it now? When I log on to Facebook, I see the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=185&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The end of an era</title>
		<link>http://benjacoby.net/2010/04/19/the-end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:19:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are quite a few ways to measure my time at Cognito, which has sadly come to an end: -          One website, which I came to see as my baby (by the way, it’s the mark of a good parent when he knows to let his baby run free) -          Two events, spent talking (perhaps [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=180&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tag Clouds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 02:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Joe showed me a cool website, www.tagxedo.com, where you can make your own fancy tag clouds. Here&#8217;s one for the home page of my website: And here&#8217;s one for my short story, &#8216;On Fire,&#8217; that you can read elsewhere on this website I am pretty sure that this is how cool people spend [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=benjacoby.net&amp;blog=9697415&amp;post=176&amp;subd=benjacoby&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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