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	<title>Sheila Kennedy &#187; Random Blogging</title>
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	<description>Thinking about Liberty</description>
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		<title>Meritocracy and Mobility</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/meritocracy-and-mobility/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chris Hayes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elites]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meritocracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A great benefit of vacations is time to read. I loaded up the Kindle app on my IPad, and I’ve been going through the digital version of what used to be a pile of books on my nightstand. Yesterday, I finished Chris Hayes “Twilight of the Elites,” and unlike so many of the entirely predictable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High-Tech Boycotts</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/high-tech-boycotts/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/high-tech-boycotts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 09:08:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[boycott]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millenialls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I blogged about research on the “Millennials”—the so-called DotCom generation. I didn’t talk about one really fascinating finding: the tendency of DotCom’s to “vote” with their purchasing power, to boycott products when they disapprove of the company that makes them. As the authors noted, this behavior has not been studied—and it deserves attention. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Generations</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/generations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DotComs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutifuls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GenX]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading a book by several well-known scholars of civic engagement, “A New Engagement? Political Participation, Civic Life, and the Changing America Citizen.” It has been interesting for a number of reasons: the authors compare and contrast four cohorts—the generation prior to the Baby Boomers, which they call “the Dutifuls,” the Boomers, GenX and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houston, We Have A Problem</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/houston-we-have-a-problem-2/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/houston-we-have-a-problem-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 10:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[descriptive representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I remember having a conversation about some intellectually limited legislators with a friend a few years ago; she said (somewhat bitterly) &#8220;the problem with the legislature is that it&#8217;s representative.&#8221; Her point was that we elect people who represent all of us&#8211;informed and not-so-informed, bright and not-so-bright. If things were bad when legislative bodies were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Dick Cheney Were Capable of Shame&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/if-dick-cheney-were-capable-of-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/if-dick-cheney-were-capable-of-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 10:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benghazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dishonesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Darth Cheney has emerged again from whatever hole he occupies, to proclaim the attack on the U.S. Embassy in Bengazi &#8220;the worst disaster&#8221; he can recall, and to assert that it is evidence of the incompetence of the Obama Administration. Leaving aside the fact that the Republicans in Congress engineered significant cuts to the budget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And the Beat Goes On&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/and-the-beat-goes-on/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/and-the-beat-goes-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 10:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American cluelessmess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Bruni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ignorance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NYTimes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Frank Bruni&#8217;s Op Ed in yesterday&#8217;s New York Times reinforces a theme that has become all too common on this blog&#8211;a lament, really. He titled it &#8220;America the Clueless.&#8221; Did you know (I didn&#8217;t) that despite the incredible amount of media devoted to &#8220;Obamacare&#8221; over the past few years, that forty percent of Americans don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Mothers&#8217; Day&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/on-mothers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/on-mothers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 May 2013 13:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mom song]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mothers Day]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This seems appropriate. And so, so accurate.]]></description>
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		<title>That Was Quick&#8230;..</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/that-was-quick/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/that-was-quick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 11:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Heritage Foundation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richwine]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4482</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Heritage Foundation analyst Jason Richwine, the co-author of a study claiming the immigration reform bill pending in the Senate would cost taxpayers $6.3 trillion, has decided to spend more time with his family. Or something. His departure from Heritage was hasty, to say the least. Among other things, Richwine&#8217;s &#8220;study,&#8221; which was widely panned (even Paul Ryan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tribal Nihilism</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/tribal-nihilism/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/tribal-nihilism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 01:06:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Sullivan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conservation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perverse behavior]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent study found that self-identified conservatives were less likely to buy a product, even if the purchase was cost-effective (i.e., better price or longer-lasting product), if it carried a label indicating that the item was good for the environment. This was true even if they had previously purchased the same item&#8211;an energy-efficient light-bulb, for example&#8211;when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom and Pop and Skin in the Game</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/mom-and-pop-and-skin-in-the-game/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/05/mom-and-pop-and-skin-in-the-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2013 00:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big box stores]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[headquarters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[local shops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social capital]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4411</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A 2006 study by sociologists Stephan Goetz and Anil Rupasingha documented a decline in civic participation, including voter turnout and the number of active nonprofit organizations, after Walmart moves into a community. Those behaviors are markers for social capital, the connections citizens have to each other, characterized by what scholars call &#8220;norms of trust and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember the One About the Frog&#8230;?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/remember-the-one-about-the-frog/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/remember-the-one-about-the-frog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 10:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boiling water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crazy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frog]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an old story&#8211;a fable, actually&#8211;about the most effective way to kill a frog. You just put that little creature in a pot of water and slowly but steadily increase the temperature of the water. Eventually, the frog is boiled to death, but because of the slow, incremental elevation of the heat, it doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m Losing Faith in the Human Race</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/why-im-losing-faith-in-the-human-race/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/why-im-losing-faith-in-the-human-race/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[theocrats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wing nuts]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4376</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian recently reported on a speech in which a senior Iranian cleric blamed &#8220;women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously&#8221; for earthquakes. If that sort of crazy were a feature only of theocratic or third-world countries, we might chuckle and ignore it. Unfortunately, however, the amount of lunacy right here at home suggests a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Malpractice</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/media-malpractice/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/media-malpractice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accuracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[informed citizenry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4384</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who can Americans trust to report news accurately? Yesterday, I blogged about a recent survey that showed increasing skepticism about Fox News. Barely a half-hour after I posted, my husband mentioned that he&#8217;d been listening to a newscast on the radio in which the reporter interviewed lawmakers who are calling for the use of military tribunals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out-Foxed?</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/out-foxed/</link>
		<comments>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/out-foxed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 10:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aging audience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[declining ratings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox News]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4378</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Several recent reports have traced a significant decline in Fox News&#8217; audience. There are a couple of reasons. One is the average age of Fox viewers (65); another is a rather significant erosion in the number of &#8220;true believers.&#8221; in a survey of public attitudes toward a variety of media outlets, Public Policy Polling found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random Thoughts Post-Boston</title>
		<link>http://sheilakennedy.net/2013/04/random-thoughts-post-boston/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 12:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shekenne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guns]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rights]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://sheilakennedy.net/?p=4370</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Random observations, in no particular order&#8230; Anyone can buy a pressure cooker, but the Boston bombers also killed with guns. Wonder where they got them? Internet? Gun show? As a friend of mine has noted, we demand background checks to buy Sudafed, but not guns. The right to vote is at least as important as the [...]]]></description>
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