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	<title>VDV&#039;s Journal, Part IV</title>
	<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv</link>
	<description>Vivid, critical insomnolence</description>
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		<title>Bash.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got to work this morning after driving in the dark after waking up too biologically early after going to sleep at what felt like the right time. I think I could handle Daylight Savings Time better if the shift were more gradual, say, moving the clocks ahead in 10-minute increments over the course of six [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/03/15/bash/</link>
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		<title>Metametadream.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I neglected to write about this one a while back:
I am at my aunt&#8217;s house for a big family dinner. I don&#8217;t know what the occasion is; there probably isn&#8217;t one. Car by car, family members show up and march into the house for the feast.
A dark red minivan, which I don&#8217;t recognize, pulls into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/03/08/metametadream/</link>
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		<title>A new heroine.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hope this article is a hoax, but I fear it isn&#8217;t:
Two environmentally-conscious loons down in Argentina killed their two-year-old son, shot their seven-month-old daughter, and then relieved themselves of the burdens of their failed and useless lives. According to the suicide note, they were afraid of global warming&#8211;which is ironic considering their likely eternal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/03/01/a-new-heroine/</link>
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		<title>Governmenty stuff.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(Nothing exciting, inspiring or salacious in this one, folks. Sorry.)
In recent weeks there&#8217;s been talk of using a procedure called &#8220;reconciliation&#8221; to pass health-care reform in the Senate. It&#8217;s controversial because reconciliation is not subject to a filibuster, which effectively means that it only takes 51 votes to pass a bill instead of 60. Because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/02/28/governmenty-stuff/</link>
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		<title>2010 Resolution #10.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my &#8220;Resolutions for 2010,&#8221; #10 was &#8220;I shall make a 10th resolution before February 28th, 2010.&#8221; I now have one. It will require effort. It will require planning.  It will require, as all good resolutions should (which I suppose means some of mine aren&#8217;t good resolutions), resolve. I hereby resolve that:
10. When I leave [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/02/21/2010-resolution-10/</link>
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		<title>One measly point.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day to all! Today&#8217;s topic is decidedly non-romantic, for my own sweet patootie is out of town visiting her dying multi-billionaire parents at the Tuscan villa she bought them with her supermodeling money, next to her quantum fluctuation research lab.
Anyhow, since we&#8217;re up against Washington&#8217;s Birthday (Observed) tomorrow, various websites have various rankings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/02/14/one-measly-point/</link>
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		<title>The obligatory Bears connection.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t care who won, but as the final seconds ticked away, it occurred to me that the Saints are Ditka&#8217;s other team and that Sean Payton was a QB for the Bears in 1987. I even wore my Bears &#8220;C-shirt&#8221; during the game. It seems the Saints had to win. It could happen no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/02/07/the-obligatory-bears-connection/</link>
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		<title>Sponge.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, whilst reminding my students that they need to study a subject every night leading up to an exam (instead of cramming in the five minute passing period before the exam begins), I told them that the human brain is like a dry, hard sponge.
You have a dry sponge in the sink. You have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/02/07/sponge/</link>
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		<title>The broken window.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have to credit a friend from college with pointing this out:
Here&#8217;s President Obama on the stimulus, from his 2010 State of the Union Address:
The plan that has made all of this possible, from the tax cuts to the jobs, is the Recovery Act. That&#8217;s right -– the Recovery Act, also known as the stimulus [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/01/31/the-broken-window/</link>
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		<title>Protected: Zero.</title>
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		<link>http://viscariello.com/vdv/2010/01/24/zero/</link>
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