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		<title>Comment on HELP! Again by Tyler DiPietro</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/help-again/#comment-1476</link>
		<dc:creator>Tyler DiPietro</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:25:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks to you both! It looks like Felsenstein&#039;s book goes for about 50 bucks on Amazon. Deal, I was expecting to have to pay more than that for a reference text.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to you both! It looks like Felsenstein&#8217;s book goes for about 50 bucks on Amazon. Deal, I was expecting to have to pay more than that for a reference text.</p>
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		<title>Comment on HELP! Again by Ben</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/help-again/#comment-1475</link>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I believe the standard reference text is &quot;Inferring Phylogenies&quot; by Joseph Felsenstein.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I believe the standard reference text is &#8220;Inferring Phylogenies&#8221; by Joseph Felsenstein.</p>
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		<title>Comment on HELP! Again by Pseudonym</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/help-again/#comment-1474</link>
		<dc:creator>Pseudonym</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t know of any journal specifically about phylogenetics, but &lt;i&gt;Systematic Biology&lt;/i&gt; and &lt;i&gt;BMC Bioinformatics&lt;/i&gt; are two quite good ones that we dip into a lot.

As for papers, try &lt;a href=&quot;http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/5/696&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this one&lt;/a&gt; is quite good.  Also, this isn&#039;t a paper, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.caprisa.org/Phylogeny/molsys/data/manual.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;here&#039;s a good explanation of the Bayesian approach&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t know of any journal specifically about phylogenetics, but <i>Systematic Biology</i> and <i>BMC Bioinformatics</i> are two quite good ones that we dip into a lot.</p>
<p>As for papers, try <a href="http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/52/5/696" rel="nofollow">this one</a> is quite good.  Also, this isn&#8217;t a paper, but <a href="http://www.caprisa.org/Phylogeny/molsys/data/manual.pdf" rel="nofollow">here&#8217;s a good explanation of the Bayesian approach</a>.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Why This Rugby Video is Retarded by windy</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/why-this-rugby-video-is-retarded/#comment-1473</link>
		<dc:creator>windy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, I don&#039;t see any of us Eurofags here lecturing on the rules of rugby in obsessive detail. I&#039;ll take your word that it sucks, but as far as I&#039;ve been able to ascertain between flipping channels, American football seems to largely consist of people standing or walking around and shaking their heads.

this game is more entertaining for the spectator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR8ZhWwLMcs</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I don&#8217;t see any of us Eurofags here lecturing on the rules of rugby in obsessive detail. I&#8217;ll take your word that it sucks, but as far as I&#8217;ve been able to ascertain between flipping channels, American football seems to largely consist of people standing or walking around and shaking their heads.</p>
<p>this game is more entertaining for the spectator:<br />
<span style="text-align:center; display: block;"><a href="http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/help-again/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/DR8ZhWwLMcs/2.jpg" alt="" /></a></span></p>
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		<title>Comment on How Right I Can Be by Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/how-right-i-can-be/#comment-1472</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Question:  if &#039;supernatural things&#039; are so unfamiliar that the idea of cause-and-effect isn&#039;t even applicable to them, how can we call anything supernatural &#039;intelligent&#039;?&quot;

&quot;Uh. . . Shut up, you fundamentalist atheist!  That&#039;s why.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Question:  if &#8217;supernatural things&#8217; are so unfamiliar that the idea of cause-and-effect isn&#8217;t even applicable to them, how can we call anything supernatural &#8216;intelligent&#8217;?&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Uh. . . Shut up, you fundamentalist atheist!  That&#8217;s why.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>Comment on Some Things Can Still Make Me Happy by Dustin</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/some-things-can-still-make-me-happy/#comment-1471</link>
		<dc:creator>Dustin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The Hoffman loss left me a little happier.  I was terrified that he was going to win, and then we&#039;d see a rash of Conservative Party candidates in the following years.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Hoffman loss left me a little happier.  I was terrified that he was going to win, and then we&#8217;d see a rash of Conservative Party candidates in the following years.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Steve Fuller is Also a Pig Fucking Shitlord by Dustin</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/steve-fuller-is-also-a-pig-fucking-shitlord/#comment-1470</link>
		<dc:creator>Dustin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:51:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Fortunately, it looks like most of the comments over there are telling Fuller to cram his empty head up his shit-impacted ass.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fortunately, it looks like most of the comments over there are telling Fuller to cram his empty head up his shit-impacted ass.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Steve Fuller is Also a Pig Fucking Shitlord by Dustin</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/steve-fuller-is-also-a-pig-fucking-shitlord/#comment-1469</link>
		<dc:creator>Dustin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The worst thing about Goldberg, Beck, and other talking heads of the far-right is that their views could legitimately be criticized as having fascist components.  It&#039;s doublethink at its finest.

Fuller is actually doing the same thing.  Mussolini (or maybe his ghost writer) said, &quot;If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth ... then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity... From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for hmself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable.&quot;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Umberto Eco&lt;/a&gt; recognized this self-serving solipsism as a defining characteristic of fascism and noted that such radical syncretism is intrinsic to fascist thought.  In such a system, critical thought (which recognizes the resulting contradictions) is rejected as liberal and modern.  Defending reason and critical thought is not fascism.  Attacking reason and critical thought in favor of syncretism is, on the other hand, much closer to the f-bomb.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The worst thing about Goldberg, Beck, and other talking heads of the far-right is that their views could legitimately be criticized as having fascist components.  It&#8217;s doublethink at its finest.</p>
<p>Fuller is actually doing the same thing.  Mussolini (or maybe his ghost writer) said, &#8220;If relativism signifies contempt for fixed categories and those who claim to be the bearers of objective immortal truth &#8230; then there is nothing more relativistic than Fascist attitudes and activity&#8230; From the fact that all ideologies are of equal value, that all ideologies are mere fictions, the modern relativist infers that everybody has the right to create for hmself his own ideology and to attempt to enforce it with all the energy of which he is capable.&#8221;  <a href="http://www.pegc.us/archive/Articles/eco_ur-fascism.pdf" rel="nofollow">Umberto Eco</a> recognized this self-serving solipsism as a defining characteristic of fascism and noted that such radical syncretism is intrinsic to fascist thought.  In such a system, critical thought (which recognizes the resulting contradictions) is rejected as liberal and modern.  Defending reason and critical thought is not fascism.  Attacking reason and critical thought in favor of syncretism is, on the other hand, much closer to the f-bomb.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Steve Fuller is Also a Pig Fucking Shitlord by Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/steve-fuller-is-also-a-pig-fucking-shitlord/#comment-1468</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Steve Fuller appears to belong to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/liberal-fascism-response.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Jonah Goldberg&lt;/a&gt; school of &quot;I&#039;m agin&#039; it, so that make it fascism&quot;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Steve Fuller appears to belong to the <a href="http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2008/01/liberal-fascism-response.html" rel="nofollow">Jonah Goldberg</a> school of &#8220;I&#8217;m agin&#8217; it, so that make it fascism&#8221;.</p>
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		<title>Comment on I&#8217;m Down But Not Out by Blake Stacey</title>
		<link>http://canofpowerup.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/im-down-but-not-out/#comment-1467</link>
		<dc:creator>Blake Stacey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good luck with the new blag!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good luck with the new blag!</p>
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