<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>Population Statistic &#187; Political</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/category/political/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com</link>
	<description>Read. React. Repeat.</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:15:53 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1</generator>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
			<item>
		<title>&#8220;ISLAM GOT REAL SOFT AFTER THAT&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/11/islam-got-real-soft-after-that/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/11/islam-got-real-soft-after-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7854</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following statement intrigued me enough that I copied and saved it shortly after coming across it online recently:
&#8220;The oil wells dried up in the Middle East, new ones popped up in China. Islam got real soft after that. Everyone did, actually.&#8221;
Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t bother to take note of the source of this enigmatic quote. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/11/islam-got-real-soft-after-that/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A TAXING SODA CAMPAIGN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/04/a-taxing-soda-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/04/a-taxing-soda-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 16:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Until recently, a “sugary beverage tax” of one-penny-per-ounce seemed destined to become law in New York State. But apparently, counter-lobbying by the American Beverage Association killed the proposed bill, and supposedly more persuasive advocacy by the industry turned the tide:
Next, this TV ad from New Yorkers Against Unfair Taxes, a name calculated to make the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/07/04/a-taxing-soda-campaign/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SPY CHICK GOES VIRAL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/29/spy-chick-goes-viral/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/29/spy-chick-goes-viral/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7804</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While the eleven alleged Russian spies just nabbed by the FBI didn&#8217;t seem to dig up much sensitive information, one of them is finding another brand of blown-cover success:
Anna Chapman cut a wide swath in New York even before her arrest on charges of spying for Mother Russia, judging by the sultry shots and videos [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/29/spy-chick-goes-viral/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MIDEAST SUMMER-CAMP WARFARE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/29/mideast-summer-camp-warfare/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/29/mideast-summer-camp-warfare/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 03:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As if there weren&#8217;t enough strife-fronts in the Gaza Strip these days, summertime children&#8217;s venues are now fair game:
Rival day camps by the United Nations and Gaza&#8217;s Islamic militant Hamas rulers compete for the hearts of the next generation, the roughly 700,000 children under 15 who make up nearly half of the Gaza Strip&#8217;s population. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/29/mideast-summer-camp-warfare/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>LICENSE-PLATE TO ADVERTISE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/21/license-plate-to-advertise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/21/license-plate-to-advertise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 03:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tech]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Given how many hours per year the average Californian spends staring at the gridlocked traffic in front of him/her, the Golden State&#8217;s scheme to install electronic ad-enabled license plates on cars is probably a sure moneymaker:
[State Senator] Curren Price, a Democrat from the Los Angeles area, said the technology will resemble traditional license plates, with [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/21/license-plate-to-advertise/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>CALIFORNIA&#8217;S TUITION-FREE FEES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/14/californias-tuition-free-fees/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/14/californias-tuition-free-fees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 03:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7748</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Scholarships collide with semantics in the Golden State, where colleges and universities officially don&#8217;t charge the natives with tuition, but rather &#8220;fees&#8221;:
The state&#8217;s renowned master plan for higher education, which in 1960 established separate roles for the University of California, California State University and the community colleges, also declared that the public institutions &#8220;shall be [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/14/californias-tuition-free-fees/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>FOOD FOR THOUGHT-LEANINGS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/08/food-for-thought-leanings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/08/food-for-thought-leanings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 12:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Food]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/08/food-for-thought-leanings/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[According to some, liberalism travels on its stomach:
&#8230;The idea of being in a city without a decent Thai restaurant drives [liberals] frantic. As long as they can point to a Cambodian eatery or a Syrian café in their town they can reassure themselves that they are among the civilized. Their greatest fear is to be [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/06/08/food-for-thought-leanings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE VIEW FROM THE PALIN WALL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/27/the-view-from-the-palin-wall/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/27/the-view-from-the-palin-wall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 03:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In response to an investigative journalist moving in next door, Sarah Palin is walling off her Wasilla homestead:
&#8220;[Husband] Todd and his buddies started a fence yesterday and it&#8217;s looking good,&#8221; Palin said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about 14 feet high. That&#8217;s what we&#8217;re going to have to do this summer, I guess.&#8221;
The real tragedy here? The hit to [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/27/the-view-from-the-palin-wall/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>NOTICING CURIOUS SKIN-SCRAWLS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/26/noticing-curious-skin-scrawls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/26/noticing-curious-skin-scrawls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 02:51:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7655</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While around town today, I saw at least three young women sporting what looked like ballpoint-pen markings on their hands and forearms. From my vantage point, these markings looked like random letter- and number-scribblings &#8212; not at all like tattoo or henna patterns, or anything else that might have stylish permanence.
Is this some new trend? [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/26/noticing-curious-skin-scrawls/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>DOGGIN&#8217; IT AT THE GREEK RIOTS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/08/doggin-it-at-the-greek-riots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/08/doggin-it-at-the-greek-riots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 00:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7563</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Perhaps compelled to represent Athens&#8217; renowned population of stray canines, the enigmatic Rebel Dog has made himself a fixture during the regular stream of Greek protests:
Amid the turmoil of the Greece financial crisis, photos and videos of street protests have turned up a kind of canine &#8220;Where&#8217;s Waldo&#8221; figure: a mutt that may have some [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/08/doggin-it-at-the-greek-riots/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>BRITAIN&#8217;S HUNG THIRD PARTY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/08/britains-hung-third-party/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/08/britains-hung-third-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 20:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week featured some prime political irony in the UK: After televised debates and sound-bite slips brought criticism that British national elections were becoming too Americanized, the poll results delivered the most un-American outcome of all in a no-majority &#8220;hung Parliament&#8221;.
So I guess this is the right time for Stateside gloating over our much-maligned two-party [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/08/britains-hung-third-party/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>EUROZONE HORSE-TRADING</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/02/eurozone-horse-trading/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/02/eurozone-horse-trading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 19:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It worked for the Greeks once before, so why not try the oldschool Trojan tactic on this present-day crisis?
Finance ministers from sixteen EU nations awoke in Brussels this morning to find that a huge wooden horse had been wheeled into the city center overnight.
The horse, measuring several stories in height, drew mixed responses from the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/05/02/eurozone-horse-trading/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>TIT TREMORS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/26/tit-tremors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/26/tit-tremors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 01:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Media Online]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Consider the above photo to be my contribution to today&#8217;s boobquake experiment. Not that that&#8217;s my rackage wrapped in a Life Savers bra &#8212; my Y chromosome, combined with a general lack of estrogen, leaves me without enough breast tissue to fill even an A-cup. But I couldn&#8217;t pass up the opportunity to re-use this [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/26/tit-tremors/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MY EARTH DAY PROTEST POST: ROUND-NUMBER RECYCLE EDITION</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/22/my-earth-day-protest-post-round-number-recycle-edition/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/22/my-earth-day-protest-post-round-number-recycle-edition/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7479</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only is today Earth Day, it&#8217;s the 40th anniversary of the observance. Four decades is long enough for the movement to have evolved, from single-focused eco-green to a green philosophy infused with more pragmatic blue-sky thinking &#8212; a so-called &#8220;turquoise&#8221; approach.
I offer no such tempering for my own blog-based Earth Day tradition, which is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/22/my-earth-day-protest-post-round-number-recycle-edition/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE SELLING OF THE CENSUS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/19/the-selling-of-the-census/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/19/the-selling-of-the-census/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:57:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7470</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The full-court press to get out the count for this 2010 Census is especially marketing-oriented when compared to the usual governmental calls to action. The notable Super Bowl commercial kicking off the campaign seemed to set a consumerist approach toward Constitutional enumeration, and that focus on the to-be-apportioned Federal lucre is rubbing some the wrong [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/19/the-selling-of-the-census/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>CASTRO&#8217;S DEBUNKED ALTERNATE-HISTORY MLB PEDIGREE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/12/castros-debunked-alternate-history-mlb-pedigree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/12/castros-debunked-alternate-history-mlb-pedigree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7423</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
One of the more persistent legends in baseball lore concerns a young Fidel Castro and his flirtation with a Major League Baseball career in the 1950s. The story goes that his pitching performance for his college team in Havana attracted the notice of a New York Giants (some say Washington Senators) scout, who promptly offered [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/12/castros-debunked-alternate-history-mlb-pedigree/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SCHOOLHOUSE ROCKIN&#8217; THE CONSTITUTION&#8217;S PREAMBLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/08/schoolhouse-rockin-the-constitutions-preamble/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/08/schoolhouse-rockin-the-constitutions-preamble/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7388</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Who knows why I spontaneously started humming the tune to the old Schoolhouse Rock &#8220;Preamble&#8221; song earlier this afternoon? I suppose that, with as many times as I watched those animated Saturday morning shorts back during my 70s childhood, the edutainment-themed rhythms burrowed their way permanently into my brain. (It&#8217;ll be interesting when senility hits.)
And [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/04/08/schoolhouse-rockin-the-constitutions-preamble/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SINO-ANIME</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/28/sino-anime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/28/sino-anime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 03:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7308</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Since it arrived on American shores, anime has been synonymous with Japan. But in the near future, it might be more closely identified with China:
In November, the government&#8217;s cultural arm established the China Animation Comic Group Co. to foster a &#8220;great leap forward&#8221; in animation production, technology and marketing. Part of the plan includes building [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/28/sino-anime/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SECEDING FROM PLANET EARTH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/27/seceding-from-planet-earth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/27/seceding-from-planet-earth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
In his own words, here&#8217;s what Will Eisner was going for in his second full-length graphic novel, &#8220;Life on Another Planet&#8221;:
&#8220;This was&#8230; an attempt to produce a graphic novel that was constructed in the same structure as a classic literary work. By taking what would be a science-fiction plot and treating it from a more [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/27/seceding-from-planet-earth/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ITALY&#8217;S PURPLE POLITICS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/24/italys-purple-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/24/italys-purple-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 19:13:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7288</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to Italian populism, purple is the new black:
The Purple People, who are not affiliated with any party, say they chose purple because it is not traditionally associated with politics, like red or blue. They contend [Premier Silvio] Berlusconi is undermining Italian democracy through his concentration of power and alleged use of his [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/24/italys-purple-politics/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A SELF-DESTRUCTIVE SUB-SAHARAN POLITICAL CULTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/24/a-self-destructive-sub-saharan-political-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/24/a-self-destructive-sub-saharan-political-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7286</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Insofar as I keep track of the political turmoil in Somalia, or the rest of Africa, the following summation of the apparent late decline of the Islamist militant group Shabab seems fitting:
Defectors said the Shabab have begun plucking children off soccer fields, taking them to secret training camps, brainwashing and drugging them. The Shabab seem [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/24/a-self-destructive-sub-saharan-political-culture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MARYLAND SECEDES FROM THE SOUTH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/21/maryland-secedes-from-the-south/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/21/maryland-secedes-from-the-south/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:27:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Civil War was 150 years ago, so it&#8217;s a bit late for Maryland to switch sides. But it is, by switching from the Southern region of the Council of State Governments to the East region, thus disassociating from its fellow former slave-holding states.
This official shift merely confirms what&#8217;s been happening in the Old Line [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/21/maryland-secedes-from-the-south/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>FALLING OFF THE ACORN TREE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/16/falling-off-the-acorn-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/16/falling-off-the-acorn-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7251</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once-proud branches of the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now are now rushing to shed that video-stung ACORN tag:
One of the latest groups to adopt a new name is ACORN Housing, long one of the best-funded affiliates. Now, the group is calling itself the Affordable Housing Centers of America.
Others changing their names include what [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/16/falling-off-the-acorn-tree/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE LEFT-RIGHT JEFFERSONIAN PURGE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/15/the-left-right-jeffersonian-purge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/15/the-left-right-jeffersonian-purge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7245</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Among the predictable anti-1960s culture-war changes proposed by the newly-reactionary Texas State Board of Education for school textbooks is an almost out-of-place targeting of the nation&#8217;s third President:
- Thomas Jefferson no longer included among writers influencing the nation’s intellectual origins. Jefferson, a deist who helped pioneer the legal theory of the separation of church and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/15/the-left-right-jeffersonian-purge/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>STORY OF RIELLE HUNTER&#8217;S LIFE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/15/story-of-rielle-hunters-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/15/story-of-rielle-hunters-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:21:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7241</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rielle Hunter is back, with a tell-all interview in GQ Magazine about her Presidential-quashing paternity affair with John Edwards.
Not that I care much for political scandal, even one as sorted as this one. I am happy to see that Hunter took a little time in the interview to acknowledge her antecedaneous 1980s fictional depiction:
There&#8217;s been [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/15/story-of-rielle-hunters-life/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>CORPORATE CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/13/corporate-candidate-for-congress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/13/corporate-candidate-for-congress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 18:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7229</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Supreme Court has OKed unbridled corporation spending on political campaigns, one intrepid company is cutting out the middleman:
In a soothing voice, a narrator bemoans that &#8220;as much as corporate interests gave to politicians, we could never be absolutely sure they would do our bidding.&#8221; The ad includes images of gleaming office towers [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/03/13/corporate-candidate-for-congress/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>OIL PRICES AND THE MISPLACED AFRICAN COUP</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/oil-prices-and-the-misplaced-african-coup/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/oil-prices-and-the-misplaced-african-coup/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7155</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Niger is one African country, Nigeria is another. This subtle distinction seems to elude geographically-challenged oil traders:
“Markets took off at around the same time a Reuters story came out about gunfire erupting in the Niger capital in an apparent coup bid, mistaken by many as being Nigeria,” said Tom Bentz, analyst at BNP Paribas Commodities.
Reuters [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/02/21/oil-prices-and-the-misplaced-african-coup/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>TERROR-TRIAL ECONOMIC STIMULUS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/terror-trial-economic-stimulus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/terror-trial-economic-stimulus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7057</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While Manhattan has just successfully spurned the potentially-disruptive Federal trial of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, my upstate hometown is ready to take the rebound as the new venue.
The offer is not driven by a sense of justice, so much:
&#8220;If they want to have it here, we’ve got the state-of-the-art courthouse,&#8221; [Newburgh, NY] Mayor Nicholas Valentine &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/terror-trial-economic-stimulus/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>PRO-PUTIN POP PROPAGANDA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/pro-putin-pop-propaganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/pro-putin-pop-propaganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s nearly a decade old now, but this techno-tuned song about Russian leader Vladimir Putin is still going strong:

How strong? In keeping with the cult-of-personality theme in Putin&#8217;s political career, consider the winning of hearts and minds via urban sing-a-longs:
It&#8217;s winter in Russia. At night, Muscovites crowd the clubs and request their karaoke favorite, &#8220;A [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/30/pro-putin-pop-propaganda/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>GOING ROGUE, VIA BUS ROUTE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/going-rogue-via-bus-route/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/going-rogue-via-bus-route/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=7035</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was quite amused today to see a copy of Sarah Palin&#8217;s &#8220;Going Rogue: An American Life&#8221; sitting on dashboard of my morning bus, obviously in possession of the bus driver.
Because it was all too obvious that he was practically brandishing the hardcover, making sure that every rider that got onboard had a good view [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/25/going-rogue-via-bus-route/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MEXICO&#8217;S TEN-VOLUTIONS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/mexicos-ten-volutions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/mexicos-ten-volutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 21:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Mexico, it&#8217;s not the Mayan home-grown 2012 doomsday that&#8217;s the big calender-numerological worry. Rather, it&#8217;s this year, for historical-repeat reasons:
First there was 1810, when an insurgent priest named Miguel Hidalgo gave a nighttime battle cry that sent thousands of Mexicans into the streets to oust the Spaniards. Then came 1910, the year that was [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/17/mexicos-ten-volutions/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>BLOW GOES GAGA ON PALIN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/blow-goes-gaga-on-palin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/blow-goes-gaga-on-palin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Not only did New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow make an overt comparison between Sarah Palin and Lady GaGa in the headline of his &#8220;Lady BlahBlah&#8221; piece today; he also weaved some GaGa-ness into the body of his writing:
I embedded as many of her song/cd titles as possible in my column. How many can [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/16/blow-goes-gaga-on-palin/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE ONE WITH ALL THE YEMEN</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/06/the-one-with-all-the-yemen/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/06/the-one-with-all-the-yemen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:39:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a little sad that, with a new active front opening in the War on Terror, the only thing most Americans know about Yemen is that Chandler Bing once fled there to avoid breaking up with a girl.
Leading to&#8230; &#8220;Friends&#8221; as a proto-al Qaeda sleeper cell? It&#8217;s not like those Central-Perky twits had anything else [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/06/the-one-with-all-the-yemen/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>PALINDROME DAY, WITHOUT SARAH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/02/palindrome-day-without-sarah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/02/palindrome-day-without-sarah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For Americans, today&#8217;s month-day-year timestamp works in reverse:
That’s because it’s only the second palindrome day of the 21st century, meaning that if you flip the day over it reads the same: 01/02/2010. (And, no, this is not another story about Sarah Palin, though it could be since “Harass Sarah” is sort of a cool palindrome&#8230;
The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2010/01/02/palindrome-day-without-sarah/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MY OWN PERSONAL PRE-FLIGHT ALERT LEVEL</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/29/my-own-personal-pre-flight-alert-level/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/29/my-own-personal-pre-flight-alert-level/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 23:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the attempted Christmas Day plane bombing in Detroit, the predictable (and largely pointless) overreaction has made flying that much more laborious in these United States.
And, as luck would have it, I&#8217;m due for some cross-country travel in the next few days. So, from a purely selfish perspective, that wannabe al-Qaeda jerk [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/29/my-own-personal-pre-flight-alert-level/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE GREAT TARP-CAP PAYBACK</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/24/the-great-tarp-cap-payback/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/24/the-great-tarp-cap-payback/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After teetering on the brink of collapse a year ago, the big banks are suddenly coming up with billions of dollars to put toward TARP repayments.
And it&#8217;s not hard to figure out why:
Look what&#8217;s happened in the past two weeks. First, Bank of America agreed to pay back $45 billion in TARP funds. Bank of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/24/the-great-tarp-cap-payback/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>POSSIBLE PRISON POPULATION PLUNGE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/20/possible-prison-population-plunge/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/20/possible-prison-population-plunge/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;Well, &#8220;plunge&#8221; is a real stretch. But I&#8217;m invoking alliterative license &#8212; four P&#8217;s in a row, zing! &#8212; to headline the news that the number of inmates in America looks to go down this year, for the first time since 1972.
Not surprisingly, it&#8217;s not because there are fewer crimes being committed:
Instead, the economic crisis [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/20/possible-prison-population-plunge/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE ETHICAL TREATMENT OF ANGEL FEATHERS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/07/the-ethical-treatment-of-angel-feathers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/07/the-ethical-treatment-of-angel-feathers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Advert./Mktg.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Women]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6802</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
There have been so many naked-model ads for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that this latest one, featuring Joanna Krupa, really shouldn&#8217;t cause anyone to bat an eye.
Anyone other than the Catholic League, which objects to the whole ornate-cross-as-angelic-bikini imagery. For that matter, Krupa&#8217;s work here does inspire me to convert to Catholicism, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/07/the-ethical-treatment-of-angel-feathers/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>DIRTY WAR BEGETS DIRTY DNA</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/06/dirty-war-begets-dirty-dna/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/06/dirty-war-begets-dirty-dna/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[True Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6800</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At what point does public commonweal override individual privacy? That&#8217;s the painful point of contention right now in Argentina, as about 400 orphans from the 1976-83 &#8220;dirty war&#8221; will be forced to provide DNA samples to determine if their biological parents were victims of the era&#8217;s dictatorship.
Children of the &#8220;disappeared&#8221; were often given to military [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/06/dirty-war-begets-dirty-dna/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>THE WINGNUT&#8217;S BIBLE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/05/the-wingnuts-bible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/05/the-wingnuts-bible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6788</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If Jesus always came off as too namby-pamby for your liking, the Conservative Bible Project will deliver a Scripture free from suspected liberal-leaning translative interpretation:
The project&#8217;s authors argue that contemporary scholars have inserted liberal views and ahistorical passages into the Bible, turning Jesus into little more than a well-meaning social worker with a store of [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/05/the-wingnuts-bible/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MANHATTAN&#8217;S CHELSEA-CLINTON</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/04/manhattans-chelsea-clinton/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/04/manhattans-chelsea-clinton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Yorkin']]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6786</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[News of former First Daughter Chelsea Clinton getting engaged triggered this never-before-realization by me:
Everyone&#8217;s heard of New York&#8217;s a-little-too-hip Chelsea neighborhood. And everyone&#8217;s heard of (in one way or another) the nearby Hell&#8217;s Kitchen section of town.
What not everyone might know is that these two zones are, in fact, adjacent to one another. And furthermore, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/04/manhattans-chelsea-clinton/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>CALIFORNIA&#8217;S NO-DIVORCE SANCTITY</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/01/californias-no-divorce-sanctity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/01/californias-no-divorce-sanctity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[From the same state that saw a cessation of marriage-license granting due to same-sex union fears comes a movement to outlaw all Golden State divorces.
Relax. It&#8217;s decidedly tongue-in-cheek, albeit with serious undertones:
The 2010 California Marriage Protection Act is meant to be a satirical statement after California voters outlawed gay marriage in 2008, largely on the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/12/01/californias-no-divorce-sanctity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SADDAM TV</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/29/saddam-tv/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/29/saddam-tv/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Live (make that &#8220;posthumously&#8221;), from Baghdad (make that &#8220;Europe&#8221;, or more likely &#8220;location undetermined&#8221;), it&#8217;s the Saddam Channel, satellite-beaming into Iraq:
The Saddam Channel debuted on Friday, the first day of this year&#8217;s Eid for Sunnis. The holiday started Saturday for Shiites. The station&#8217;s official name alternates between &#8220;Al-Lafeta&#8221; (&#8220;the banner&#8221;) and &#8220;Al-Arabi&#8221; (&#8220;the Arab&#8221;).
It is [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/29/saddam-tv/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>GOING ROGUE ON SCRABBLE TILES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/28/going-rogue-on-scrabble-tiles/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/28/going-rogue-on-scrabble-tiles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:17:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Publishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wordsmithing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6760</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, Sarah Palin just blew it with one key constituency &#8212; hardcore Scrabble junkies, who object to this seemingly family-friendly passage from her new autobiography:
&#8220;Everybody in the family played Scrabble and took great pride in hoarding Ks and Qs and slapping them down in long, fancy words on triple-letter scores.&#8221;  &#8212; &#8220;Going Rogue&#8221;, p. [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/28/going-rogue-on-scrabble-tiles/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>RHODE ISLAND&#8217;S FEAR OF GAY GRAVES</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/27/rhode-islands-fear-of-gay-graves/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/27/rhode-islands-fear-of-gay-graves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think that gay marriage opponents&#8217; objections end at &#8220;&#8217;til death do us part&#8221;, think again: In Rhode Island, gender-spousal issues extend beyond this mortal coil.
An opponent of same-sex marriage, Governor [Donald] Carcieri has vetoed bill that would have added &#8220;domestic partners&#8221; to the list of people authorized by law to make funeral arrangements [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/27/rhode-islands-fear-of-gay-graves/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>RUSSIAN UN-STANDARD TIME</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/12/russian-un-standard-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/12/russian-un-standard-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 04:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think Daylight Saving Time is a big hassle, consider the clockwork tyranny inherent in Russia&#8217;s proposed downsizing of its 11 timezones:
[Russian President Dmitry] Medvedev didn&#8217;t say how extensive any cut would be, but Vladivostok Economics University rector Gennady Lazarev told the RIA Novosti news agency it would likely mean shrinking to just four [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/12/russian-un-standard-time/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>ARNOLD&#8217;S ACROSTIC F-BOMB VETO</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/01/arnolds-acrostic-f-bomb-veto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/01/arnolds-acrostic-f-bomb-veto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Since he&#8217;s being term-limited out of office next year anyway, California&#8217;s &#8220;People&#8217;s Governor&#8221; is dropping governmental decorum and letting it rip in Sacramento. Arnold is being creative about it, though:
To recap: on Tuesday a hidden message was detected in a note accompanying a veto Governor Schwarzenegger sent to California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. When read like [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/11/01/arnolds-acrostic-f-bomb-veto/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>MUSICIANS AGAINST MUSICAL TORTURE</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/22/musicians-against-musical-torture/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/22/musicians-against-musical-torture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6582</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently aghast at the idea of their tunes aiding and abetting Gitmo-style interrogations, pop musicians have filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the playlists used by the CIA during their loud-music torture sessions.
And just what musical medley do government spooks find most effective in making prisoners crack?
[Suzanne] Cusick, the NYU music professor, has [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/22/musicians-against-musical-torture/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>POLI, SIGH</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/21/poli-sigh/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/21/poli-sigh/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:31:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[College Years]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Political]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The jig is up for us political scientists (my BA says I&#8217;m one, thanks very much): Congress is debating cutting National Science Foundation funding for a discipline that can&#8217;t decide just how &#8220;scientific&#8221; it is (or isn&#8217;t):
“The danger is that political science is moving in the direction of saying more and more about less and [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/21/poli-sigh/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>SARAH PALIN, COBRA COMMANDRESS</title>
		<link>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/21/sarah-palin-cobra-commandress/</link>
		<comments>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/21/sarah-palin-cobra-commandress/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Costa Tsiokos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Movies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.populationstatistic.com/?p=6575</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Here&#8217;s an interpretation of the lovely Sienna Miller&#8217;s recent work in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra that I hadn&#8217;t picked up on:
For half the movie she’s the Baroness, a brainwashed villain in glasses and dark hair who looks unnervingly like Sarah Palin.
What&#8217;s the official backstory on The Baroness? Does she happen to be descended [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.populationstatistic.com/archives/2009/10/21/sarah-palin-cobra-commandress/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>
