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		<title>New Dell Support Policy: Hang Up On Customers Who Ask to Talk To Your Supervisor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh, Dell. I thought since Jeff kicked you around the block way-back-when, you had learned your lesson. I thought you had changed. But here you go, breaking my heart again. I won&#8217;t bore our readers with the full saga. But the sketch, for those joining our drama late: after our long talks about my lemon [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2011/04/20/new-dell-support-policy-hang-up-on-customers-who-ask-to-talk-to-your-supervisor/</link>
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		<title>Happy 10th, Hugh and Duane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today marks the tenth anniversary of my friend Hugh Hewitt&#8217;s radio program. (Tomorrow, July 10th, technically, but today is the closest broadcast day). Together with his Faithful Sidekick Duane &#8220;Radioblogger&#8221; Patterson, Hugh has been cranking out fifteen hours of on-air sanity and wisdom since 2000. When I noted this happy occasion, what surprised me is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/07/09/happy-10th-hugh-and-duane/</link>
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		<title>A Short Open Letter to Christopher Hitchens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To: Christopher Hitchens From: Rob Neppell Re: Slacking Mr. Hitchens: At the risk of being morbid (although your memoir does a well enough job of going there), I simply wanted to make one thing clear. You are not allowed to die. Not yet, at least, and certainly not anytime soon. Your work upon this earth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/06/30/a-short-open-letter-to-christopher-hitchens/</link>
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		<title>Obama votes &#8216;present&#8217; &#8211; and that&#8217;s a good thing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McChrystal is out, and Petraeus is in as commander of our forces in Afghanistan. However, the bizarre part is that in making this choice Obama is also (reportedly, waiting for a source to link to) keeping Petraeus in charge of CENTCOM &#8212; thereby making him his own boss, and oh, yeah, assigning two 24/7/365 jobs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/06/23/obama-votes-present-and-thats-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<title>First Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My first Father&#8217;s Day as an actual dad. Twice over! I&#8217;ll spare you a treatise on the joys of fatherhood, and simply say: it&#8217;s joyful, especially when you are as lucky as I to have two wonderful, amazing, adorable cubs. And a tip of the hat and happy dad&#8217;s day to all the other father&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/06/20/first-fathers-day/</link>
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		<title>Why I am not worthy: Mark Steyn demonstrates the proper art of the takedown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Even being a snippy dweeb requires a certain amount of finesse.&#8220;]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/06/20/why-i-am-not-worthy-mark-steyn-demonstrates-the-proper-art-of-the-takedown/</link>
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		<title>Remember and Honor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why should anyone want to listen to what I, a civilian to the core, have to say on Memorial Day, when we honor those who have fallen in service of our country? The answer, of course, is that they shouldn&#8217;t. But you should listen to those who have served, and to whom this day is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/31/remember-and-honor/</link>
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		<title>Congressional DADT Action: You keep using the word &#8220;repeal&#8221;. I do not think it means what you think it means.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So everyone is blaring headlines that say things like Senate panel and House vote to repeal &#8216;don&#8217;t ask, don&#8217;t tell&#8217; . Um, no. What they voted for is to sorta-kinda empower Team Obama to repeal DADT, if and only if he, his SecDef, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs promise Congress, in writing, that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/28/congressional-dadt-action-you-keep-using-the-word-repeal-i-do-not-think-it-means-what-you-think-it-means/</link>
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		<title>BP upgrades assessment from modest to &#8220;environmental catastrophe&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Via CNN BP&#8217;s top official, who had previously said the environmental impact on Gulf of Mexico would be modest, upgraded his assessment Friday to an &#8220;environmental catastrophe.&#8221; They have a designated status level for &#8220;environmental catastrophe&#8221;? Heck, why not just call it &#8220;Please commence suing us into bankruptcy&#8221; and be done with it?]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/28/bp-upgrades-assessment-from-modest-to-environmental-catastrophe/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Blogginghead: Bob Wright video interview with me on Tea Parties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been a fan of Bloggingheads.tv since it was created; heck, as I just told founder Bob Wright, I happened to have grabbed my Bloggingheads.tv t-shirt (which was given to me personally by sort-of co-founder Mickey Kaus) on the way to the hospital when my sons were born, so the very first pictures of me [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/25/im-a-blogginghead-bob-wright-video-interview-with-me-on-tea-parties/</link>
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		<title>Bitter gun-clingers finally demonstrate usefulness to Obama administration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Scenes from the checkout line&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/19/bitter-gun-clingers-finally-demonstrate-usefulness-to-obama-administration/</link>
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		<title>Flashback: Bloggers, The Musical</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I warned you there might be nostalgia this week. Starting on the lighter side, from May 24, 2002, I give you Bloggers, The Musical: Bloggers: The Musical For no apparent reason, I hearby open nominations for the Bloggers: The Musical. Pick a blogger, find that perfect theme song that just sums ‘em all up, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/18/flashback-bloggers-the-musical/</link>
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		<title>Eight Years On: N.Z. Bear and Beyond</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From The Truth Laid Bear, May 16, 2002: The news of the day (yesterday, to be precise) is the White House&#8217;s  minor little revelation that there was indeed some warning that Al Qaeda planned to hijack American airliners. Somehow this tidbit appears to have slipped everyone&#8217;s mind at 1600 Pennsylvania until just yesterday. Tip of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2010/05/17/eight-years-on-n-z-bear-and-beyond/</link>
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		<title>In which I hand over my crown to this year&#8217;s queen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;This big. No, really!&#8221; Congratulations to Ace, this year&#8217;s CPAC Blogger of the Year ! As last year&#8217;s winner, I will be showing Ace the ropes. It&#8217;s a tough job, of course &#8212; waving through all the parades, opening all those malls, ribbon cuttings and the like. The fans are wonderful, although I have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2008/02/08/in-which-i-hand-over-my-crown-to-this-years-queen/</link>
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		<title>Game Over for Mitt Romney</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just watched Mitt Romney announce his withdrawal from the race here at CPAC. A sad day indeed, but not entirely surprisingly, and arguably the right thing to do for the GOP and the nation. Upon taking the stage, Romney received a reception that made the event look like a Romney rally: I must admit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2008/02/07/game-over-for-mitt-romney/</link>
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		<title>Live from the FRC&#8217;s Washington Briefing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from the Family Research Council&#8217;s Washington Briefing &#8212; the &#8220;premier values voter event of 2007&#8221; ! Whoah. To quote Admiral Stockdale &#8212; &#8220;Why I am I here?&#8221; Well, because I was invited, despite being a vaguely RINO-like libertarian type. And because it&#8217;s an opportunity to get up close and personal with the true social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2007/10/19/live-from-the-frcs-washington-briefing/</link>
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		<title>Stand By The Troops !</title>
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		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2007/09/08/stand-by-the-troops/</link>
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		<title>New NYT Building: Metaphor? What Metaphor?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So we all know that the mainstream media is dying, but I had not realized it had actually begun to exhibit the characteristics of a rotting corpse: &#8220;The soaring new New York Times tower — already known for its weird toilets (when flushed, they apparently sound like a kitten being strangled), its weirder elevators (no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2007/07/07/new-nyt-building-metaphor-what-metaphor/</link>
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		<title>Immigration Bill: Online and Awaiting Your Comments</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Late Friday night, an electronic version of the &#8220;immigration reform&#8221; bill was finally published, and quickly found its way into the hands of KLo at the Corner. From there, it has spread all over the net, of course. But the published version is a big, clunky PDF file (which, if you like, you can download [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2007/05/20/immigration-bill-online-and-awaiting-your-comments/</link>
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		<title>Immigration Bill: Bigger Than The Bible, Not Nearly As Enlightened</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone&#8217;s talking about the immigration bill, as well they should be. It sounds like a complete train wreck to me, and to many others. I always want to judge for myself though, and so I&#8217;m keeping a watch out for when the actual text of the bill becomes available online &#8212; which I hear might [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rob.neppell.org/2007/05/18/immigration-bill-bigger-than-the-bible-not-nearly-as-enlightened/</link>
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