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		<title>Toddlers and Tiaras Motherly Hypocrisy</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/02/09/toddlers-and-tiaras-motherly-hypocrisy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have said in the past that I don&#8217;t care for reality television but there are certainly some areas of reality television that are far more creepy than others. Specifically, I am referring to shows like Toddlers and Tiaras &#8212; &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/02/09/toddlers-and-tiaras-motherly-hypocrisy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=611&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paula Deen Gets Her Due as the Krispy Kreme Burger Pusher</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/01/20/paula-deen-gets-her-due-as-the-krispy-kreme-burger-pusher/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/01/20/paula-deen-gets-her-due-as-the-krispy-kreme-burger-pusher/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 18:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Scandal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diabetes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[krispy kreme]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Food Network pusher Paula Deen got her due this week as she finally publicly confessed &#8212; after hiding the fact for three years &#8212; that she has become a Type II Diabetic.  The convenient news of her illness comes as &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/01/20/paula-deen-gets-her-due-as-the-krispy-kreme-burger-pusher/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=603&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Kardashian-Free Year Too Much To Ask?</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/01/05/is-a-kardashian-free-year-too-much-to-ask/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/01/05/is-a-kardashian-free-year-too-much-to-ask/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 18:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[celebrity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kardashian]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It has been nearly five years since the world exploded with the news that there was a sex tape that starred then mostly unknown Kim Kardashian, daughter of the late high profile attorney Robert Kardashian (read &#8212; someone who worked &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2012/01/05/is-a-kardashian-free-year-too-much-to-ask/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=597&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Warren Buffet Should Not Buy the Omaha World Herald</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/20/why-warren-buffet-should-not-buy-the-omaha-world-herald/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/20/why-warren-buffet-should-not-buy-the-omaha-world-herald/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:03:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[berkshire hathaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conflict of interest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[david sokol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[omaha world herald]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[warren buffet]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Warren Buffet is a wealthy man.  He didn&#8217;t get all that money by being dumb, and he&#8217;s done an ingenious, if completely disingenuous and shameful, thing &#8212; by purchasing his powerful hometown newspaper media empire, The Omaha World Herald. OMAHA, &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/20/why-warren-buffet-should-not-buy-the-omaha-world-herald/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=594&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Has iPhone Integration Legitimized Twitter?</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/08/has-iphone-integration-legitimized-twitter/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/08/has-iphone-integration-legitimized-twitter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Public]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word legitimize has some pretty powerful connotations. While researching this article I searched for the word and came across many occurrences of things in the world that were at one point not taken seriously suddenly being treated with respect. &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/08/has-iphone-integration-legitimized-twitter/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=588&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retreating into Turner Classic Movies</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/01/retreating-into-turner-classic-movies/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/01/retreating-into-turner-classic-movies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goodness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[retreat]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Kardashians are just too much to take one second longer, and when TMZ.com and People magazine are overwhelming in their overweening, I have found a calm oasis for escape where morality reigns and outstanding movie making takes center &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/12/01/retreating-into-turner-classic-movies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=585&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heroism of a Two Year Old and a Mobile Phone</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/11/10/the-heroism-of-a-two-year-old-and-a-mobile-phone/</link>
		<comments>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/11/10/the-heroism-of-a-two-year-old-and-a-mobile-phone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Morality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mobile phone]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have written at length about the obnoxiousness of mobile phones and the damage they have done to interpersonal communication in our modern age. It is an age in which people create social bombs to force in person conversation and &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/11/10/the-heroism-of-a-two-year-old-and-a-mobile-phone/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=573&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fire the Millionaire Matchmaker</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/10/27/fire-the-millionaire-matchmaker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Television]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Though I am no big fan of reality television programming and in fact have frequently wished that there would be less reality television and more scripted television (even cheesy television shows are, to me, better than so-called reality programs that &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/10/27/fire-the-millionaire-matchmaker/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=568&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Peter Stone and the Short Con</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/09/29/peter-stone-and-the-short-con/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 19:59:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David W. Boles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Honor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[broadway]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Peter Stone was a great writer of Broadway musicals, movies and television.  He was also prickly, an un-diagnosed INTJ personality, and a good friend and mentor.  Peter always told me I was more than an assistant.  I was his associate. &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/09/29/peter-stone-and-the-short-con/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=564&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering September 11 Through Comics</title>
		<link>http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/09/08/remembering-september-11-through-comics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gordon Davidescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child, the Sunday newspaper was my favorite because the comic section was much bigger, and every comic was in full color. Artists were free to tell stories that could not be told in a confined four panel layout. &#8230; <a href="http://celebritysemiotic.com/2011/09/08/remembering-september-11-through-comics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=celebritysemiotic.com&amp;blog=13477669&amp;post=557&amp;subd=celebsem&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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