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		<title>Who&#039;s reading what: Scrogues Nightstand</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mackowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What books have been sitting by the Scrogues&#8217; bedside these days? &#8220;My patterns are diverse to the point of randomness,&#8221; says Lex. Mike Sheehan echoes that sentiment: &#8220;There is no rhyme or reason to my reading patterns. I may buy a hot new book and let it sit for months or years before I crack [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=19223&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What are your favorite Scrogues reading?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mackowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to take a look at the books our Scrogues have stacked on their nightstands. Get ready to thumb through books on monopoly capitalism, a history of thought and invention, the adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger, biographies of the number zero and of Josef Stalin (plus a metaphor of Stalin-as-farm-animal), a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=15676&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightstand: What some of your favorite Scholars &amp; Rogues are reading</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Mackowski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is a brain in a synthetic body still human? Is there such a thing as too much horticultural knowledge? Is there such a thing as too much Jane Austen? Is there a link between the JFK assassination and 9/11? Anyone have any good reading suggestions for someone going through a midlife crisis? For answers to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=10824&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightstand: What Scholars &amp; Rogues are reading</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2009/04/03/nightstand-what-scholars-rogues-are-reading/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2009 02:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sam Smith: The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. A wonderful analysis on the difficulty of knowing and the impossibility of predicting. Brian Angliss: The End of Faith by Sam Harris I&#8217;m not done with this book, but it&#8217;s been an interesting read thus far. Harris chronicles a long list of atrocities committed in the name of faith, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=8407&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assigning blame where it&#039;s due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 5)</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2009/01/25/assigning-blame-where-its-due-the-authors-responsible-for-how-scrogues-write-part-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2009 17:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Wendy Redal Hermann Hesse, especially for Narcissus &#38; Goldmund: His study of the tension between reason and emotion as told through the 14th century lives of these two protagonists has served as a backdrop for my enduring awareness of this often troubling [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=7171&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assigning blame where it&#039;s due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 4)</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2009/01/22/assigning-blame-where-its-due-the-authors-responsible-for-how-scrogues-write-part-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Denny Wilkins I wrote and edited news and commentary for a living for 20 years. I, as they say, &#8220;pumped out lots of copy&#8221; in two decades. That necessarily had as much of an impact on my progress and perspective as a [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=6964&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assigning blame where it&#039;s due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (Part 3)</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2009/01/21/assigning-blame-where-its-due-the-authors-responsible-for-how-scrogues-write-part-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. J.S. O&#8217;Brien The most influential writer and book of my life didn&#8217;t influence my writing style one bit (thank God!), but he and his book changed completely changed my life. Most deeply rural, Southern kids back in the day were exposed to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=6941&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assigning blame where it&#039;s due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://scholarsandrogues.com/2009/01/20/assigning-blame-where-its-due-the-authors-responsible-for-how-scrogues-write-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:53:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Lex As a reader of mostly non-fiction, with its division by subject rather than author, this is kind of a tough one for me. It forces me pretty far back, and hence sounds cliched to me&#8230;but here goes. Conrad and Dostoevsky for [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=6916&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Assigning blame where it&#039;s due: The authors responsible for how Scrogues write (part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Russ Wellen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writers who shaped the consciousnesses, and influenced the styles, of Scholars and Rogues. Jim Booth F. Scott Fitzgerald for his prose style &#8211;  Ernest Hemingway for his prose style &#8212; Thomas Wolfe for his prose style Jane Austen for her prose style &#8212; Doris Lessing for her prose style &#8212; Shirley Barker for her prose [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=6895&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nightstand: What Scholars &amp; Rogues is reading</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Sheehan: I&#8217;m reading Marty Beckerman&#8217;s Dumbocracy (Disinformation, 2008). Beckerman, who proudly boasts that Hunter Thompson called him a &#8220;morbid little bastard,&#8221; is an engaging, sharp, equal-opportunity ballbuster who revels in taking to task extremists of the &#8220;loony left&#8221; and &#8221;rabid right&#8221; infecting American sociopolitics. Armed with factoids, anecdotes and amusing personal experiences (such as his brief encounter [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=scholarsandrogues.com&#038;blog=984378&#038;post=5990&#038;subd=scholarsandrogues&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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