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		<title>Accursed land</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 19:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a new one. Former GOP presidential nomination frontrunner Rick Perry has come under some heat for his unconventional and frankly disturbing religious associations. These go beyond the typical guilt by association that plagues politicians who may have encountered some fringe figures in their spiritual pursuits, like Obama&#8217;s close association with the controversial and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=575&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There&#8217;s only one space after a period.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Oct 2011 19:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think Farhad Manjoo is right about a number of things in this essay, one of them being how strongly and perversely people who insist on placing two spaces after a period before beginning the next sentence continue to cling to this misconception. The need to do so is a rule from the age of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=573&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The animated history of the English language in (slightly more than) 10 minutes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Find all 10 videos right here. The first one as a taste:<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=562&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fascinating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 20:42:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rather than obsess on some apparent contradictions here about modesty, viewing the female body, and how competitive weightlifting is judged, I think this story should best be viewed as demonstrating the at-times remarkable elasticity of secular spaces when inclusiveness is an active virtue. Even so, given that cultural forces governing the female body &#8211; gendered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=556&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mosaic law and American courts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The notion that the 10 Commandments are the font or foundation of our contemporary legal code is largely Christianist wishful thinking. And the movement to monument-ize the twin tablets representing Moses&#8217;s transmission of the commandments comes off pretty much as cultural bullying carried out by a rather slim segment of fundamentalist Christians. This article, though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=481&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embassytown, part 2 and City of Glass: Natural languages</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jun 2011 16:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished Embassytown a little while ago, and although I don&#8217;t think I found the second half quite as enjoyable as the setup, it was still well worth the read, as a science fiction novel and as an experimentation in the literary representation of theories of language. Spoilers are certain to follow, so if you&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=531&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wildflower report: May</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/06/14/wildflower-report-may/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the bulletin board above my desk, I pin up lines from favorite poems as reminders. One card has these lines from Gary Snyder&#8217;s &#8220;For the Children&#8221;: Stay together learn the flowers go light Snyder here is imagining life as a difficult hike up and down hills (&#8220;the steep climb / of everything&#8221;), and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=442&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Headscarves and soccer</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/06/13/headscarves-and-soccer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jun 2011 20:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting controversy. And a ridiculous decision on the part of FIFA, the international governing body of professional soccer &#8211; well, football as they call it. Basically, just before the Iranian women&#8217;s team was set to play an Olympic qualifying match against Jordan last week, they were disqualified for wearing uniforms that might cause the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=485&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Embassytown</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/06/01/embassytown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m currently 75 pages into China Mieville&#8217;s new novel Embassytown. And what can I say to recommend it most highly? That it&#8217;s a brilliantly imagined science fiction novel about language and philosophies of language. Yes. That&#8217;s right. A must read. First there&#8217;s the bilingual pun that sets up the universe in which the novel takes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=475&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I gotta say, I agree with this call.</title>
		<link>http://woodthrush.net/2011/05/29/i-gotta-say-i-agree-with-this-call/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 May 2011 03:18:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>donald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I can&#8217;t really claim any expertise in the appropriate application of the Constitution&#8217;s establishment clause, but as a supporter  and critic of secularism, I do have my sympathies for certain directions in its application. And so I find the court right in its determination here. The case concerns efforts by the Department of Veterans [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=woodthrush.net&amp;blog=9411402&amp;post=466&amp;subd=woodthrush&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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