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	<title>PooterGeek &#187; Africa</title>
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		<title>Chuka Umunna on slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/chuka-umunna-on-slavery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chuka Umunna in The Voice on the question of a UK government apology for slave&#160;trade: African slavery and colonialism are not simply remnants of the past – they helped lay the foundations for the successful modern Britain of today. The effects of slavery are still felt in our communities - many cite the matriarchal nature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People Of Colour</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/06/people-of-colour-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:16:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love tie-and-dye, and used to carry books around in tie-and-dye bags that my mum made for me. It was some time before I became aware (to my discomfort) that people in the west associated it with hippies. Here&#8217;s a BBC slideshow about makers of tie-and-dye fabrics in&#160;Mali.]]></description>
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		<title>Always To The Swift</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/always-to-the-swift/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/always-to-the-swift/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 19:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a neat little article that sketches out why your skin colour doesn&#8217;t determine your chance of growing up to become an elite sprinter; but your genetic make-up might: There are no sprinters of note from Asia, even with more than 50 percent of the world&#8217;s population, a Confucian and Tao tradition of discipline, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not English</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/not-english/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/not-english/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=3122</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just back from lunch watching the first half of Villa versus Newcastle at my local. (Joey Barton is a dirty&#8230;) I live dahn Sarf now so there were about five people apart from me interested in the Midlands against the North-East dotted around the fairly large TV&#160;room. In walks a big black Senegalese bloke I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rumble In The Jungle On The Savannah</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/rumble-in-the-jungle-on-the-savannah/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/rumble-in-the-jungle-on-the-savannah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:12:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This YouTube video of charismatic megafauna fighting by a waterhole starts slowly, but develops into a riveting drama. It&#8217;s got all the ingredients for a Disney animated feature except songs by Elton&#160;John.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Citizen Ghale</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/citizen-ghale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/citizen-ghale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My dad has long been associated, as a member and officer, with the largest UK teaching union, the NAS/UWT. Indeed, in classic working-class northerner style, he first had a heart attack as he arrived at a union conference. Equally typically, after it was initially misdiagnosed by a junior doctor as a digestive problem, he just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snapshots From My Glamorous Life</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/snapshots-from-my-glamorous-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/snapshots-from-my-glamorous-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I noticed a registered Brighton &#38; Hove taxi parked outside the Muslim community centre. Prominent on the dashboard was a hardback copy of Richard Dawkins&#8217; The God Delusion. A couple of days later I saw the car (and the book) again. This time the vehicle was being attended to by two of B&#038;H&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say It Loud: I&#8217;m Chippy And Proud</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/say-it-loud-im-chippy-and-proud/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/03/say-it-loud-im-chippy-and-proud/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2007 13:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2763</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Chippy!&#8221; is the cry of a winner in the lottery of birth losing an&#160;argument. There&#8217;s a scene near the beginning of Casino Royale in which Vesper Lynd practises some amateur psychology on 007 as they sit opposite each other on the Eurostar. She says something&#160;like: You&#8217;re Oxford, but not from money, hence that huge chip [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>A PooterGeek Appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/a-pootergeek-appeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/02/a-pootergeek-appeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been staying at my parents&#8217; this weekend&#8212;thanks, folks&#8212;while I&#8217;ve been attending the National Wedding Show [of which more soon at the Wedding Photography Blog]. The show was on at the National Exhibition Centre, round the corner from their place. As a boy I never imagined that I&#8217;d grow up to spend working Saturdays, for [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dust-Up At The Coffee Bar</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/dust-up-at-the-coffee-bar/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/dust-up-at-the-coffee-bar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 11:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used to tithe a proportion of my earnings to Oxfam. At least three friends of mine have worked for them. One of them wrote the organisation&#8217;s first official monograph on the genocide in&#160;Rwanda. I stopped giving Oxfam my money when they sent me junk mail inviting me to invest in a so-called ethical fund&#8212;that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Age Of Beige</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/the-age-of-beige/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/the-age-of-beige/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 07:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2561</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to my dad for telling me about this article in yesterday&#8217;s Observer sports section about mixed race sportsmen. There&#8217;s lots of pointless hand-wringing about the phrase &#8220;half-caste&#8221;, but it&#8217;s interesting&#160;otherwise. During the rise of Tiger Woods and around the time this hit the headlines I used to joke with a colleague who was a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Motherland</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/the-motherland/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/the-motherland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Micklethwait has a post up about Sierra Leone. It&#8217;s opposite of the sort of thing many of journalists would write about the place, being politically incorrect, interesting to the casual reader, and crude but accurate&#8212;as opposed to sensitive but misleading. It&#8217;s the sort of summary of the place you might get from a mate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Another Career Change</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/another-career-change/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/another-career-change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 13:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2522</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you think it&#8217;s too late for me to hang out in an African children&#8217;s home in the hope of being adopted by a&#160;superstar? Despite his best efforts Derek was unable to get all of Damian&#8217;s hair in frame. For some reason I am reminded to tell you that Our House gallery in Brighton is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8230;Talking Of Cellphone Accessories&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/talking-of-cellphone-accessories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/talking-of-cellphone-accessories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This lovely image began in a Samsung&#160;D600.]]></description>
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		<title>Photos Of &#8220;Day For Darfur&#8221;, London</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/photos-of-the-day-for-darfur-london/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/photos-of-the-day-for-darfur-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Oct 2006 22:45:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the drawbacks of taking photos for a living is that the family / personal /pro bono jobs you do tend to slide down your to-do list. Today I&#8217;ve been squinting at scans and negs on-and-off since about 10am. I bundled up a bunch of print orders just before the lab closed at 6pm, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two-Faced</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/two-faced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/two-faced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 07:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2342</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In its purest forms, capitalism can be ugly, like Mogadishu, or beautiful, like&#160;easyPizza. (Read more about The Stelios Way&#160;here.)]]></description>
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		<title>Backatchya</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/backatchya/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/backatchya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2006 07:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slashdot links to a tale of how a systems administrator scammed a 419 scammer, helped indigenous craftspeople, and obtained two rather nice wooden sculptures. The Age&#160;writes: &#8220;When he found a willing victim, his anti-scam unfolded in much the same way as a typical 419 scam, promising payment only after a substantial investment had been laid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>La Naus&#233;e</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/la-nause/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/la-nause/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A service station just off the Fifth Circle of Hell, very early in the morning, somewhere around the peak hour for suicide attempts: My journey time has been tripled by the closure of relevant sections of the M11 and the M25. The woman who lives in my sat nav has been asked to re-calculate the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Make A Guardian Reader&#8217;s Head Explode</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/how-to-make-a-guardian-readers-head-explode/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/how-to-make-a-guardian-readers-head-explode/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:50:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Be&#160;coloured. Approach a bearded white man who&#8217;s standing outside Waitrose supermarket brandishing a &#8220;BOYCOTT ISRAELI APARTHEID&#8221;&#160;poster. As he is handing out leaflets, tell him in a hurt voice with a posh-African accent*, &#8220;You people have no idea of what apartheid was&#160;like!&#8221; Brush fragments of his skull off your&#160;T-shirt. [Before I told this story to him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Break Out The Bucks Fizz</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/06/break-out-the-bucks-fizz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2006 21:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the subject of christenings, someone at the Motley Fool has noticed that the name of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie&#8217;s new child, &#8220;Shiloh Pitt&#8221;, is a world-class spoonerism waiting to&#160;happen.]]></description>
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		<title>A Sierra Leonean Education</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/02/a-sierra-leonean-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/02/a-sierra-leonean-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2006 22:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the BBC&#8217;s recent picture gallery about education in Sierra&#160;Leone. The Benevolent Kumrabai Rogbanah School was once a train station. The children have never seen a train&#8212;the railway closed in 1974. It is a reminder of how prosperous Sierra Leone once&#160;was. The conditions are cramped with some children forced to sit on the dusty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond The Pale</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/02/beyond-the-pale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/02/beyond-the-pale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2006 13:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Boing Boing has an item about how &#8220;frighteningly easy&#8221; it is to use FedEx to send stuff to Afghanistan. Apparently it&#8217;s also &#8220;frighteningly easy&#8221; to send things to Rwanda and Bhutan. Since my mum was on the phone to me earlier this week wondering how she could send some prints of my photos of Maisie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beige Christmas</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/beige-christmas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/beige-christmas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to Tim and Eric&#8217;s comments, some boring personal information. My mum is from Freetown, Sierra Leone; my dad is from Preston, Lancs. I was born in Nigeria. I left Africa when I was two and have never returned as an adult&#8212;even to visit. Since my cousins have all left, and my grandmother there is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stander Delivers</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/stander-delivers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/stander-delivers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked at a recent party of &#8216;Bloggers why I don&#8217;t write more about Africa and in an email this week by a South African correspondent if I would write something about apartheid. In both cases I pleaded the deadly combination of ignorance and emotion. I just couldn&#8217;t write well about a continent I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Condi. Fly Me.</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/im-condi-fly-me/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/im-condi-fly-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi! Welcome to the CIA Airlines check-in desk. Could I ask you to itemize your hand luggage as you place it on the belt,&#160;sir? Er, one holdall of shoes, running gear, and toiletries; one suitcase of casual clothes; one suit carrier containing three identical black suits and ties with matching Ray-Bans; one attach&#233; case containing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Discontinued Dulux Paint Colours</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/top-ten-discontinued-dulux-paint-colours/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/top-ten-discontinued-dulux-paint-colours/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2005 13:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Burnt&#160;Hummer Institutional&#160;Magnolia Sambo Warm&#160;Placenta Haliborange Coldplay&#160;Yellow Kilroy Autumn&#160;Phlegm Coelacanth&#160;Brown Conrad&#160;Black [Despite / because of my being born into a country in the midst of the Biafran War, a conflict in which one weapon was starvation, it was normal in the house I grew up in for us to respond to uneaten food on a plate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perhaps A Subscription-Only Service?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/perhaps-a-subscription-only-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/perhaps-a-subscription-only-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2005 07:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You think the stuff I put up here is crap? Behind the login page of PooterGeek there are now about one hundred and thirty unpublished posts. Some of them are funny. Many of them are cruel or in bad taste. Some of them aren&#8217;t cruel enough. I mean, what kind of satire could I create [...]]]></description>
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		<title>War, Pestilence, Famine, Death, and Tiffany</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/08/war-pestilence-famine-death-and-tiffany/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/08/war-pestilence-famine-death-and-tiffany/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2005 09:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As Claire put it when emailing me this link, &#8220;Has The Onion started writing everyone&#8217;s headlines?&#8221;: &#8220;Sudan situation &#8216;totally&#160;bad&#8217;&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Could Be Worse</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/07/could-be-worse/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/07/could-be-worse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:47:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Auntie Clarina in Sierra Leone is worried that, living in Cambridge and visiting London as I do from time to time, I might be in&#160;danger.]]></description>
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		<title>Emperor Waves His &#8216;Nads Before World; World Unimpressed</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/07/emperor-waves-his-nads-before-world-world-unimpressed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/07/emperor-waves-his-nads-before-world-world-unimpressed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2005 18:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not going to go into the political or ethical implications of Live8 here and now (though the sozzled socialist Psittacidae are worth reading on the subject). I am going to talk about the artistic ones, because the event illustrated beautifully the central problem with the UK music industry. I don&#8217;t like Pink Floyd very [...]]]></description>
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