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		<title>Animals Or Savages?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/animals-or-savages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Apr 2011 23:17:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some commentators who have opinionated about the recent murders in Afghanistan, murders supposedly committed &#8220;in response to&#8221; a US pastor&#8217;s burning a copy of the Koran, have resorted to what I ironically call &#8220;good racism&#8221;. Bad racism is what unemployed people living on council housing estates display when they blame their being unemployed on immigrants. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If You To Want See A Briton Fight, Threaten To Bring Down The Price Of Her House</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/if-you-want-to-see-a-briton-fight-threaten-to-lower-the-price-of-her-house/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/if-you-want-to-see-a-briton-fight-threaten-to-lower-the-price-of-her-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rory Sutherland&#8217;s wiki man column in The Spectator is one of the few things remaining inside that magazine that might yet tempt me to buy another print copy. In his latest he sticks a finger through one of the biggest holes in the Tories&#8217; buckshot &#8220;Big Society&#8221; balloon of&#160;bullshit: In one sense, it seems, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;&#8230;the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/the-most-inalienable-and-sacred-of-all-human-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/the-most-inalienable-and-sacred-of-all-human-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 10:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am against bans on the wearing of the burqa or niqab in public1 therefore I am going to recommend that you read the best article I have read in favour of such&#160;bans: The argument that the garment is not a religious obligation under Islam is well-founded but irrelevant; millions of Muslims the world around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moral Philosophers Of Our Time</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/moral-philosophers-of-our-time/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/moral-philosophers-of-our-time/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:07:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Charles&#160;Alexander: The former partner of killer gunman Raoul Moat was yesterday blamed for the death of an innocent man and the maiming of a police&#160;officer. The deranged bodybuilder&#8217;s uncle Charles Alexander claims Samantha Stobbart also has the blood of her ex-lover on her&#160;hands. The 72-year-old former soldier launched a astonishing tirade of abuse at 22-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Aimless Hostility&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/aimless-hostility/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/aimless-hostility/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=4866</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, John Gray reviewed A C Grayling&#8217;s latest book Ideas that Matter: The Concepts that Shape the 21st Century. To my surprise, someone I know linked to the review approvingly. I was surprised because the review is tosh: hysterical, pompous, and so self-fiskingly stupid that it&#8217;s not even necessary to read the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Atheist Taliban Exposed By Daily Mail</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/atheist-taleban-exposed-by-daily-mail/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/03/atheist-taleban-exposed-by-daily-mail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline above is a lie, as is almost everything in an article in The Daily Mail, fisked here by the British Humanist&#160;Association. [via wongaBlog]]]></description>
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		<title>Яolcats</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/02/%d1%8folcats/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:31:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Ben Goldacre, &#8220;English Translations of Eastern Bloc&#160;Lolcats&#8221;.]]></description>
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		<title>Happy (western, heliocentric) New Year!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/happy-western-heliocentric-new-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2009/01/happy-western-heliocentric-new-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope that, wherever you are, you enjoyed the extra second imposed upon you by the imperialist forces of the dominant scientific-capitalist worldview and that you have a prosperous&#160;2009. As for my year so far, I jogged wearily to the gym this morning, dreading the crowds of resolutioners (though it hasn&#8217;t been too bad in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not the despair; I can cope with the despair. It&#8217;s the hope I can&#8217;t stand.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/its-not-the-despair-i-can-cope-with-the-despair-its-the-hope-i-cant-stand/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/12/its-not-the-despair-i-can-cope-with-the-despair-its-the-hope-i-cant-stand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cornershop Man watches every single cricket international he can on his satellite TV under the counter&#8212;and, unlike me, he fails the Tebbit test. At the start of the week, I asked him: &#8220;Suppose you&#8217;re looking forward to whupping England&#8217;s backsides?&#8221; &#8220;Hmm,&#8221; he inhaled, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know. You&#8217;ve got some good bowlers with you. You could [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Search Engine For Labels For Mental Objects</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/a-search-engine-for-labels-for-mental-objects/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/10/a-search-engine-for-labels-for-mental-objects/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you can&#8217;t look up something in a dictionary because you don&#8217;t know what you&#8217;re looking for, even the wordy vastness of the Web is of limited use. This happens to me often (and that&#8217;s one of the reasons why I am not a linguistic determinist). Tip Of My Tongue might help&#160;though. [via&#160;Lifehacker]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Let Them Eat Smoke!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/07/let-them-eat-smoke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Norm asks two questions: People on the wrong end of social and economic inequalities don&#8217;t just experience health disadvantages from smoking, but disadvantages across the board - in every area of health, in life expectancy, in the pattern of life chances in general. Shall we impose compulsory legal norms about diet, about exercise, about whatever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jonathan Derbyshire</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/jonathan-derbyshire/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/05/jonathan-derbyshire/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 11:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve converted the archives of Jonathan Derbyshire&#8217;s old Typepad blog and built a new WordPress site for him at jonathanderbyshire.com. Update your bookmarks and blogrolls accordingly. (You can email him at that new domain as&#160;well.)]]></description>
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		<title>British Tin Foil Hats For British Tin Foil Hat Wearers</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/british-tin-foil-hats-for-british-tin-foil-hat-wearers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/03/british-tin-foil-hats-for-british-tin-foil-hat-wearers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The best way to reveal the true political colours of a bloggertarian is to call his bluff: there&#8217;s usually a good old-fashioned red-faced colonel underneath the shiny modern exterior. Right Next Time nails the UK Libertarian Party: all liberty, all the time, for all of the people&#8212;except for Johnny&#160;Foreigner.]]></description>
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		<title>The Irreligious Policemen</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/the-irreligious-policemen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Aug 2007 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not having a telly, I didn&#8217;t catch the latest from Richard Dawkins, but when I visited his Website to look for clips, I saw this photo of&#160;him: All I could think of was Michael Mann directing Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens in an atheist&#160;actioner: [A convertible Ferrari screams through downtown in slow motion, reflections of streetlights [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pestiferous Rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/pestiferous-rhetoric/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/08/pestiferous-rhetoric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[R C Metcalf, PhD, knows the erotic power of a polysyllabic adverb and harnesses it to denounce the &#8220;diversionary tactics&#8221; of public unbelievers, and to, er, divert their attentions to those damned&#160;Muslims: The new atheists are a tumescent bunch, unquestionably articulate, yet consummately misguided. Their incendiary rhetoric can&#8217;t help but stir the emotions of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dialectical Minimalism</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/dialectical-minimalism/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/dialectical-minimalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Damian: [T]he impression I get is that Norm is more forgiving of Eagleton&#8217;s errors of reasoning than he should&#160;be Norm: Damian leaves an impression about my viewpoints that I feel I have a right to comment&#160;on. Damian: I&#8217;d happily place a bet with Norm on which of the two of them will be considered worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>World Of Wonga</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/world-of-wonga/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/07/world-of-wonga/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 10:38:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I caught up with wongaBlog this morning. I enjoyed this post about Jonathan Edwards&#8217; reflections on his conversion from Christianity to atheism. It&#8217;s all downhill from here, Jonathan. Believers might be wrong, but believing often makes for happier and more successful people; and I enjoyed this marvellous rant about anti speed camera campaigners. My apologies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philosophers: 2 &#8212; Scientists: 0</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/philosophers-2-scientists-0/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/philosophers-2-scientists-0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday I found myself stuck in a room in a Cambridge college waiting to do a photo job so I took Ludwig Wittgenstein&#8217;s Philosophical Investigations down from a shelf and, as an intellectual dwarf perched on Hindsight the Giant, sneered at it. Certain things he said appear absurd in the light of certain experimental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harsh Truth</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/the-harsh-truth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hot Wheels Helena is back from Glastonbury with a message for post-modernists, fundamentalists, and plain mentalists everywhere: More info&#160;here. [Thanks to Caroline for the&#160;pic.]]]></description>
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		<title>Totalitarian Political Nanny Statism Gone Mad</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/06/totalitarian-political-nanny-statism-gone-mad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:16:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Samizdata, California is becoming a &#8220;totalitarian&#8221; state because an overwhelming majority of the residents of the city of Berkeley voted for comprehensive regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and because San Francisco can fine pet owners who don&#8217;t feed their pets properly and fortune-tellers who don&#8217;t have a licence to practise. Britain is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lefties Sell Out</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/05/lefties-sell-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 00:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to everyone who spoke at, helped with, and attended the Euston Manifesto Conference yesterday. Every seat was taken and then some. It was a superb meeting with some of the most interesting and thoughtful lectures I&#8217;ve heard in years&#8212;and that includes the stuff I thought was wrong. One of the best things about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hamiltonian Flow</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/hamiltonian-flow/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/hamiltonian-flow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Hamilton&#8217;s blogging has been particularly good lately, ranging from the Devil&#8217;s Chaplain to the Devil&#8217;s Kitchen. I recommend his excellent posts about Richard Dawkins&#8212;oldie and goodie&#8212;and his fine, if less taxing, fisking of the most superfluous blog in existence not written by someone called Brittany: hoisting out the middle wicket and scooping up an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leggo!</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/leggo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:33:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via things magazine, I discovered an article in the Archinect about how when the people of the virtual community Second Life are given freedom to build whatever they want they recreate suburbia.The author of the piece broadcasts his own prejudices. I hate shopping as well, but I winced at this: [L]ike most utopias, [Second Life] [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kant, Not Puccini</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/kant-not-puccini/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 21:51:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can download a series of Glasgow University lectures about Kant on&#160;MP3.]]></description>
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		<title>Needle</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/needle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:15:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I used to work for the Medical Research Council, I did my best not to bore people with it on this site. I took up the name &#8220;PooterGeek&#8221;&#8212;ironically, the suggestion of a summer student&#8212;so that when people searched for my name on the Web they would find biomedical publications to download rather than movie&#160;parodies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Doing Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/doing-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2007 15:22:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friends have told me that my obsession with freewill and my belief that there is such a thing as evil are products of my Catholic upbringing. They are, in fact, products of personal experience and of a long, dull training in human biology. I know people who simply do not believe in evil. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Weekend Trip To The Recycling Centre</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/a-weekend-trip-to-the-recycling-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/01/a-weekend-trip-to-the-recycling-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Jan 2007 20:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m busy so, instead of writing my own stuff, I&#8217;ll just point at the efforts of some other&#160;bloggers. This at Fisking Central is a point worth making over and over&#160;again: Utopia doesn&#8217;t refer to a better world; it&#8217;s used to describe a perfect&#160;world. Belief in human perfectability&#8212;and its accompanying rejection of all that is imperfect&#8212;is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Logic Of My Life</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/the-logic-of-my-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Dec 2006 11:23:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[stolen from here]]]></description>
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		<title>Clear Blue Water</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/clear-blue-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:19:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[First there was my shaking hands with Thatch. Then there were the disagreements about common ownership of the means of production. Now I&#8217;ve been linked by the Adam Smith Institute&#8217;s blog. My dad&#8217;s never going to talk to me&#160;again.]]></description>
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		<title>Registering Complaints</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/registering-complaints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:30:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hadn&#8217;t noticed this until I read Tom Hamilton&#8217;s post at Let&#8217;s Be Sensible, but the Devil&#8217;s Kitchen calls the Mr Eugenides essay that I blogged about &#8220;one of the finest posts ever written&#8221;. Does Eton College do&#160;refunds? Also, having read the latest post at Never Trust A Hippy, I must revise my slur on [...]]]></description>
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