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		<title>Talking Of Bathos&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/09/talking-of-bathos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:50:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The front page of the BBC News Website is currently decorated by the headline: JUDE LAW CALLS FOR WORLD&#160;CEASEFIRE]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Talk About Something Else Now?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/can-we-talk-about-something-else-now/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2008/02/can-we-talk-about-something-else-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 10:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middle-Aged Man Confused By iPod]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Islam isn&#8217;t a race. Martin Amis isn&#8217;t a racist. This video is&#160;fun: [via The Ambrosini&#160;Critique]]]></description>
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		<title>Oxfam Report Supports UK Humanitarian Intervention</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/oxfam-report-supports-uk-humanitarian-intervention/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2007/04/oxfam-report-supports-uk-humanitarian-intervention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a&#160;surprise: The UK must not shy away from trying to resolve international crises despite the &#8220;terrible misadventure&#8221; in Iraq, a report from charity Oxfam&#160;argues.]]></description>
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		<title>In With A Bullet</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/in-with-a-bullet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/12/in-with-a-bullet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:25:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Magazines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the latest edition of your super soaraway Foreign Policy there is, shockingly, a year&#8217;s-end top ten. Those crazy dudes at FP&#8212;bringing you close-up views of the hottest international relations&#8212;have collected the most significant &#8220;Stories You Missed in 2006&#8221; and they are grimly interesting, including for example India helping Iran to build the bomb and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The History Of The Future Past</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/the-history-of-the-future-past/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/11/the-history-of-the-future-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Nov 2006 09:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at these fascinating slides of a 1959 lecture made about plans for the moon&#160;landings.]]></description>
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		<title>Tilting At Bots</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/tilting-at-bots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/10/tilting-at-bots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that quite a few people have, like me, recently had someone going by the name of &#8220;cell-phone-accessory&#8221; drop by and leave a comment on their blogs. The comment is a rambling rant about terrorism. Its content is similar to that of an Independent opinion piece, though the spelling and grammar are poorer. Gloria [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Satisfying Sound Of Leather Hitting Trouser</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/the-satisfying-sound-of-leather-hitting-trouser/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/the-satisfying-sound-of-leather-hitting-trouser/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:57:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you&#8217;d expect from an embittered wannabe academic like me, I enjoy immensely reading reviews in which genuine scholars demolish the latest fashionable nonsense published by trend-chasing academic&#160;presses. Here Ben Goldacre casually and rightly puts the boot into an absurd attack on evidence-based medicine&#8212;it&#8217;s &#8220;fascist&#8221;&#160;apparently. Here Shalom Lappin does a grand and rigorous job on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Admirable; Futile</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/admirable-futile/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/09/admirable-futile/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2006 16:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like a man trying to teach calculus to a hamster, Anthony &#8220;Black Triangle&#8221; Cox attempts to apply logic to the content of a front page of The Independent. For some reason I am reminded of Norm&#8217;s continuing struggles with The&#160;Guardian.]]></description>
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		<title>The Future Of Darfur And The Future Of The Left</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/the-future-of-darfur-and-the-future-of-the-left/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/the-future-of-darfur-and-the-future-of-the-left/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 07:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because of a couple of gremlins over at the Euston Manifesto site we&#8217;ve accidentally been turning people away from applying for tickets to our meeting next Tuesday evening in London. It&#8217;s free and there will be three speakers on the subject: &#8220;Darfur: An Urgent Case for Humanitarian Intervention&#8221;. Follow the link to email us for&#160;tickets. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop The War(monger Bush And His Poodle Blair)</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/stop-the-warmonger-bush-and-his-poodle-blair/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/08/stop-the-warmonger-bush-and-his-poodle-blair/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you know I&#8217;ve been busy, so I&#8217;ve only just noticed via Jo Salmon that someone has found an honest STWC/CND&#160;flyer.]]></description>
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		<title>Bush And Blair Burn Up The Mic [Uncut]</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/bush-and-blair-burn-up-the-mic-uncut/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/07/bush-and-blair-burn-up-the-mic-uncut/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Normblog I read the Times&#8217; transcript of an accidentally broadcast conversation between George W. Bush and Tony Blair at the G8 summit. By downloading the original recording and processing it with various digital sound programs I have been able to reconstruct the inaudible parts of the exchange. Here I present the full transcript, with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By The Way</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/04/by-the-way/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/04/by-the-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you to Pete in the comments and to everyone else who&#8217;s been sending kind wishes. It&#8217;s good to be alive on days like these. I hope eventually everyone will be just as free to say in public how they think we should live in the world we share. It&#8217;s a precious gift and one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Lesson In The Importance Of Sentence Construction</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/the-importance-of-sentence-construction/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/the-importance-of-sentence-construction/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2006 08:04:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Instapundit I came upon this unfortunate opening to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram report on the release of Abdul Rahaman: KABUL, Afghanistan&#8212;An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence and he will be released soon, officials&#160;said. Let&#8217;s hope the Star-Telegram&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Top Post By A Top Bloke</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/a-top-post-by-a-top-bloke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/a-top-post-by-a-top-bloke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2094</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For a while I wondered if she was a parody, so broken and infantile and hackneyed were her arguments. Now I only ever read her when someone writes about her. Madeleine Bunting&#8217;s intellectual and moral development has been so corrupted by the ideological diseases of our time that she is hardly qualified to read out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sky-Fairies Continue To Advise Leaders Of Free World</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/sky-fairies-continue-to-advise-leaders-of-free-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/sky-fairies-continue-to-advise-leaders-of-free-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Mar 2006 09:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was about nine years old I told a bunch of advancing micro-racists that I wasn&#8217;t scared of them because &#8220;Jesus was on my side&#8221;. That the Son of God was shamefully absent throughout my subsequent twatting should have been a lesson to me then, but it was a few more years before I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fatuous Bint</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/fatuous-bint/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/03/fatuous-bint/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 23:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=2068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers here know that I had little time for the argument that &#8220;we&#8221; had to invade Iraq because Saddam Hussein had a strategic arsenal trained on Hoxton hidden under his various country homes. It&#8217;s been said that I&#8217;ve been quite rude about people who signed up too confidently for certain types of WMD-related bollocks, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breakdown Of Diplomacy</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/02/diplomatic-breakdown/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/02/diplomatic-breakdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I&#8217;m on the subject, during much of my youth, lazy, stupid, ungrateful, talentless, illiterate, violent, and very very ugly white people would daily tell me to fuck off &#8220;back home&#8221;. They were wrong to do so. They would, however, be right to tell the sorts of lazy, stupid, etc brown people who wave banners [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring A Stamping Child</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/ignoring-a-stamping-child/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/ignoring-a-stamping-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2006 22:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t agree with a lot of what she says, but I think Mary Madigan at Exit Zero has a very interesting angle on&#160;Iran: What should we do about Iran? We should do&#160;nothing. Seriously. When a belligerent little foaming-at-the-mouth nation shouts about nukes, they expect us to pay attention to them. This encourages other belligerent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>And Next Year&#8217;s Nobel Peace Prize Goes To&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/and-next-years-nobel-peace-prize-goes-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2006/01/and-next-years-nobel-peace-prize-goes-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2006 01:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some misquotes are more serious than&#160;others. [thanks to&#160;Claire]]]></description>
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		<title>Fobbing Off The Punters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/fobbing-off-the-punters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eh! Eh! Calm down! Yes, I parenthetically threatened to kick Harold Pinter&#8217;s hospital bed for his drivelling on about the US foreign policy, but I have a lot to do right now. If I do put the boot in it won&#8217;t be before the weekend because I need a nice unbroken slot of time to [...]]]></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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1890</guid>
		<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>Final Revisions</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/12/final-revisions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2005 09:04:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s serious press carried near-full-page advertisements for Channel 4&#8217;s new substation &#8220;More4&#8220;&#8216;s screening of Downfall, Oliver Hirschbiegel&#8217;s acclaimed cinematic imagining of the last moments of former German head of state Adolf Hitler. These advertisements read: &#8220;It&#8217;s a happy ending. He&#160;dies.&#8221; But just how happy an ending was it for the once-proud nation that was Germany, [...]]]></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>That Angela Merkel Speech In Voll</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/that-angela-merkel-speech-in-voll/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/that-angela-merkel-speech-in-voll/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2005 15:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Guten Morgen, meine Damen und Herren, Herr Prime Minister, Frau Blair, Herr Straw, Brenda, und so weiter. Vielen Dank fur den Freiheit, ihre grossen Europaischen subsidiese zum Integraztion wir lumpen Ossis, und den neuen Robbie Williams Album&#8212;mit his dimplich Grin, er ist viel sexyer als David&#160;Hasselhof. Wir, die Britischen and die Deutschen, sind sinze der [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Easy, Tiger</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/easy-tiger/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/easy-tiger/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2005 16:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the extracts from novelist John Fowles&#8217; diaries in the Guardian today neatly sums up the attitude of a certain kind of educated observer to the War On Terror: Rushdie fuss. Eliz in a paranoiac state, that I might support him. This is a clear moral choice. From what I have heard of him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Root Causes</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/11/root-causes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 10:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think the riots in France are a protest by disenfranchised Muslim youth against that country&#8217;s involvement in the disastrous imperialist adventure in&#160;Iraq.]]></description>
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		<title>Or You Could Go To The Tate And Look At The Boxes</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/10/or-you-could-go-to-the-tate-and-look-at-the-boxes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/10/or-you-could-go-to-the-tate-and-look-at-the-boxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=1826</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I could have chosen one of hundreds of quotes from various Whedon interviews over the years to set this brief (and somewhat random) rant off, but this is particularly apt: &#8220;I love genre. I love fantasy. I love science fiction. I love horror. I love musicals. I love finding a different way to express what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recycling In London</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/recycling-in-london/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:24:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[He&#8217;s a slippery git, but Judy has her eye on&#160;him.]]></description>
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		<title>Says It All</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/09/says-it-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2005 21:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who Knew? has a telling post. Imagine: you have invested your life savings in a multinational corporation, who would you choose to run, respectively, its US and UK arms: Bill Clinton and Tony Blair or George W Bush and John Major? Whatever happened to the Right&#8217;s ability just to manage serious stuff&#160;competently?]]></description>
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		<title>Walken For President</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2005/08/1701/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:50:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AYATOLLAH KHAMENEI is man-handled into his office. Waiting for him are four associates, standing: CONDOLEEZZA, RUMSFELD (an old Wise-guy), VICE-PRESIDENT SCHWARZENEGGER, and BRITISH PRIME MINISTER BOB HOSKINS (a fireplug pitbull&#160;type). PRESIDENT WALKEN sits in KHAMENEI&#8217;s&#160;recliner KHAMENEI is knocked to his knees. He looks up to see a smiling WALKEN. They pick him up and roughly [...]]]></description>
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