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		<title>Lessons For Us All</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/05/lessons-for-us-all/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 18:08:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recommend you read all of this Martin In The Margins post: Taliban tactics in Tower&#160;Hamlets: I&#8217;m not sure why I&#8217;ve been so affected by the story of Gary Smith, the east London RE teacher who was assaulted by four Islamic extremists because they disapproved of him teaching religion to Muslim girls. Perhaps it was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Four B Movies Worth Checking Out</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/05/three-b-movies-worth-checking-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 17:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A good B&#160;movie is great fun. The format is officially dead, but the label lives; and now people use it to refer to a genre film (usually horror or science fiction/fantasy) with a small promotional spend as much as they use it to describe one with a low budget. If a non-blockbuster non-cult non-art-house non-sequel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Money By Telling Women The Correct Way To Have Sex</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/making-money-by-telling-women-the-correct-way-to-have-sex/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/04/making-money-by-telling-women-the-correct-way-to-have-sex/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 17:44:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5356</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Further to my post about rescuing fallen women, the Heresiarch examines how evidence-abusing ideologues compete to cash in on&#160;prostitution.]]></description>
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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>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5279</guid>
		<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>Chuka Umunna on slavery</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/chuka-umunna-on-slavery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/chuka-umunna-on-slavery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5272</guid>
		<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>On Rescuing Fallen Women</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/03/on-rescuing-fallen-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 12:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent my first two terms at university up to my naked wrists in a woman&#8217;s corpse. This was A Good Thing For Humankind. This week, one of the top BBC News stories has been the outrage at a woman demonstrating a sex toy in front of a university psychology class. This was An Act [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socially Awkward Penguin Knows Your Pain</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/socially-awkward-penguin-knows-your-pain/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/socially-awkward-penguin-knows-your-pain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>The Alternative Vote System: So Simple That An Attempt To Write A Simple Description Of It Leads To A Complicated Debate</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/the-alternative-vote-system-so-simple-that-an-attempt-to-describe-it-simply-leads-to-a-complicated-debate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/the-alternative-vote-system-so-simple-that-an-attempt-to-describe-it-simply-leads-to-a-complicated-debate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 21:14:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5226</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Freeman questions one of the criticisms aimed against the Alternative Vote system (AV), which, in a referendum in May, citizens will be voting to adopt or reject in, er, preference to First Past The Post (FPTP) in UK elections. The criticism in question is that AV is too complicated and/or voters don&#8217;t/won&#8217;t understand how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bush Was Right</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2011/02/bush-was-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Feb 2011 11:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5211</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This would be a good day to quote and laugh at some of the many racist articles written over the past few years that warned us not to &#8220;inflame the Arab Street&#8221;, that rhetorical mass of undifferentiated savages that &#8220;we&#8221; created by interfering in the Noble Civilizations of the region with our Imperialist Adventures, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Face-Saving Exercise</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/a-face-saving-exercise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 14:46:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5190</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#160;reports: A former soldier who was jailed for refusing to fight in Afghanistan has handed back a medal in protest at Britain&#8217;s involvement in the&#160;war. &#8220;There&#8217;s a real up-swell of awareness now among military families and among the military, and among the people in this country, that this conflict is, has kind of turned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross In Box</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/cross-in-box/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/cross-in-box/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Continuing the theme of suffrage, if you were unfortunate (and nerdy) enough to listen to Today In Parliament yesterday evening, you will have been treated to our law-makers displaying the sort of ignorance of the basics of the law and of European institutions that makes you embarrassed to be a British citizen as they debated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Not Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/the-not-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/the-not-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:45:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The always-interesting marketing guru Seth Godin wisely alerts citizens of democracies who fail to exercise their franchise because they claim to hate politicians to an important fact they have probably overlooked: many politicians want them not to&#160;vote: Political TV advertising is designed to do only one thing: suppress the turnout of the opponent&#8217;s supporters. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting The Good Fight</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/fighting-the-good-fight/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/11/fighting-the-good-fight/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:15:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Spam&#8212;email spam, link spam, splogs, social media spam&#8212;is evil. I waste too much of my time dealing with it. It was inevitable that this Wired article about a new search engine would intrigue&#160;me: [T]here&#8217;s a new search engine in town that&#8217;s got a fresh approach to weed out the ever-proliferating junk and spam sites polluting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bhangra Nights</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/bhangra-nights/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/bhangra-nights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right now, I am banging my head like Flat Eric to this. The intro rambles on a bit then it all kicks off in a diversity-tastic&#160;way: Bhangra Nights - Husan 2010 (Tom Pritchard Remix) by Tom&#160;Pritchard]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s Mad?</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/whos-mad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/whos-mad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2010 16:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5149</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Martin In The Margins makes an important criticism of an otherwise mostly admirable and well-intentioned&#160;enterprise: As for that plea for a focus on &#8216;tolerance&#8217;, it would have helped if the rally organisers hadn&#8217;t included a performer who has expressed the most outrageously intolerant opinions. Appearing onstage in the National Mall was Yusuf Islam, the singer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;It&#8217;s not his fault, miss; he&#8217;s Anger Management.&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/its-not-his-fault-hes-anger-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/10/its-not-his-fault-hes-anger-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5131</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People will focus on what Katharine Birbalsingh said about the failure of this country&#8217;s educational establishment to serve poor black boys, but the bigger disaster, in simple numbers, is its failure to serve working-class&#160;whites. Pseudoscience, whether it&#8217;s Marxism or eugenics or anti-vaccine hysteria or educationalist psychobabble, is often characterized by rich people making money by [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pootergeek.com/?p=5111</guid>
		<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>Bieber-eautiful</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/bieber-eautiful/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/bieber-eautiful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 22:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[16-year-old Justin Bieber is the pop new sensation with pre-teens. [High Court Judge] I have yet to have the pleasure of hearing one of his musical performances [/High Court Judge], but I have heard&#160;this: J. BIEBZ - U SMILE 800% SLOWER by&#160;Shamantis which is one of his recordings slowed down 800% and pitch-shifted back to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Typo Hunt</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/the-great-typo-hunt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/the-great-typo-hunt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Incensed by a &#8220;no tresspassing&#8221; sign, Jeff Deck launched a cross-country trip to right grammatical&#160;wrongs. He enlisted a friend, Benjamin D. Herson, and together they got to work erasing errant quotation marks, rectifying misspellings and cutting unnecessary possessive&#160;apostrophes. The Great Typo Hunt is the story of their&#160;crusade.]]></description>
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		<title>Support World-Class UK Research Universities</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/support-world-class-british-research-universities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Which of this month&#8217;s begging letters from my almae matres more rapidly and effectively earned its place in my&#160;bin? Was it the one from Oxford University that&#160;began: Dear Mr&#160;Counsell Today the defining struggle in the world is between relentless growth and the potential for&#160;collaboration. which, if it means anything at all, is&#160;cobblers? Or was it [...]]]></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>
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		<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>What Hamas Gets Up To When No One (Here) Is Looking</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/what-hamas-gets-up-to-when-no-one-here-is-looking/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/what-hamas-gets-up-to-when-no-one-here-is-looking/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at Ricochet, Judith Levy illustrates her commentary on the state of the &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; with a picture of the effects of another rocket attack from Gaza on a rehabilitation centre for special needs kids in Israel two days ago. For &#8220;prison camp&#8221; guards, the Israelis are surprisingly&#160;easygoing. &#8230;the attack on Sderot took place twenty-four hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Replacing Elites</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/self-replacing-elites/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/08/self-replacing-elites/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#8217;s Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield is broadly happy with his children&#8217;s French education, but he does have one&#160;complaint: French schools have absolutely no extra-curricular&#160;activities. There are no debating societies, no orchestras, no film clubs, no sports teams, no painting classes, no school newspapers, and no drama, at least none worthy of the&#160;name. This, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assimilation</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/assimilation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Further to my most recent extended comment on That Bigoted Woman, I note The Mirror reports that Gillian Duffy, who wondered during the UK General Election where all those Eastern Europeans are flocking from, has come out in support of David Miliband for the position leader of the Labour Party. David Miliband is the offspring [...]]]></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>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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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>Imelda Got A Boom Boom</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/imelda-got-a-boom-boom/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/imelda-got-a-boom-boom/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve no strong objections to the sub-genre, but I&#8217;m certainly not a rockabilly fan; this afternoon, though, Imelda May, having been flown in specially with her band by private jet to play, impressed me on Dermot O&#8217;Leary&#8217;s BBC Radio 2 show1. Check out this video of her performing Johnny Got A Boom Boom on Later&#8230;&#160;with&#160;Jools&#160;Holland [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Darth Vader Robs Bank&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/darth-vader-robs-bank/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/darth-vader-robs-bank/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s how everyone is reporting this. But it&#8217;s clearly Chad Vader in the photos. I can only conclude that all the people with sufficient discrimination to know this are at Comic-Con&#160;2010&#8212;where, incidentally, the latest trailer for the Tron&#160;Legacy, featuring a digitally thirtysomethingified Jeff Bridges has been&#160;shown.]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Characters</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/07/tough-characters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Web time, this is an ancient (1991) essay, so I don&#8217;t feel guilty that I can&#8217;t remember who drew my attention to it today: &#8220;Why Chinese Is So Damn&#160;Hard&#8221;. Someone once said that learning Chinese is &#8220;a five-year lesson in humility&#8221;. I used to think this meant that at the end of five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Does anyone know the way, there’s got to be a way To Block Buster!”</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/05/does-anyone-know-the-way-theres-got-to-be-a-way-to-block-buster/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/05/does-anyone-know-the-way-theres-got-to-be-a-way-to-block-buster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PooterGeek</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Slate piece about Blockbuster, the movie rental chain, is fascinating; well, it&#8217;s fascinating to someone like me who thinks formats and markets and channels and digital data and movies are interesting in themselves. Stir them all together&#160;and&#8230; In 2005, Greg Meyer wrote a letter to the management of Blockbuster. He wanted to warn the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lost Appeal</title>
		<link>http://www.pootergeek.com/2010/04/lost-appeal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Apr 2010 23:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC&#160;reports: A relationship counsellor who refused to offer sex therapy to gay couples has lost his unfair dismissal&#160;appeal. Gary MacFarlane, 47, from Bristol, was sacked by marriage guidance service Relate after he said he could not do anything to promote gay&#160;sex. He alleged Relate had refused to accommodate his Christian&#160;beliefs. The service&#8217;s chief executive [...]]]></description>
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