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	<title>Epsilon Clue</title>
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	<description>All the etcetera that's fit to read.</description>
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		<title>The Good Shepherd</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing that&#8217;s always bugged me with the
&#8220;good shepherd&#8221;
metaphor is that while a good (or at least competent) shepherd will
protect sheep from predators, disease, weather, etc., he does so
mainly because he doesn&#8217;t want wolves to eat his sheep before he gets
a chance to turn them in to lamb chops himself.

Of course, that&#8217;s probably not something [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/07/03/the-good-shepherd/</link>
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		<title>Different Stylesheets for Browsers With and Without JavaScript</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As hacks go, this one is pretty obvious, but I thought I&#8217;d throw it
out there anyway.

Let&#8217;s say there are three stylesheets you want to use on your web
page: one for all browsers (style.css), one for browsers with
JavaScript enabled (style-js.css), one for browsers without
JavaScript (style-nojs.css). This can be useful for things
like &#8220;display the fancy drop-down menu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/07/01/different-stylesheets-for-browsers-with-and-without-javascript/</link>
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		<title>The Comedy Just Writes Itself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Republicans (natch) have introduced yet another &#8220;Defense&#8221; of Marriage amendment bill.

It&#8217;s co-sponsored by Larry &#8220;Wide Stance&#8221; Craig and David &#8220;Diaperman&#8221; Vitter.

This has got to be a joke. No one can be that irony-blind.
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		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/28/the-comedy-just-writes-itself/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Pissing Me Off Today?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At a time when I, like a lot of the country, was starting to suffer
from
outrage fatigue,
it seems that today brought a higher-than-usual number of news stories
in the &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to be fucking kidding me&#8221; department.

One of Erik Prince&#8217;s companies (no, not Blackwater; another one)
invokes Shari&#8217;a law when it&#8217;s convenient:

RALEIGH - To defend itself against a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/27/whats-pissing-me-off-today/</link>
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		<title>Dembski on Animal Rights</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports
that Spain is expected to pass a law granting rights to non-human apes:

MADRID (Reuters) - Spain&#8217;s parliament voiced its support
on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what
will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called
for such rights for non-humans.

Dembski&#8217;s
reaction:

Here is one consequence of evolution being used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/27/dembski-on-animal-rights/</link>
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		<title>RIP George Carlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just heard that George Carlin died on Sunday.

Well, shit.

Fuck.

Piss, cunt, motherfucker, cocksucker.

Tits.

I first ran into his Seven Words You Can Never Say on TV when I was, oh, twelve or thirteen. At the time, I thought it was the funniest thing ever.

Later, I decided it wasn&#8217;t actually all that funny; that the humor came [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/23/rip-george-carlin/</link>
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		<title>Sufficiently Advanced Technology: the Gathering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can do magic. I don&#8217;t mean the card trick kind; I mean real magic.

I can hear dead people (I have on my iPod a wax-cylinder recording of a letter that Sir Arthur Sullivan sent to Thomas Edison, both of whom are dead).

Whenever a relative of mine is ill or has an accident, I know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/18/sufficiently-advanced-technology-the-gathering/</link>
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		<title>Magical Eau de Pape (or: Habemus Odoris)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greta Christina has scooped me, saying what I wanted to say, but making it sound purty. It concerns a testimonial for The Pope&#8217;s Cologne (a cologne supposedly made from a recipe that Pius  IX enjoyed, or some such):

A few minutes before the brunch ended we got the bad news that a friend of my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/18/magical-eau-de-pape-or-habemus-odoris/</link>
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		<title>How Could Anyone Possibly Think ID Is Religion?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The &#8220;Editorial Review&#8221; of Bill Dembski&#8217;s new book says that it&#8217;s aimed at

readers whose understanding may have been confused by educational bias and onesided arguments and attacks.

In case you were wondering who exactly these readers might be, Billy clarifies:

[The book] is geared specifically at mobilizing Christian young people, homeschoolers, and church youth groups with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/16/how-could-anyone-possibly-think-id-is-religion/</link>
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		<title>No Point in Gitmo Anymore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports:

Foreign suspects held in Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in US civilian courts, the US Supreme Court has ruled. [&#8230;]
The Military Commissions Act (MCA) passed in 2006 removed the right of habeas corpus and set up tribunals to try detainees who were not US citizens.

This is, of course, excellent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2008/06/12/no-point-in-gitmo-anymore/</link>
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