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		<title>Book 209: On Writing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia I have to say that I am a huge fan of The Stand, but I haven&#8217;t really been that gripped by anything else Stephen King has produced, although other people obviously have. So when Vicki recommended this book, I can&#8217;t say that I was champing at the bit to read it. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use It Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia A few months ago, a strap on my favourite pair of sandals gave out, rendering them totally useless. I promptly brought the shoe to Makela&#8217;s, and the woman behind the counter seemed confident that it was fixable, so I left the shoe with her, and a few days later she called, and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tinkling Palms</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia A photographer with the Times got a rare glimpse into the lives of FLDS members, especially young women. The result is an interesting article and a photo set which I personally find fascinating; it&#8217;s like a look into a totally alien and hidden world.
Unidentified human remains and efforts to reunite them with surviving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book 208: The Power of the Dog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia Have you ever read a book which sort of sneaks inside your mind and stays there, in a subtle way that makes you want to wheel around and say &#8220;hey now,&#8221; but you get the sense that if you do, the book&#8217;s elusive power will have vanished? That&#8217;s kind of how I felt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enough</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia 
With the broken trees, already, people! I like trees. Trees are pretty, and trees are neat. While I hate what they are doing to downtown, the solution is not the mutilation of the trees. What did the trees ever do to you, for Pete&#8217;s sake?!
(Sorry about the poor image quality; that&#8217;s my cellphone, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prison and the First Amendment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia Trolling the Press Democrat the other day for scraps of news of interest, I noticed the headline &#8220;Outrage over prisoners&#8217; right to blog,&#8221; and while it took me a few days, I did eventually click on it to find out what the deal was. And the deal is, pretty much, exactly what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crackling Whiskers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia Barbara Ehrenreich is never one to back down from a fight, and this interview with her in the Guardian is awesome. If you haven&#8217;t read her searing exposes of the American wealth gap, you should, because they are extremely good, and they handily defeat the claim that this is a classless society.
Carbon offsets: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tick Tock</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day, doomed to repeat itself in an endless circle. Ouroboros, omphalos, the water falls behind, the water falls before. Tick tock says the clock, tick tick tick, counting down the seconds, counting down the days. Time becomes a loop, loop becomes a time, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Veterans and the Vote</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia So I was listening to NPR the other day, peacefully minding my own business and making some pancakes, when a story about the Veterans Administration came on the air, and I perked up my ears, because I am interested in veterans&#8217; issues. (In case you&#8217;re wondering, it really is &#8220;Veterans Administration,&#8221; with no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Smoky Telephones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[copyright meloukhia Tattooing in Hawaii is a tradition rich with generations of history, so it was neat to see this article talking about the culture and history of Hawaiian tattooing. It&#8217;s nice to know that there are some parts of the world where tattooing hasn&#8217;t turned into a hipster cliche.
A train operator wrote about his [...]]]></description>
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