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		<title>Beatles and Blasphemy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 21:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s funny what you remember decades after a memorable news event. Consider the intense controversy over John Lennon&#8217;s claim in 1966 that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. Futility Closet sent me back to that time with one its &#8220;miscellany of compendius amusements.&#8221; Christian groups from Southern Baptists to the Vatican went nuts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Space between life and death</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Iraq war]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d been told that an acquaintance&#8217;s son had arrived home safe from Iraq, his first overseas Army stint. When I asked the acquaintance today about his son&#8217;s experience, he filled in the story with details, details that remind me of what we all know but rarely ponder: inches and seconds often add up to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond the void</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:36:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thinking about the universe is like staring at the sun. One has to quickly turn away from the incomprehensible vastness; the combined sensations of insignificance and loneliness are too much to bear. Oddly, this video graphically illustrating the vastness makes it less painful to contemplate. But the 3-D effect of drifting past uncountable galaxies is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hiding in Plain Sight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After closely following the mainstream mediaâ€™s superficial coverage of the presidential campaign, Iâ€™m not surprised that much in Rolling Stoneâ€™sÂ damning new portrayal of John McCainâ€™s life and career isnâ€™t widely known. The piece feels like a hatchet job but only because the sheer volume of negative information is so shocking. Iâ€™ve read some of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How not to solicit political contributions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For about the tenth time in a week, I&#8217;ve been hit up for money by the Democratic National Committee. Solitictors call me on the phone, send me emails, corner me outside the grocery &#8212; you name it. This evening, a nice but persistent young woman came to my door to ask again. When I told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye sun, hello world</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[sunsets]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Easily distracted, I am. Especially when I find a web site based on an idea brilliant in its simplicity and stunning in its execution. Welcome to Constant Setting, featuring a single photograph taken in a place where the sun is setting at the moment you view it. (As I write, the fiery sky of Bora-Bora [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Following the boy sailor</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 06:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not often do I read about a sixteen-year-old boy and immediately wonder what he will do doing thirty years hence. I hope I&#8217;m around long enough to see how life unfolds for Zac Sunderland, who&#8217;s attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. Zac&#8217;s departure two months ago from Marina del [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Punctuation for the dead</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 06:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ironic futility]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Some news stories I can&#8217;t get out of my head. They keep reverberating with questions. Take the post-mortem wishes of two men, one an astronaut wanting to return to space, the other an actor astronaut wanting to go there for the first time. Gordon Cooper, who orbited the Earth alone twenty-two times in 1963 aboard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One word, many meanings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 05:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When I spotted this trash can with a message today on Northeast 28th and Couch, I immediately thought of its broad theme: Portland&#8217;s intense recycling and reuse ethos. Now I realize it might be a so-obvious-it&#8217;s-subtle hint: look inside, stupid, and get rich. Or maybe part of a treasure map, and the long shadow points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature in the city</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goldfish pond]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[linden tree]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tufts of white fluff drift over my goldfish pond, on the way somewhere. Escapees from a cottonwood tree perhaps, fanning out on this cloudless and cool Portland morning. Another pastoral moment deep in the city. From my neighbors&#8217; century-old linden tree comes an incessant chirp. Beneath the shroud of limbs, I can&#8217;t see the bird [...]]]></description>
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