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		<title>Moving Day</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flannery O&#8217;Connor didn&#8217;t live a flashy life &#8211; &#8220;from Georgia, liked birds, died of lupus&#8221; &#8211; says Jamelah Earle, who might not recommend Brad Gooch&#8217;s biography to you, unless you want to know how somebody comes up with a story &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/titans/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=850&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Languages of Unrest</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For a couple of months I&#8217;ve been trying to get a handle on a wispy problem that seems to be clouding debates about the current economic crisis.  Something feels deeply wrong about how these discussions function as discussions, and I&#8217;ve &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/the-two-languages-of-unrest/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=834&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>C Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is my 100th post, folks. Huzzah! Writing duckanddrakes has been a rewarding pastime over the last year.  During the next few weeks, I&#8217;ll be giving some thought to this blog and its future. For the time being, here&#8217;s &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/c-notes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=821&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Through The Cracks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From argle-bargle to snollygoster: are these the 100 funniest words in English? On this day in 1970, James Dickey published Deliverance.  His son Christopher recalls: &#8220;it seemed to me then and for a long time afterward that forces of self-indulgence &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/through-the-cracks/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=812&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Churston Ferrers</title>
		<link>http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/churston-ferrers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More handwriting: a gracious note from novelist Agatha Christie to filmmaker Billy Wilder. Christie praises Wilder&#8217;s successful adaptation of Christie&#8217;s Witness for the Prosecution, probably the strongest film version of her work that we&#8217;ll ever see. You can buy the &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/26/churston-ferrers/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=803&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crystal Clear</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can find a new article extolling the value of the humanities just about every day of the week.  Scroll down on this very site, stranger, and you&#8217;ll find a pile of links to such articles, many of which I&#8217;ve &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/crystal-clear/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=763&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Inside Higher Ed, Chad Aldeman explains that academic institutions just don&#8217;t have the resources to identify the most worthy student applications from within the colossal  piles that they receive. &#8220;The myth of a meritocracy, on which the selective admissions &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/application/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=753&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You!  Drop what you&#8217;re doing and read Chris Mooney&#8217;s critique of George Will&#8217;s hissy little column on &#8220;global cooling.&#8221;  Mooney&#8217;s article is everything that op-ed writing ought to be: polite, well-reasoned, utterly devastating.  I wish that all writers cared so &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/claptrap/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=731&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Silence of the Boo</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 03:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wall Street Journal theater critic Terry Teachout observes: I can&#8217;t recall ever hearing a single boo at a Broadway show, a classical concert, a dance performance or a nightclub gig. Teachout&#8217;s onto something about the way we live now &#8211; &#8230; <a href="http://ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com/2009/03/22/the-silence-of-the-boo/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ducksanddrakes.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3478398&amp;post=710&amp;subd=ducksanddrakes&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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