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	<description>Patiently boring since 2001 . . . .</description>
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		<title>Advice from an Unlikely Source</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This passage made me think of James Bowman, particularly his latest diary entry. The problem seems quite contemporary, particularly the pairing of "ministries and newspapers", though the proposed solution must have looked archaic even fifty years ago. How many people had a riding-crop handy when they needed one even in England in 1958?
It may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=394</link>
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		<title>How Presumptuous Can You Get?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As Marc Ambinder and others have reported, "Obama Team Begins Work On Presidential Transition". No one seems to have noticed that Obama is not only not president yet, he's not even officially the Democratic nominee, which makes this doubly presumptuous. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=393</link>
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		<title>General Tso&#8217;s Chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least that's what some of the other generals say. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=392</link>
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		<title>Quantum Mutati ab Illis</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Where is he from?"
Bracoletti answered without hesitation, lowering his voice, and with a gesture indicating the most complete disenchantment:
"He is a Greek from Athens."
My interest sank like water absorbed by sand. When one has traveled in the Orient and through the ports of the Levant, one readily acquires the habit, perhaps unjust, of viewing the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=391</link>
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		<title>Missing the Obvious Pun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wish I'd known about Barney Greenglass the Sturgeon King when I worked for six months just a few blocks away: very tasty. But if I were in the lox business I would call myself the Sturgeon General. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=390</link>
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		<title>A Vegan in 1911</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The scene:
There are no trees in the "Luft Bad." It boasts a collection of plain, wooden cells, a bath shelter, two swings and two odd clubs -- one, presumably the lost property of Hercules or the German army, and the other to be used with safety in the cradle.
And there in all weathers we take [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=389</link>
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		<title>That Explains A Lot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[InstaPundit reports that since an "unfortunate incident" in his youth he hasn't had a spleen. I bet Kos and Atrios and Hamsher and Aravosis and the rest of the gang  all have theirs, and wouldn't be surprised if some of them have spleens enlarged to twice the normal size.
Of course, if InstaPundit (or Brian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=387</link>
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		<title>More on Spitzer&#8217;s Hooker&#8217;s Latin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that InstaPundit has linked me, I suppose it's time to get up off my butt and blog. Or would that be get down on my butt and blog? (I may have used that joke before.) Either way, I think I should explain the last paragraph of the e-mail he quoted today.

Tutela valui is perfectly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=386</link>
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		<title>Quotation of the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of three rivals in love, from a Brazilian novel set in the 1850s:
(Note: the aunt and the baroness are one and the same.)
He was a young man of about twenty-five or twenty-six. His name was Jorge. He wasn't ugly, but artifice had ruined a little the work of nature on him. Too much attention [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=385</link>
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		<title>Unidiomatic Spam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I see the subject-line "How to handle wild babies?", I can't help thinking of feral infants: an interesting concept for a horror movie, if it hasn't already been done. (I'm not much interested in horror movies, so I wouldn't know.) Presumably the spammers mean 'wild babes' and are just too incompetent to get even [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.drweevil.org/?p=384</link>
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