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	<description>I just wanted to live quietly in the woods.</description>
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		<title>Societal Regression</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2010/01/02/blasphemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Blasphemy is now a crime in Ireland.
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		<title>Shameful</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2010/01/01/dc-school-vouchers/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2010/01/01/dc-school-vouchers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Congress]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Congress kills District of Columbia school voucher program.
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		<title>Iranian Government Stupidity</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/20/gilan-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/20/gilan-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peterporcupine.com/?p=119</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you can&#8217;t suppress a population&#8217;s beliefs or traditions or language, the only thing left is to destroy their land and their historical objects. That&#8217;s what the Iranian government is doing to the people of Gilan province and their ancient trees:
[T]he authorities have ordered the cutting down of dozens of two-centuries-old mulberry trees in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Language in Decline?</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/17/japanese-language/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/17/japanese-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Japan]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Language]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peterporcupine.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Is Japanese declining in &#8220;the age of English&#8220;? I&#8217;m skeptical. People have been complaining about linguistic decay since the beginning to time.
While the intellectual quality of books in libraries, articles on the net and everything written in Japanese is becoming worse and worse, productions in English in contrast would appear to be becoming richer and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why is that college president smiling?</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/17/presidential-salaries/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/17/presidential-salaries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Universities]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peterporcupine.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Because he&#8217;s raking in a fortune. Higher education should exemplify moral leadership, but institutionally it too often presents little more than moral bankruptcy and corruption.
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		<title>Sulawesi Earthquake</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/16/sulawesi-earthquake/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/16/sulawesi-earthquake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Earthquakes]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Indonesia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Magnitude 7.5 according to preliminary reports, near Minahasa.
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		<title>The Golden Journey to Samarkand</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/15/samarkand-state-university/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/15/samarkand-state-university/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Allusions]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Architecture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Museums]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Uzbekistan]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Porcupines are far more intellectual than people realize. We just wear our erudition lightly. We are slow moving, near sighted, and we spend a lot of time sitting and thinking. We are perfectly adapted for scholarship.
This porcupine likes to explore universities around the world, and today is browsing Samarkand State University in Uzbekistan. (Good morning, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fifth Dragon King</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/14/king-of-bhutan/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/14/king-of-bhutan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Bhutan]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[New England]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The fifth Dragon King of Bhutan, Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck, crowned this week, has the right outlook:
I will never rule you as a King. I will protect you as a parent, care for you as a brother and serve you as a son. I have no personal goals other than to fulfill your hopes and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Planting Trees in Cameroon</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/14/planting-trees-in-cameroon/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/14/planting-trees-in-cameroon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Porcupines like trees. We therefore highly approve of this local project in Cameroon to replant trees in an area that has become deforested due to over-exploitation. (Good morning, Cameroon. It shall be such work as your descendants shall thank you for.)
George Wither says:

He that delights to Plant and Set,
Makes After-Ages in his Debt.
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		<title>The World is Governed Too Much</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/maldives-government-looks-like-a-business-company/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/maldives-government-looks-like-a-business-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The government of the Maldives seems to own just about everything in the country. A commenter asks: &#8220;and still most of the people live in poverty??? no proper mode of traveling. what the heck are they doing with all the money?&#8221; They need it to run the government, of course!
(Good morning, Maldivians. My condolences on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of Social Work</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/social-work/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/social-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Academic departments of Social Work, like their kindred departments in Schools of Education, are more like cults than scholarly enterprises. FIRE reports today that the Binghamton University Department of Social Work is retaliating against a student who dared to challenge the cult&#8217;s leaders:
The department ordered the suspension of a master&#8217;s student for one year with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese Astroturfing?</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/wu-mao-dang/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/wu-mao-dang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there a &#8220;Fifty Cents [per post] Party&#8221; in China that fills the blogosphere with pro-government posts and comments? It would be surprising if there weren&#8217;t. Astroturfing is a tried-and-true practice of politicians, lobbyists, and marketers around the world. (Tried-and-true unless you get caught at it.)
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		<title>Golden Kangaroos</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/golden-kangaroos/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/golden-kangaroos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Coins]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coins are often among the most beautiful emblems of any country&#8217;s identity. Herewith I begin a series of lovely examples. Today&#8217;s specimen: the 2008 one-ounce gold Kangaroo from Australia.
(Good morning, Australia.)
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		<title>Magical Thinking in Higher Ed</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/lone-star-college/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/13/lone-star-college/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:04:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FIRE asks: &#8220;Does Lone Star College–Tomball Really Fear the Word ‘Gun’?&#8221; Clearly it does.
Just imagine if someone had used the word porcupine. &#8220;They have sharp quills! They hit people with their tails! They live in the woods with crazy people!&#8221;

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		<title>&#8220;The decision to ban the gnomes&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/12/cemetery-gnomes/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/12/cemetery-gnomes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cemeteries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That wins my prize for journalistic-phrase-of-the-day.
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		<title>Cognitive Benefits of Nature</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/attention-restoration/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/attention-restoration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Porcupinian Wisdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is news? Not to us porcupines.
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		<title>Ishmael on Individuality</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/melville/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/melville/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:36:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://peterporcupine.com/?p=45</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The question of what makes something an individual—or conversely not an individual but a collection—is an old one in philosophy. Melville offers an illustration in The Chase—Second Day:
They were one  man, not thirty. For as the one ship that held them all; though  it was put together of all contrasting things—oak, and maple, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11/11</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/wilfred-owen/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/wilfred-owen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wilfred Owen&#8217;s &#8220;Strange Meeting&#8221;:
It seemed that out of battle I escaped
Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped
Through granites which Titanic wars had groined.
Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned,
Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred.
Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared
With piteous recognition in fixed eyes,
Lifting distressful hands as if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bierce and His Devil</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/bierce-and-his-devil/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/11/bierce-and-his-devil/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s getting hard for me to think of Ambrose Bierce as anything but the quintessential, though unrealized, poster boy for PTSD.&#8221; In the same way that Kay Jamison has gone back and identified many creative artists who suffered from manic-depression, I think the time has come, now that we have a better handle on it, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Morning, Kamchatka</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/10/kamchatka/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/10/kamchatka/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m glad your reindeer herds are being restored.
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		<title>The King is a Fink</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/09/thailand/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/09/thailand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 05:42:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Polite speech needs no legal protection. Insults do. I worry that Americans don&#8217;t understand this anymore.
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		<title>We Shall Remain</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/08/pbs/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/08/pbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This looks good.
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		<title>Very like a porcupine</title>
		<link>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/08/porcupine/</link>
		<comments>http://peterporcupine.com/2008/11/08/porcupine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Porcupine</dc:creator>
		
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