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		<title>Putin on the Ritz</title>
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Not sure why I love this.
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		<title>The Matrix vs. Carl Sagan</title>
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		<link>http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/612</link>
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		<title>Still here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oh yes, and how.&#160; Perhaps this summer I&#8217;ll try updating thisdarkqualm a bit more often.&#160; I need to spend the summer sending out and prepping a couple articles, revising the diss, and getting a book proposal together.&#160; But lately, I&#8217;ve been apartment hunting.
Not apartment hunting in connection with a tenure-track position in some interesting metropolis&#8211;rather, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/605</link>
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		<title>Buzzing, buzzing.</title>
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through
&#160;  narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?
Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/601</link>
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		<title>So long, Mr. Gygax</title>
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		<title>Our Comcastic Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps I should know better than to post this, since my local internet provider has been&#160; purchased by Comcast.&#160; But this is really just too precious: 
They arrived en masse some 90 minutes before the hearing began and occupied almost every available seat, upon which many promptly fell asleep.
It&#8217;s kind of a neat new trick [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Date</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s often kind of tragic, working at Cafe Kopi.&#160; So many doomed 1st date couples within earshot.&#160; The couple next to me: 
She: &#8220;That shop was the only place I could go to feel better.&#160; So many times I would walk to the counter, and the person would ask me, because she recognized me, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Sure Thing&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s a multibillion-dollar industry that gives investors incredible financial incentive to see you dead.&#8220;
Capitalism brings a new blessing.
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		<title>We Dislikes the MLA Style</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so the MLA &#8220;parenthetical style&#8221; of citing sources is very annoying; however the MLA Handbook does provide some guidance on how to use footnotes as well.&#160; Here&#8217;s an example of citing something from an edited collection using MLA footnote style (this example lifted from a random website):
Carmen DaSilva, &#8220;Life Insurance as a Tool for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://thisdarkqualm.com/archives/594</link>
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		<title>The future of literature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[is in ALL CAPS.
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