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I think this Black Agenda Report article, “Where Obamaism Seems to be Going”, is a good summary of the some of problems with Obama’s policies.
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Today marks ten years since I started doing morning pages. I read The Artist’s Way and decided I should try them. I was struggling with my American Literature Master’s thesis, working to get into the TCD MSc in Multimedia Systems, and quite stressed, particularly in a creative sense, even though I was doing a fair amount of creative work. So I read it, and decided that the morning pages sounded like a good idea, especially for someone who had trouble sticking to any daily routine.
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Both major US Presidential candidates have been doing highly objectionable things recently, but wow, McCain is really something.
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I wish I could have found a source for this other than the Times, but this article discusses the British Ministry of Defence paying out almost three million sterling to the father of an Iraqi killed in British custody in Basra.
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Apparently, my blog’s RSS feeds were set up incorrectly in the WordPress 2.0 version that I run, and I shouldn’t have been pointing directly to the files in the wp directory, but instead to /wp/feed. With my temporary version running WP 2.5, the functionality of those deprecated links was removed—but they still existed, merely returning blank feeds.

That should be fixed now. The most important article that people might have missed was probably the speech I gave at my father’s funeral, available for those who couldn’t make it in person.

Given the results of the Wimbledon final and the Roland Garros final, it’s hard to argue that Nadal isn’t the best tennis player in the world at the moment. However, he’s not ranked as the number one player in the world—that’s still Federer.
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I wouldn’t have put a question mark at the end of the title if Roger Federer had won, had completed his comeback from two sets to love down.
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I recently came across this rather cute trans-species-romance from Korea, and thought it was quite well done, with an animation style I found striking.

BoingBoing recently revealed that they ‘unpublished’ posts concerning Violet Blue. This caused quite a lot of commentary and some outrage among those who pay attention to such things, and I think it raises a few interesting points.
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