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	<title>Crenellated Flotsam</title>
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	<description>Where active minds can pause to catch their breaths.</description>
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		<title>Grown Men and Little Girls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s not much to watch on TV these days, so I&#8217;m filling some of my time watching the Vuelta a Espana bicycle race. If nothing else, it&#8217;s like a cheap travelogue that lets me see part of the world that&#8217;s far different from my own neighborhood.
One of those differences, of course, is that it&#8217;s in [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=705</link>
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		<title>Master and Servant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a great deal of time not thinking. Because I know better.
It&#8217;s funny how it works, with our minds latching onto new things and, in my case at least, trying to come up with a good reason why this new thing acts or is the way it is. I don&#8217;t pretend to come up [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=704</link>
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		<title>Stuck in the Middle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no surprise that I get lots of political e-mail: I sometimes visit the Internet.
I get it from all sides and persuasions and one of the things I learn from all this correspondence is that, although the mail is addressed to me, I&#8217;m probably not the intended recipient. If it&#8217;s to get me all fired [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=703</link>
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		<title>The Teeth Have It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a hunch just about everyone gets the whole using dental records for identification cliché wrong.
I could be wrong about its use and the facts surrounding it, but since I wince whenever I hear some character mention using dental records to identify the victim of some disfiguring murder, I think I&#8217;m right.
I don&#8217;t think [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=701</link>
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		<title>On To London</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Olympics are over, which is good news for my television. The old beast needs to rest up the next two weeks to be ready when Formula 1 starts up again in Bahrain and bicycle racing starts filling up my TiVo.
I&#8217;m either a huge fan of the Olympics or a sucker for them, depending on [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=698</link>
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		<title>A Matter of Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t much like the term Grammar Nazi, but I&#8217;ve been called that and probably worse over my life. For me, it&#8217;s not so much a matter of defending my native tongue like a cop, but I do so because I&#8217;m a hopeless romantic and I don&#8217;t like to see English hurt.

Not that the language [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=697</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Know Much About History</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t remember much from the history classes I took in school, which were only those I needed to get a degree in another field, but I don&#8217;t think that has anything to do with my point.
Every day, from every side, I hear people in America talking about our Founding Fathers, a group of people [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=696</link>
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		<title>This is Awesome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you ask me, the word awesome has pretty much lost all of its oomph.
I guess I can see why it became so popular with the kids, who are almost always at the forefront of changes in lanuguage and usage, but that doesn&#8217;t help me feel better about losing another perfectly fine word.
Over my life, [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=695</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s No Secret</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As if life weren&#8217;t confusing enough, I sometimes make it worse by refusing to understand simple concepts.
One of my longer lasting problems comes with the notion of secret. For some reason, I keep thinking of in terms of a stronger, probably non-existent word that would refer to something that I, and I alone, know. I [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=692</link>
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		<title>What JD Salinger Left With Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I read Catcher in the Rye a few times growing up and it makes me sad that it&#8217;s not as popular as it once was. Recent generations, jaded by more explicit depictions of life or just generally rebelling against earlier generations, remark that Holden is a jerk, which actually hurts me.
Still, ideas presented in a [...]
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		<link>http://www.half-dozen.net/blog/?p=689</link>
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