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	<description>Chris Brooke&#039;s Weblog</description>
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		<title>Dead Socialist: Howard Zinn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Born 24 August 1922, Brooklyn, NY; died earlier today, Santa Monica, CA.
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2010/01/27/dead-socialist-howard-zinn/</link>
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		<title>A Short History of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Told in Quotations from Some of Its Greatest Citizens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over here.
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2010/01/26/a-short-history-of-the-commonwealth-of-massachusetts-told-in-quotations-from-some-of-its-greatest-citizens/</link>
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		<title>He&#8217;s not the Messiah &#8212; he&#8217;s a very naughty boy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Raj, now in the New York Times bestseller list for the second week running, addresses claims that he is, in fact, the Messiah.
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2010/01/26/hes-not-the-messiah-hes-a-very-naughty-boy/</link>
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		<title>Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Testing
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2010/01/24/testing/</link>
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		<title>Winterval Greetings</title>
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Luke 2:9: And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. [via]
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2009/12/24/winterval-greetings/</link>
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		<title>Enkidu, RIP</title>
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Our beloved cat Enkidu is dead. He was last seen alive on Monday 16 November, and was found dead at the Jericho boatyard the following day, cause of death unknown. He was four and a half years old. Full tribute over the fold.

T. S. Eliot was of the opinion that the naming of cats was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2009/12/15/enkidu-rip/</link>
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		<title>Thought for the Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since the platitudinous nonsense that is broadcast as &#8216;Thought for the Day&#8217; on Radio 4 each morning presumably contributes in some small way to the fact that ours is, basically, a secular society, why are the atheists or the humanists (or whatever they want to call themselves) so keen to get in on the act? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2009/11/18/thought-for-the-day/</link>
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		<title>Stefan Collini on John Burrow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over here.
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2009/11/18/stefan-collini-on-john-burrow/</link>
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		<title>Trailer: Raj Patel, The Value of Nothing</title>
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		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2009/11/17/trailer-raj-patel-the-value-of-nothing/</link>
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		<title>Could Russell Brand Give Your Daughters Swine Flu?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps everyone else has seen this, but I&#8217;ve just noticed that the splendid Daily Mail-o-Matic has been updated to include 2009 bogeymen. Have the PC Brigade Had Sex with the Queen? Could Alistair Darling Molest Common Sense and Decency? Are the Unions Impregnating the Countryside?
Also, the postmodernism generator is much more sophisticated than it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://virtualstoa.net/2009/11/16/could-russell-brand-give-your-daughters-swine-flu/</link>
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