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	<description>travels in Indian Country and other terrains</description>
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		<title>Gimme a Break</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or I&#8217;m taking one, anyway. Today, we begin the move out of the motorhome, out of storage, and into the new apartment. It is reorientation time. Then, next Sunday is my birthday. (I will be thirty-five. Or twenty-five. I forget. But either way I look much younger, and I have a head of hair like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eating Poetry (X)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shopping for Pomegranates at Wal-Mart on New Year’s Day
by Campbell McGrath
 


Beneath a ten-foot-tall apparition of Frosty the Snowman
with his corncob pipe and jovial, over-eager, button-black eyes,
holding, in my palm, the leathery, wine-colored purse
of a pomegranate, I realize, yet again, that America is a country
about which I understand everything and nothing at all,
that this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eight Bad Arguments for Torture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I believe in American exceptionalism.
There, I said it. Now let me make clear what I mean.
I believe the American advent, the American idea, and the American experience are exceptional: a nation of laws, and not of men and women, a constitutional democracy founded in and devoted to the liberty of its people, a culture and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/eight-bad-arguments-for-torture/</link>
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		<title>Landed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julia and I took an apartment yesterday. Just over sixteen months ago we rented our home, uprooted nearly every element of our lives, and hit the road in our thirty-seven foot motorhome. We spent four days with the coach parked in front of our house moving about a half percent of what we own into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reader&#8217;s Gallery 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Curran is a reader who lives in Oakton, Virginia. Not long ago, John and I had a spirited exchange over two posts on the recent Supreme Court decision regarding corporate campaign spending. It turns out John is a federal computer security officer, and I&#8217;m not allowed to tell you anything else under threat of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/a-readers-gallery-1/</link>
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		<title>How We Lived on It (14) &#8211; In the Painted Room</title>
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Music: &#8220;In the Painted Room,&#8221;  by Karenn Gibson Roc, from the album Touching the Soul
Video: Phil Roc:
Label: Lemon Grass Music
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		<link>http://sadredearth.com/how-we-lived-on-it-iv-in-the-painted-room/</link>
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		<title>The  Open Mind V: the Language of Conceptual Clarity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shrink sounds like an enlightened, empowering doctor, the kind I certainly want myself. Do not condescend. Explain everything I wish to know, which will be a lot. Enable me, and provide me with options. And please – please – know more than I do.
And the pilots shall fly the planes, and the aeronautical engineers build [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/the-open-mind-v-the-language-of-conceptual-clarity/</link>
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		<title>Cobell (Individual Indian Money Trust Fund) Settlement News</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff and driving force behind the now fourteen-year-old Individual Indian Money Trust Fund suit has been issuing periodic reports since news of a settlement of the case back in December. I wrote about it in The Nature of Things.
Although the &#8220;Ask Elouise&#8221; letters, sent to those on the litigation listserv are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/cobell-individual-indian-money-trust-fund-settlement-news/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s What They Think, Thursday 2/25/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom Garafalo, The Havana Note &#8211; Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 1967-2010
Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a 42 year old political prisoner arrested by Cuban authorities in the crackdown of Spring 2003, has died after an 83 day hunger strike.
Jonathan Chait, The New Republic &#8211; A Brief Reconciliation Primer
As Mary McCarthy once said of Lillian Hellman, everything the GOP [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/thats-what-they-think-thursday-2252010/</link>
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		<title>The Open Mind V: Riposte</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ShrinkWrapped has offered his response to my The Open Mind V: the Language of Black and White. Comments are closed here at the sad red earth and should be made at ShrinkWrapped. Earlier installments of this series can be found on the horizontal menu above.
The Open Mind V: Riposte
Let me see if I can touch on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/the-open-mind-v-riposte/</link>
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		<title>That&#8217;s What They Think, Wednesday 2/24/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nick Meo, Telegraph - Jews leave Swedish city after sharp rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes (H/T Normblog)
It&#8217;s all perfectly natural. I was unhappy about Tibet, so I attacked Chinese on the streets of Los Angeles.
Christian Tau, Z-Word Blog - The Anti-Jewish Riots in Oslo
Are we picking up a pattern here?
Jonathan Chait, The New Republic - [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/thats-what-they-think-wednesday-2242010/</link>
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		<title>The Open Mind V: the Language of Black and White</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, siddown. Holster your resentments. I’m not talking about that black and white. I’m referring to the fallacy. (Murmer, murmer, grumble, murmer.)
Sometimes labeled, parthenogenetically, the fallacy of bifurcation, more commonly known as the either/or fallacy, this form of thinking also sports the “black and white fallacy” moniker. You get the idea. There are only two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/the-open-mind-v-the-language-of-black-and-white/</link>
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		<title>More Montevideo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This delayed contribution of student photos from Uruguay comes from Michaela Reisinger, a fourth-generation pharmacist from Austria. Nearly everyone else on this travel photo workshop had been on multiple trips with Julia (and me), but Michaela was new. Smart, witty, and gregarious, a lover of good food and drink, she instantly became part of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/more-montevideo/</link>
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		<title>Misreading the Adversary: an Open Mind Prequel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been oppressively busy since the return from Buenos Aires and hadn’t a clue what I might have time to post about today. Yesterday, because the Jewel is beyond oppressively busy with some shindig she’s hosting, project ally and friend S drove me down to San Diego to collect Obelisk from its repair facility. (We’ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/misreading-the-adversary-an-open-mind-prequel/</link>
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		<title>That’s What They Think, Friday 2/19/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Long War Journal &#8211; All Headlines
While conservative critics are gazing in the mirror, and the others are looking elsewhere, the Obama administration is waging real war.
Adam Holland &#8211; Ron Paul website mourns anti-Semitic author
A new crack sprouts in Paul&#8217;s pot&#8217;s spout.
Barry Rubin, GLORIA Center &#8211; Why Isn&#8217;t There Peace? One Reason: Few People Know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/that%e2%80%99s-what-they-think-friday-2192010/</link>
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		<title>An Affirmation of Zionism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the very core of the recent dispute between Leon Wieseltier and Andrew Sullivan, as I saw it, have seen it, and see it, is Sullivan&#8217;s imbalanced adoption &#8211; even as he professes his empathy with, and idealized admiration of, Jews &#8211; of the anti-Israeli perceptions and rhetoric that are the currency of anti-Zionists. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/an-affirmation-of-zionism/</link>
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		<title>That’s What They Think, Thursday 2/18/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Amnesty UK &#8211; Human rights are for all: Response to media article
And if the Allies had violated any of what we now think of as Herman Goering&#8217;s human rights, would Amnesty International, upon his release, have stood on podiums with him to champion those rights? Evading-the-Point 101, or the downward spiral of self-interested, self-righteous rationalization [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/that%e2%80%99s-what-they-think-thursday-2182010/</link>
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		<title>Project 5 Silent Auction This Saturday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SILENT AUCTION OF MORE THAN 100 IMAGES BY PROMINENT PHOTOGRAPHERS
Auction Will Raise Money for Documentary Photography
-FEBRUARY 20, 2010, from 7-10 p.m. (bidding starts at 9) at THE STEPHEN COHEN GALLERY
7358 Beverly Blvd. in Los Angeles (90036)

Actor and photographer Aaron Eckhart will join Julia Dean, founder of The Julia Dean Photo Workshops, for an exhibit and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/project-5-silent-auction-this-saturday/</link>
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		<title>That’s What They Think, Tuesday 2/16/2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jonathan Chait, The New Republic &#8211; Democratic Dysfunction, An Update
Democrats are punks.
Bernie Becker and Jeff Zeleny, The Caucus &#8211; Bayh Decides Against Re-election Bid
He complains about the difficulty of getting anything done, yet, &#8220;[a]ccording to analysis by The Times of Mr. Bayh’s voting history, he has voted with a majority of the Democratic caucus roughly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/that%e2%80%99s-what-they-think-tuesday-2162010/</link>
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		<title>Mind Games IV: Cause and Defect</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember all those soul searching headlines?
Why Do They Hate Us?
Question: who is “they” and who is “us”? And do we mean I-want-to-cut-your-head-off hate or how-do-I-get-a-green-card hate?
The Pew Research Center’s latest polling results, “Mixed Views of Hamas and Hezbollah in Largely Muslim Nations: Little Enthusiasm for Many Muslim Leaders,” supports some compelling perspectives. Despite a bare [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sadredearth.com/mind-games-iv-cause-and-defect/</link>
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