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		<title>A Savage Take on Gay Adoption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dan Savage is a wonder! He makes the most persuasive case I&#8217;ve seen/heard for gay adoption, coming at it from a number of different perspectives, including an evolutionary perspective. He does it calmly, clearly, and lovingly. If I had a child I was, for whatever reason, unable to raise, I can think of no more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2010/02/08/a-savage-take-on-gay-adoption/</link>
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		<title>Here We Come A&#8217;Wassailing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We went caroling Friday evening at Frank and Mary&#8217;s, and had a great time. And the Buddhist Peace Fellowship weekly trip to our local state penitentiary is on Wednesday, and we&#8217;re going to do some caroling with the sangha there. To prepare for the caroling sessions, I put together a book of lyrics of some [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/12/20/here-we-come-awassailing/</link>
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		<title>Triple Crown</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Breaking news: &#8220;The Giant Pool of Money&#8221; has just won a Peabody Award! Congratulations to Adam, to Alex, to Ira and the team at This American Life, and to the people at NPR who tried something new and helped foal a winner!
First, the DuPont/Columbia Award; then, the George Polk Award; now, the Peabody. In broadcast [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/04/01/triple-crown/</link>
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		<title>The cost of digitizing books (and of spreading the info in them)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Brewster Kahle, over at the Open Content Alliance, has an interesting post about the cost of digitizing books. His overall take: it&#8217;s very cheap, especially relative to the cost of maintaining brick &#38; mortar libraries. And, I might add, incredibly worthwhile, especially when you factor in the negligible additional cost of reproducing a digitized book. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/03/24/the-cost-of-digitizing-books-and-of-spreading-the-info-in-them/</link>
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		<title>Yeh Hum Naheem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought I&#8217;d write a post praising moderate Islam. I&#8217;ve pretty much concluded that the phrase is an oxymoron, like &#8220;tolerant fundamentalist&#8221;. But this video is almost enough to convince me otherwise:



For one thing, it&#8217;s a lovely song, with lyrics that seem, from the subtitles, to be graceful and true. Its message is universal; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/02/06/yeh-hum-naheem/</link>
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		<title>An Economical Post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Incompletely developed thoughts, loosely connected:

It&#8217;s not spending. It&#8217;s buying. The government is not spending our money when it builds roads and subsidizes the employment of teachers and health care workers; it&#8217;s buying us better roads, better schools, better hospitals.
Economics is not an empirical science. It&#8217;s reasoned guessing. That&#8217;s why there&#8217;s no Standard Theory in economics, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/02/03/an-economical-post/</link>
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		<title>Quote Without Comment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;My life is never dictated by superstitions. My faith is first and foremost. If you believe that God&#8217;s in control, there is no reason to believe in superstitions.&#8221;
Thanks to PZ
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		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/02/03/quote-without-comment/</link>
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		<title>It was ever thus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ishmael muses:

And, doubtless, my going on this whaling voyage, formed part of the grand programme of Providence that was drawn up a long time ago. It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:


GRAND [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/01/26/it-was-ever-thus/</link>
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		<title>Congratulations, Adam and Alex!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another occasion for attachment. Alex and Adam won a Silver Baton at the DuPont-Columbia Journalism Awards Thursday evening. It&#8217;s a big deal, and they were in exceptional company. The award was for the prescient radio show they produced last May, &#8220;The Giant Pool of Money&#8220;, which did so much to de-mystify what was then being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://iswhatido.org/2009/01/25/congratulations-adam-and-alex/</link>
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		<title>Lagomorphic karma</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ace was a handsome rabbit. He was large, as rabbits go, with erect ears and a lovely tri-tone coat: dark brown, lighter brown, and tan. Alex found him in the street outside his apartment, in Wicker Park, in Chicago, in the summer or fall of 2000. After trying in vain to find his owner, Alex [...]]]></description>
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