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		<title>The Great Chain of Being &#8212; A Poem in Progress</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/the-great-chain-of-being-a-poem-in-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:18:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it&#8217;s crass to write a poem out in the open and explain it as I go. But that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m going to do. Theme: The Great Chain of Being.
Nothing is invisible &#8211;
We have our ways of casing the world:
Tripods squat upon their earth,
Antennae grow in thickets,
Satellites collect signs of universal dust
From glowing distant cartwheel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=216&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Alexander Pope and The Great Chain of Being</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cross-posted to Wellreadchild.com.
The current issue of Lapham&#8217;s Quarterly examines the theme of Nature, and includes this excerpt from Pope&#8217;s Essay on Man:
VIII. See, through this air, this ocean, and this earth,
All matter quick, and bursting into birth.
Above, how high, progressive life may go!
Around, how wide! how deep extend below?
Vast chain of being! which from God [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=215&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nader and Ferraro: Left-Wing Racism and Right-Wing Feminism</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/nader-and-ferraro-left-wing-racism-and-right-wing-feminism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a legitimate criticism of the left: its identity politics can be a condescension to those it means to champion. Riddled with anti-racist and anti-sexist taboos on language, its politics doth protest too much. It&#8217;s quite a spectacle to watch a liberal white friend walk on eggshells around a black person because they&#8217;re afraid of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=213&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The McEwan Delusion: The Pseudo-Threat of Islamism</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/the-mcewan-delusion-the-pseudo-threat-of-islamism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two premises at work in the special reservoir of emotion that McEwan and others reserve for Islamism: the first is that the fundamental cause of Islamic terrorism is actually Islamism -- a certain kind of fundamentalist, politicized Islam. The second is that Islamic terrorism is a powerful and dangerous force in the modern world, and the preeminent national security concern of liberal Western societies. Both will seem like obvious truths to many Westerners. But both are false.
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		<title>The Constitution and Obama&#8217;s Dissaopinting Stand on FISA</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/06/21/the-constitution-and-obamas-dissaopinting-stand-on-fisa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 23:23:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never seen the &#8220;halo&#8221; that others have claimed for Obama (usually his opponents, at the many moments they claim it has just been removed). But since my posts to this blog have been relentlessly pro-Obama, here&#8217;s my chance to prove that I&#8217;m not simply a true believer.
While public financing is a non-issue, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=209&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obama and Public Financing &#8212; A Response to Stuart Roy</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/06/20/obama-and-public-financing-a-response-to-stuart-roy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Crossfit friend Stuart writes the following piece, with which I must respectfully disagree.
With regards to Obama&#8217;s &#8220;Messianic Image&#8221; and the claim that his supporters have &#8220;drunk the Koolaid&#8221; (or rather &#8220;taken shots&#8221; of it, far more suitable to the demographic): this is a generic piece of political rhetoric that can be used, and has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=207&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media Fairness and Hillary</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/media-fairness-and-hillary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:16:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greg Sargent asks whether the media was unfair to Hillary, and goes on to list examples of an
extraordinary amount of frivolous, crude, unfair, misleading, outright dishonest, and transparently mendacious media coverage that without question had a major impact on this campaign. This should not have been tolerated by any liberals or Democrats, Obama supporters included.
Sargent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=205&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Down with Harry Potter</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/down-with-harry-potter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 19:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I&#8217;ve pissed off several friends already by forwarding this critique of Harry Potter, it&#8217;s time to troll it up on the blog. I hereby admit that I feel nothing but revulsion for Harry Potter and everything he stands for. I wanted to articulate why one day, and then I came across A.S. Byatt&#8217;s fantastic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=203&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Brief Summary of Ian McEwan&#8217;s Saturday</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/27/a-brief-summary-of-ian-mcewans-saturday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 21:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Begin day. Pre-day. Brain Surgeon awakes suddenly &#8220;some hours before dawn.&#8221; Opens window on London square from fancy big apartment. Condescending observation of square peons. Sees a distressed plane and its trail of fire cross the sky to an unknown fate in the west. Fears terrorism. Biologically reductive reveries about terrorism and religion. Nature, nurture, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=202&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Hungover a Line (a sonnet)</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/poetry-friday-hungover-a-line-a-sonnet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 15:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My latest on wellreadchild:
Ms. Tullo asked me to write a sonnet. So I did.
Hungover a Line
by Wes
Hungover a line, to dry the crime
I wring out little droplets of regret
Last night dissolves below me, in the brine
Today flies upward with my darkening head
These sparking thoughts make way from cloud to cloud
In search of what I committed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=201&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When &#8220;Experience&#8221; is Conformity, and &#8220;Toughness&#8221; Insecurity</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/when-experience-is-conformity-and-toughness-insecurity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I talk to friends who are worried about an Obama candidacy and possible administration, I hear the following:

Americans will not elect a black man
Obama is inexperienced and soft
The optimism of Obama and his supporters seems dangerously naive
Obama is simply a politician, like the rest, and no more like to put principle ahead of political [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=200&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Viability of Obama, Part II &#8212; The Meaning of Toughness</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/10/the-viability-of-obama-part-ii-the-meaning-of-toughness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 01:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year ago I wrote a post called The Viability of Obama, in response to to friends who thought that the United States was not ready to elect a black president (and long before Obama was thought of as anything but a foil for Clinton). So yes, I&#8217;m here to congratulate myself. In part. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=199&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We Hard Working, White, Statistical Falsehoods (Obama&#8217;s Demographic Problem: The Elderly, not Whites)</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/we-hard-working-white-statistical-falsehoods-obamas-demographic-problem-the-elderly-not-whites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 23:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clinton: I, but not Barack Obama, have the support of
working, hard-working Americans, White Americans
Some &#8230; call you swing voters, I call you Americans
(Where &#8220;hard-working&#8221; means uneducated enough to have voted for Bush twice).
The common interpretation among pundits is that it is an unwise but innocent statement of fact. But it is neither factual nor innocent.
First, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=198&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Friday Challenge: The Aubade</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/poetry-friday-challenge-the-aubade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 15:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s WellReadChild post:




We&#8217;ve done the aubade,  and Wilbur,  so I thought I&#8217;d combine them and turn it into a challenge.
In Richard  Wilbur&#8217;s &#8220;Late Aubade,&#8221; the morning departure of a lover has already been staved off. It&#8217;s just a  matter of how long he can sustain the post-coital languor. Love has a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=197&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If we took a holiday &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/04/30/if-we-took-a-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 02:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting that the shameful pandering that is the gas tax holiday is being acknowledged as such by the establishment press; I can&#8217;t remember such a broad consensus in the punditocracy about charges like that. Is that because Obama resistance to that pandering is such a rarity? If  there weren&#8217;t that contrast I&#8217;m not sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=196&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Love Calls Us to the Things of This World</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/poetry-friday-love-calls-us-to-the-things-of-this-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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Richard Wilbur published his first poem when he was 8 years old. He went on to  translate Moliere and Racine, write lyrics musicals, win the Pulitzer Prize, and  become the U.S. Poet Laureate. If you&#8217;ve never been inspired by laundry, now&#8217;s your chance.
Love Calls Us to the Things of This World
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Philip Larkin&#8217;s &#8220;Aubade&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;I work all day, and get half drunk at night&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/poetry-friday-philip-larkins-aubade-i-work-all-day-and-get-half-drunk-at-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
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In the Middle Ages minstrels sometimes sang Aubades, or songs about lovers parting at dawn. This theme was revived by metaphysical poets like John Donne. In &#8220;The Sun Rising,&#8221; he rails against the sun for its interruption of lovers.
In &#8220;Aubade,&#8221; Philip Larkin replaces one lover with death, and speaks of night not as romantic cover [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=194&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We are All Descendants of Muhammed, Charlemagne, etc.</title>
		<link>http://politary.wordpress.com/2008/04/07/we-are-all-descendants-of-muhammed-charlemagne-etc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And like Barack Obama, we are all cousins of Dick Cheney.
A  little research that once ended my genealogical ambitions to find someone famous in my family:
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Under the conditions laid out in his paper, the most recent common ancestor of every European today (except for recent immigrants to the Continent) was someone who lived [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=politary.wordpress.com&blog=221748&post=192&subd=politary&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poetry Friday: Crossing the Hellespont</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A poem by me, available here.
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		<title>Silvanellia Plath</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t quite get my Villanelle Expirans right. Here&#8217;s another go.
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