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		<title>Poem: Down with Fanatics!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Down With Fanatics!
If I had my way with violent men
I&#8217;d simmer them in oil,
I&#8217;d fill a pot with bitumen
And bring them to the boil.
I execrate the terrorist
And those who harbour him,
And if I weren&#8217;t a moralist
I&#8217;d tear them limb from limb.
Fanatics are an evil breed
Whom decent men should shun;
I&#8217;d like to flog them till they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Goals 2010 - 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following my New Year&#8217;s post from a few months ago, I recently pledged to give away at least 1% of my income every year, to charity.
The intention behind putting this post up here, is to hopefully make some of the readers of this blog think about giving away more to help others. I find that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/philanthrophy/giving-goals-2010-2011/</link>
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		<title>Amusing reviews of crappy books I hope I never have to read (July 2010)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[- The World is Flat by Thomas Friedman (Review by Matt Taibbi)
- Bonus Review: Hot, Flat and Crowded
- Eat, Pray, Love (Review by Rolf Potts)
- Going Rogue
OK, so this one isn&#8217;t that funny. But it&#8217;s a good five part synopsis from a guy that read Sarah Palin&#8217;s Going Rogue, so you don&#8217;t have to (He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/interesting-links/amusing-reviews-of-crappy-books-i-hope-i-never-have-to-read-july-2010/</link>
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		<title>The Media and Role Models for Children</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a hiatus from actively reading / watching / seeking the news, for several months. That experiment ended earlier this year. I&#8217;ll blog about it someday.
I will say that I didn&#8217;t miss much. A big deal in American media this week seems to be how much jail time a young actress should get for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/philanthrophy/the-media-and-role-models-for-children/</link>
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		<title>Poem: I had a hippopotamus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I Had a Hippopotamus
I had a hippopotamus; I kept him in a shed
And fed him upon vitamins and vegetable bread.
I made him my companion on many cheery walks,
And had his portrait done by a celebrity in chalks.

His charming eccentricities were known on every side.
The creature&#8217;s popularity was wonderfully wide.
He frolicked with the Rector in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More webcomics about Homeopathy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great, quick overview of the underlying principles of homeopathy. I highly recommend reading it.
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xkcd took a crack at it:

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Also this guy (Click on comic to read the whole thing):

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		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/pseudoscience/more-webcomics-about-homeopathy/</link>
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		<title>G20 Anarcho-Protesters and the Panchayati Raj</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The G20 summit was in Toronto last weekend. Leaders of twenty of the world&#8217;s richest or most influential nations met to discuss world affairs. Along with a bunch of mostly peaceful protesters. And a whole bunch of not so peaceful ones.
A few hundred protesters went on a rampage, in the neighbourhood I live in. They [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/bad-ideas/g20-anarcho-protesters-and-the-panchayati-raj/</link>
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		<title>End of my Twenties</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always been happy about the fact that whatever other stupid shit I may have been guilty of, I never wrote the kind of self-indulgent &#8220;poetry&#8221; that makes me want to smack every skinny jean wearing haiku-spouting hipster I meet in the face with a potato.
Until now.
I am going into hiding, pending the arrival of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/poetry/end-of-my-twenties/</link>
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		<title>Television: A poem by Roald Dahl</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Television
The most important thing we’ve learned,
So far as children are concerned,
Is never, NEVER, NEVER let
Them near your television set –
Or better still, just don’t install
The idiotic thing at all.

In almost every house we’ve been,
We’ve watched them gaping at the screen.
They loll and slop and lounge about,
And stare until their eyes pop out.
(Last week in someone’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/poetry/television-a-poem-by-roald-dahl/</link>
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		<title>Recommended Reading : June 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m starting a new series on my blog. Every few months I&#8217;ll put up a collection of recommended reading (books, blog posts, comic strips, whatever). I&#8217;ll try and keep it to ten or fewer items each time.
Blog posts and articles:
- Words Fail Me by Dale McGowan
- Why, oh why, are they so materialistic? by Atanu [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://hoopyfrood.org/recommended-reading/recommended-reading-june-2010/</link>
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