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		<title>Suck</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/08/03/suck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a teacher in high school who felt very strongly about the word *suck*. Most adults---those who care---object to the vulgarity of a fellatio reference, but he specifically took offense at the suggestion that the act of giving oral sex should be considered *something to use as an insult*. Our eleventh-grade selves found this pretty amusing; since we held this teacher in high regard, I believe the word did pretty much vanish from our respective lexicons, for the term and sometime afterward.

A fascinating [article in Slate](http://www.slate.com/id/2146866/) this week points out the sheer utility of the word, and suggests that we embrace its use. I must admit, the word is [awfully convenient](http://bash.org/?99835), but I hadn't been sure why until the Slate piece explained it.]]></description>
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		<title>The Half-Bakery</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/07/20/the-half-bakery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The [Half-Bakery](http://www.halfbakery.com/) came up on [reddit](http://reddit.com/info/adpi/comments) recently, and I was strongly reminded of [The Phantom Tollbooth](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0394820371/)&#8217;s *Royal Banquet*.
> &#8220;The half bakery?&#8221; questioned Milo.
>
>&#8221;Of course, the half bakery,&#8221; snapped the king. &#8220;Where do you think half-baked ideas come from? Now, please don&#8217;t interrupt. By royal command, the pastry chefs have worked all night to&#8212;&#8221;
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>&#8221;What&#8217;s a half-baked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alias Tyler Adam</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2006/02/16/alias-tyler-adam/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A blank luggage slip, a 1973 dollar, a sketch of a woman, and two carefully clipped news items.
What do they have in common? All discovered between pages of the [Book of Bread](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060913592/sr=8-1/qid=1140144078/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-6209229-7498534?%5Fencoding=UTF8), purchased for $9 at [Old Goat Books](http://www.oldgoatbooks.com/).


Are they all just meaningless tokens, grabbed in haste for use as bookmarks? What about the birth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Things</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2005/07/30/seeing-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 17:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I simply love [Watership Down](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0380002930/).
In the middle of the story, one of the rabbits tries to explain the miracle that allowed him to escape from an extraordinarly powerful foe:
&#8220;It&#8217;s going to be very hard to describe what happened next. Although all four of us were there, we don&#8217;t understand it ourselves. But what I&#8217;m going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ensuing Bloodbath</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/10/22/do-you-agree-with-byron/</link>
		<comments>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/10/22/do-you-agree-with-byron/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2004 19:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past week, the message chalked on pathways around campus has been, &#8220;Do You Agree With Byron?&#8221; Byron is a senior undergrad student who&#8217;s put up a testimony both [online](http://iagreewithbyron.com/index.cgi/statement.html), and in the student newspaper. All of this is sponsored by the [Campus Crusade For Christ](http://www.crusade.org/).
I guess I was a little disappointed to find out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Harry Potter Debate Rages On</title>
		<link>http://uwmike.com/articles/2004/07/08/harry-potter-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2004 02:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Purvis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noticed that in the most recent Christian Week there are two opposing pieces about Harry Potter in the entertainment section. I was mildly intrigued, because I&#8217;d assumed the Harry Potter debate had mostly dried up with lots of people simply agreeing to disagree.
Neither piece was actually a column. One posed as a movie review [...]]]></description>
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