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	<title>Searching for Accurate Maps &#187; language + rhetoric</title>
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		<title>Why I no longer read John Derbyshire</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:38:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Update: Derbyshire&#8217;s homepage at Taki magazine includes links to some of my favourite libertarians/Austrian economists, such as Tom Woods, Karen de Coste, Peter Schiff, Justin Raimondo and Paul Gottfried (OK, I&#8217;m not sure Gottfried is a libertarian and he&#8217;s probably not an Austrian economist, but I like what he writes update: but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good speaker tells stories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 08:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lawrence W. Reed, founder of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE), here gives a talk on his seven principles of public policy. Sounds (yawn) fascinating. It&#8217;s actually a good example of how to give an interesting talk. Reed tells stories, and these stories elucidate, educate, enlighten. First off, there&#8217;s his funny story about the property [...]]]></description>
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		<title>C.S. Lewis and the Great Divide</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 12:51:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[C.S. Lewis via last.fm Recently, I&#8217;ve been reading as much of and about the British author C.S. Lewisas I can, as you can see from my Amazon reading list in the right-hand sidebar. My original reason was to inform myself as I will teach two of his Narnian stories next academic year. I found Selected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Notes &#8211; The Shadow University (2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on&#8230; Catherine MacKinnon and Stanley Fish&#8230; are explicit in their disdain for the First Amendment&#8216;s absolutist and noncontextual approach. In her influential book Only Words, MacKinnon, a feminist legal scholar at the University of Michigan, introduced her chapter &#8220;Equality and Speech&#8221; with the blunt statement that &#8220;the law of equality and the law of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Answer Sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scenes from the Battleground&#8216;s Twitter feed points me to this Washington Post article: The Answer Sheet &#8211; teaching without gimmicks. Except for the misguided notion of targeting learning styles, none of these techniques is wrong in itself. But together they raise a barrier. Instead of bringing the subject closer to the students, this heap of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I don&#8217;t read newspapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 03:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[economic and political philosophy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia More specifically, I don&#8217;t read opinion pieces. Here&#8217;s an example of why I don&#8217;t. In the Dec. 24th edition of the Financial Times, Harry Eyres wrote in a piece called Human beings or human resources? &#8230; the Enlightenment project of raising human reason to god-like power has had disturbing results. These can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What we have here is a failure to communicate&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sheffnersweb.net/blogs/accuratemaps/language-rhetoric/did-we-communicate-here/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia In a recent issue of Journalism Communication Monographs was an article about Japan, or rather about how Japan is viewed by American magazines. It was entitled &#8220;Seeing themselves through the lens of the other: an analysis of the cross-cultural production and negotiation of National Geographic&#8217;s &#8220;The Samurai Way&#8221; story&#8221;. Thinking that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Other people&#8217;s lives, or Carlin and Nock</title>
		<link>http://www.sheffnersweb.net/blogs/accuratemaps/language-rhetoric/learning-from-autobiographies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Do you read autobiographies? I read a lot of books, but autobiographies is not a genre that has attracted me much for most of my life. At a certain stage of his life, my dad  read and recommended autobiographies to me . I remember one. It was the autobiography of actor Dirk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work till you drop&#8230; it&#8217;ll stave off Alzheimer&#8217;s!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 00:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sheffner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia Well, well. First we get this reminder from the Telegraph (reminding us of who is really working for whom) and then barely two weeks later, this from the BBC: Keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way to ward off Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, research suggests. There&#8217;s a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autumn at  Sheffield Park Gardens, East Sussex</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Nov 2008 04:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Autumn at Sheffield Park Gardens, East Sussex Originally uploaded by Anguskirk In a November 4th article in the Daily Yomiuri, Mike Guest wrote about marked language: &#8220;phrases like, &#8220;Japan&#8217;s four seasons&#8221; instead of the seasons, or &#8220;American joke&#8221; for any joke told by a foreigner. Marked by redundancy. &#8221; Many Japanese will insist that Japan [...]]]></description>
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