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		<title>Ivan Illich, Education, and The Good Life</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/12/19/ivan-illich-education-and-the-good-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ivan Illich’s Deschooling Society (1972) exposes our assumptions that a degree is an education, that medicine is health care, that security is safety, that institutionalization of jobs in corporations, schools, and government creates our freedom. We&#8217;ve come to confuse degrees, medicine, jobs, and security for the good life.
When what we value, what we want, becomes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1333&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Eutobiography of Benjamin Franklin</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would Benjamin Franklin, electrical experimenter and founder of our first public library, have thought of today’s electronic readers? 
Of his first attempt at building a public library, he says, “…reading became fashionable; and our people, having no public amusements to divert their attention from study, became better acquainted with books…” (90), and he claims strangers [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1322&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where readers eSurface but authors lose control</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/12/18/where-readers-esurface-with-electronic-books-but-authors-lose-control/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One advantage of the eBook is lightness. And library books “just disappear” from the little light box on the due date – so no overdue notices, an article in this week’s Christian Science Monitor (print edition) illustrates (we’ve noticed our print books disappearing occasionally, reminding us of bumbling Polonius’s advice, “Neither a borrower nor a lender [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1317&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Me epistle on “Moopetsi meepotsi”</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever challenged with words unknown we go first to the OED then to Finnegans Wake. We did so this morning looking for meep, following yet another Language Log thread. We found meep in Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, on page 276, in footnote number 4:
“Parley vows the Askinwhose? I do, Ida. And how to call the cattle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1312&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where Sarah Palin Meets Andy Warhol</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 17:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Warhol is everywhere. That sentence is everywhere. Andy’s fame has lasted longer than his predicted 15 minutes of world-wide fame for all of us. But one place he’s currently not to be found is on the New York Times bestseller list, which is full of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue, already topping the million mark, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1294&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Written after a visit to Language Log</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/written-after-a-visit-to-language-log/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We look forward to our daily dose of Language Log. Language has undone so many. This morning there&#8217;s a post on the mateless orange, for she can&#8217;t be rhymed, yet she&#8217;s not alone. 
          The Mateless Orange
The shelves are bare of rhymes for orange.
Not only that, but my dish is empty of porridge.
You&#8217;ve heard that girl before, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1286&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>“Off with their heads!” Rhetorical Images of Heads of States</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Off with their heads!” shouts Carroll’s Queen in Wonderland. Just so, Platon has beheaded them all in “Portraits of Power,” in the December 7 New Yorker.
The head of state is not a whole person, but a symbol, but of what?
“The king is an erection of the body politic,” Norman O. Brown says in Love’s Body. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1268&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Twosome Twiminds: News from the Stroke Club – “Who Are We?”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During our stroke, we picked up the Takemine to test our left hand, self-diagnosing our condition. We noticed our left hand with interest; it formed the shape of the chord we had asked for, but not on the frets and strings we wanted. The result was discord, the guitar sounding badly out of tune. We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1261&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Camus and The Myth of Syllabus</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“One must imagine Sisyphus happy,” Camus says, in The Myth of Sisyphus.
So too, one imagines a happy student, book in hand, pushing the syllabus up another class – happy because in the push he writes his own syllabus, for, as Rene Char said, “No bird has the heart to sing in a thicket of questions.”
“Expression [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1252&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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