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		<title>My So-Called Earth</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[a god&#8217;s story One millennium, with less than normal to do, I again visited one of the most peculiar planets I have ever created, known by its most destructive inhabitants as Earth. I am an amoral god. I create worlds, I create life for no specific purpose other than to see what happens, to satisfy <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2011/11/13/my-so-called-earth/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3613&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fiction &amp; Criticism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>deluge of the bankers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 21:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[historical the cash deluge each and every year more huge officials preach and claim to care emotions trite and tripe they share they harken to the mayflower they mention ellis island too they pose in patriotic power and fling around clichés half true they lie from shining sea to sea and steal vast wealth from <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2011/01/05/deluge-of-the-bankers/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3528&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>StrikeTube</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 21:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy Shyt Day I went to school the other day to read a book to my daughter&#8217;s first grade class, and you know it&#8217;s almost Christmas and the school is very careful to call it the holiday season instead of, you know, the main Christian party time, or the Jewish festival of whatever, or the <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2011/01/01/striketube/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3517&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Life in the Wartagon</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 14:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By 2010, at latest, official life in the United States of America, as in the rest of the privileged world, had devolved into a circus freak show. The only officials and educated people in the world who did not know the great corruption of ruling circles did not wish to know. One had to commit <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/10/16/life-in-the-wartagon/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3497&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duckage 13</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/06/06/duckage-13/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 06:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It changed once again, the look of the President of the USA on his 24/7 reality show channel. He emerged from his White House bedroom with his wife on arm, cloaked as the grim reaper, and she too, each holding a scythe in their outside hand, but now with the added twist of a red-white-and-blue <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/06/06/duckage-13/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3487&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duckage 12</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[And then everything changed. The President of the USA began to act human, rather than only try to sound like he was human, by rhetoric. The shift was so uncanny and complete that there were those who said this was not the President at all but some imposter, as if some creature from outer space <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/06/01/duckage-12/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3480&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Duckotage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FIRST 13 EPISODES &#8220;Men confuse heaven&#8217;s radiant stars with a duck&#8217;s footprint in the mud.&#8221; –Victor Hugo, Les Misérables DUCKAGE 1 Once upon a time in a land very, very nearby, a revolution occurred in a single masterstroke. It began not with a bang nor a whimper but with a laugh. It happened like this: <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/06/01/the-duckotage/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3365&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duckage 11</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/27/duckage-11/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 18:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No! No! No! I am not a killer!&#8221; screamed the President of the USA, and this time he woke up, staggered out of bed, stumbled out of the bedroom to the nearest TV. He brought up the People&#8217;s Hour President&#8217;s 24/7 reality channel and saw himself fully guised as the Grim Reaper, scythe in hand, <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/27/duckage-11/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3476&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duckage 10</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/23/duckage-10/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 01:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At which point the President begins to lose his mind &#8220;I am not the Grim Reaper!&#8221; screamed the President of the USA. &#8220;Oh, but you are,&#8221; said the revolutionary duck. &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we prove it? Pick a spot on Earth, any spot. Oh, hey, I know. How about we head off to the Af-Pak conquest? <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/23/duckage-10/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3467&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Duckage 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 13:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The People&#8217;s Hour Hones Its Tactics Shortly after the People&#8217;s Hour put the Revolutionary duck forever onscreen to correct and spar with the President duck of the USA, the revolutionary group decided it ought to better visually distinguish between the two waddlers. The humble but lively image of the duck fit the popular movement more <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/22/duckage-9/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3438&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DUCKAGE 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 May 2010 04:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Which The President Duck Goes Viral There came a fateful day in the course of the Peoples&#8217; Hour revolution avatared by the orange cartoon duck, when history as it was once known arrived at an ignominious end. The duck ended it. From many ends are great beginnings sprung, and so it was for the <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/13/duckage-8/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3427&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DUCKAGE 7</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/12/duckage-7/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 05:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TV viewers all across the globe heard a dull thwacking as the revolutionary duck recently returned from the Gulf Oil Blowout continued to spit gob after glob of oil tar at the blackened camera lens. Finally the duck choked out a final gob of crude. It picked up between its wings a bottled cleaning solvent <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/12/duckage-7/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3412&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DUCKAGE 6</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/11/duckage-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 13:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whereupon The Duck Returns From The Gulf Oil Blowout The Duck appeared on all the TV screens in all the world drenched in black goo. &#8220;My finned and feathered friends in the Gulf of Mexico south of Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, and west of Florida are not doing so well these days.&#8221; The duck explained how <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/05/11/duckage-6/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3404&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fok Killing</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/11/fok-killing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Apr 2010 16:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a story I can scarcely bear to tell. It involves my childhood, my father&#8217;s mistress, and my great aunt. It&#8217;s like a dream I can scarcely bear. There was precious little great about my great aunt. She had a habit, quite noxious, of pacing in little circles in her living room while smoking <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/11/fok-killing/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3370&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Would Not Do To Say [full article]</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/10/what-would-not-do-to-say-full-article/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Apr 2010 05:01:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WHAT WOULD NOT DO TO SAY THE “CLEANSING” OF GEORGE ORWELL A Real Shove from Above In many ways, George Orwell’s greatest book is Homage to Catalonia, which documents his direct participation in the Spanish Revolution (civil war), a great book of a crucial revolution that is essentially elided from James Wood’s sociopolitical take on <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/10/what-would-not-do-to-say-full-article/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3416&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq War Fiction</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/06/iraq-war-fiction-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The good and the bad, and the in-between &#8211; an incomplete list of Iraq and Afghanistan War fiction, 2003 &#8211; 2009: NOVELS / GRAPHIC NOVELS / PLAYS / VIDEO, FILMS, MOVIE IRAQ WAR NOVELS: Story of the Sand &#8211; Mark B. Pickering Lost Boys &#8211; James Miller Zubaida&#8217;s Window &#8211; Iqbal Al-Qazwini The Ghost &#8211; Robert <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/04/06/iraq-war-fiction-3/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=469&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hurt Locker: The Empire&#8217;s Best?</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/03/10/the-hurt-locker-the-empires-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:12:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Bady at The Valve calls 2010 Academy Award winning movie for best picture, The Hurt Locker, &#8220;a cinema of truthiness,&#8221; of a kind. In my view, the main truthiness (truthiness being a sort of refined Orwellianism) is that &#8220;The Hurt Locker&#8221; is a biased cinema of retail violence, rather than an illuminating cinema of <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/03/10/the-hurt-locker-the-empires-best/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3356&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bolano and present and future of the novel continued</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/16/bolano-and-present-and-future-of-the-novel-continued/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 16:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[xposted: Apart from local diversity, which is important or vital, I see far more similarities across European, American (North and South), African, and Asian novels than differences. (Though maybe I’ve read too selectively.) It seems there’s more variance within place than across it. (I think science has determined that the same is true for race.) <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/16/bolano-and-present-and-future-of-the-novel-continued/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3349&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright present and future of the novel = Bolano? Not so much</title>
		<link>http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/15/bright-present-and-future-of-the-novel-bolano-not-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adapted from comments at The Valve: Have you read 2666? Compare your thoughts and feelings about it to an equally long novel. First, you may see more the mishmash of 2666. Second you may see what a wheel spinner it also is. That’s what I see. What Bolano has going for him is that he <a href="http://apracticalpolicy.org/2010/02/15/bright-present-and-future-of-the-novel-bolano-not-so-much/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=apracticalpolicy.org&amp;blog=189314&amp;post=3344&amp;subd=apragmaticpolicy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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