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	<description>Wesley R. Elsberry&#039;s personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in.</description>
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		<title>Not as Simple as They Think</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/10/22/not-as-simple-as-they-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2011 10:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The editors of the Tulsa World think that Lawmakers should adopt stronger wildlife laws. That&#8217;s fair enough in light of the tragedy in Ohio where exotic predators like lions, tigers, and bears were released by a suicidal keeper. But the editorial&#8217;s structure left much to be desired, in my opinion. They do have a good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Educating Casey on Publishing</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/09/16/educating-casey-on-publishing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve known for a long time that Casey Luskin has some very odd ideas about what constitutes a technical publication. Casey&#8217;s been good enough to document another deficiency of his in this respect for all to see, but no one is allowed to comment. (I wonder what happened to the Discovery Institute&#8217;s grand experiment in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taxes and Incentives for Job Creation</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/09/14/taxes-and-incentives-for-job-creation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Terry Pratchett novel &#8220;Witches Abroad&#8221;, he sets up an image of &#8220;the optimist&#8217;s fire&#8221;, which he then defines as &#8220;two logs and hope&#8221;. I bring this up because I&#8217;m seeing people who desperately want to be seen as hard-nosed and fiscally responsible proposing the optimist&#8217;s economic booster: tax cuts and hope. Cutting taxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revising Assessment of Clayton Williams, Jr.</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/09/02/revising-assessment-of-clayton-williams-jr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:29:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1990, Clayton Williams, Jr. was in the news a lot as he ran for governor in Texas. His campaign famously imploded over insensitive good-ol&#8217;-boy comments made to a weekend gathering of media. He was rich, but there didn&#8217;t seem to be much else to recommend him. I always thought it odd to go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge Judy Runs a Court of Equity?</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/08/11/judge-judy-runs-a-court-of-equity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a &#8220;Judge Judy&#8221; video clip being circulated where Judge Judy is deciding a case over unpaid rent. A young woman is the plaintiff, and is seeking several months of unpaid rent from a young man who shared an apartment with her. The young man is deeply confused about the concept of government aid for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casey Luskin Doesn&#8217;t Do It Again</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/07/22/casey-luskin-doesnt-do-it-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 05:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Casey Luskin has an unenviable track record. Pretty much anytime Casey gets going, you can count on him to shoot himself in the foot someway, somehow. Yesterday evening&#8217;s blog post by Casey is no exception. So if Casey has done it again, why would I give the title I have? Well, because of the way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Did Jesus Say to Put a Nail in the Tire?</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/07/19/where-did-jesus-say-to-put-a-nail-in-the-tire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2011 04:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two vehicles in a Bartram Hall (Zoology department building) parking area at the University of Florida were vandalized, apparently because they displayed &#8220;Darwin fish&#8221; on them. Besides messing up the Darwin fish, the vandal(s) put nails into tires. Hat tip to Prof. Betty Smocovitis, whose hand appears in the linked video. Viewed 125562 times by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Reason: A Ouija Board?</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/07/07/good-reason-a-ouija-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:05:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an essay by Randal Rauser at &#8220;Christian Post&#8221; offering what&#8217;s termed a rebuttal to a criticism of an earlier essay. Rauser seems to be a run-of-the-mill &#8220;intelligent design&#8221; creationism (IDC) cheerleader. Rauser defends Dembski&#8217;s ideas early on. Joseph H. Axell posted a long rebuttal in the comment section of my article &#8220;Unintelligent arguments against [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Magical Mathematical Metrics: Intelligent Design Hijinks</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/05/26/magical-mathematical-metrics-intelligent-design-hijinks/</link>
		<comments>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/05/26/magical-mathematical-metrics-intelligent-design-hijinks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 23:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over at the &#8220;Uncommon Descent&#8221; blog, poster &#8220;niwrad&#8221; decided to dispute claims of high sequence similarity between human and chimpanzee genomes. &#8220;niwrad&#8221; posted a statistical test of human/chimp genome comparisons in September, 2010, and a follow-up post this week comparing two human genomes using the metric from the earlier post. These were brought to my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Synthese Editors-in-Chief Respond to a Petition</title>
		<link>http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2011/05/14/the-synthese-editors-in-chief-respond-to-a-petition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2011 04:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wesley R. Elsberry</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The main petition regarding the Synthese disclaimer published in the January, 2011 issue was signed by 470 academics. It asked for a retraction of the disclaimer and additional information about the circumstances that led the Editors-in-Chief (EiC) to include it. The EiC have now provided a response to the main petition. I received no direct [...]]]></description>
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