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		<title>On taking the bus at 4:50AM</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write this, oddly enough, while sitting on a train taking me from Ottawa to Toronto, with a number of short stops in between.  This is the first time I&#8217;ve been on a train trip in living memory, and the experience has been uneventful so far.  The window beside me reveals a blood-red sky, interrupted [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2262&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Return to the source</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In four hours I&#8217;ll be boarding a train that will take me back to London ON for the first time since the completion of my MA at the University of Western Ontario in the fall of 2008.  It&#8217;s not that I&#8217;ve had no reason to go back since then &#8211; the people I like are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2258&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An unsung heroine</title>
		<link>http://nickmilne.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/an-unsung-heroine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC is reporting the discovery that a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry &#8211; a young woman named Mabel Elliott &#8211; was instrumental in breaking up a German spy ring in 1915.  The enterprising chemist was working as a censor for the War Ministry in London and intercepted letters sent by an &#8220;American&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2254&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Macrone Conspiracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was originally produced as a comment on a post at Prof. Holger Syme&#8217;s excellent blog, but I&#8217;m pleased enough with it to reproduce it here.  A commenter on Prof. Syme&#8217;s ongoing series of posts about the absurdity of the Shakespearean authorship debate humourously extended the idea to other works of literature &#8211; in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2251&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Against Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 08:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[I've decided to eschew my usual film review format because this isn't really a review so much as it is a revilement.  I do not think anyone should see Roland Emmerich's Anonymous (2011), of which the best that may be said is that it proves even an absurd fiasco can be boring.  It's also been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2240&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Holding Pattern</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jun 2011 18:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog (and its author) will be on hiatus until September of 2011, at which point both will return in slightly altered form.  An actual plan has been conceived, for once, rather than a slapdash effort motivated by the impulse of the moment, so with luck things will actually work out as intended rather than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2237&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More equal than others</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a note to certain (not all) atheist/progressive/liberal/etc. ideologues who have in their anguish warned against some sort of impending theocracy in one or both of the North American countries. Putting aside the fact that there is no such impending theocracy, it&#8217;s worth knowing that not all theocracies, however inadequately described, are created equal.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2234&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Laid Plans</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Best Laid Plans Terry Fallis. Emblem; 2008. 336p.  First reading. There are many things that I think bring my country (Canada, to be exact) into a state of ill-repute, but I don&#8217;t often throw around the phrase &#8220;national disgrace&#8221; in describing them.  I don&#8217;t intend to do so now, either, but The Best Laid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2230&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cavalry Went Through</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Feb 2011 10:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Cross-posted from There Are Real Things; yes, this means I'm regularly writing again - and with colleagues, at that!  More stuff will gradually be posted here, too, as I get back into the swing of it.] The Cavalry Went Through Bernard Newman Gollancz; 1930 . 288p.  First reading. While poring over Cyril Falls&#8217; immensely useful [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2225&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taking up the reins</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 07:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Milne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it&#8217;s a new year, and a new situation in terms of how my time has to be distributed these days.  The last four months saw me having to teach a university course (now happily concluded) and prepare my thesis proposal (almost done), but the next four will see me reduced once more to the lowly status [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=nickmilne.wordpress.com&#038;blog=261545&#038;post=2217&#038;subd=nickmilne&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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