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Posted on October 11, 2005 in Roundup

This roundup covers the period from 3 October 2005 to 11 October 2005.

My trip to Fort Worth interrupted my usual observation of the net, so my roundup is on the short side this week. Because I am bipolar and I was enroute to a bipolar convention, I tended to pay the most attention to articles about brain disorders and mental illness. Harriet Miers presented a quandary for many bloggers on both the progressive and retrograde sides of the spectrum: just what was she all about? While I have said, tongue-in-cheek, that I might endorse her if it makes the retrogrades mad, I must honestly state that I have no opinion.

As for the rest of the news, bloggers focused on issues like parent power and the outster of James V. Bennett; national music programming; species die-off is happening more quickly than we thought; who owns your uterus; cronyism in the White House; illegalizing reproduction; the Catholic Church admits that some parts of the Bible are untrue; intelligent design; Tom Delay may face life in prison; just how does one expose corruption by protecting the corrupt?; torture; O’Reilly smears Donahue and Moore; religion and politics; is there finally justice in Guatemala?; does Bush believe that God speaks to him?; is Harriet Miers a closeted feminist?; Patrick Fitzgerald’s strategy; a new pterosaur; what happens when real scientists examine reality; Wendell Berry calls for realism in reading the Bible; remembering John Lennon; the discovery of Odysseus’s tomb; a sad, demoralizing spectacle; publicizing the private; Traitorgate; freeing prisoners alphabetically; is quarantine a good idea?; ignoble prizes; the folly of borders; American strangeness; and Gross National Happiness.

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