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	<title>Ocellated &#187; Culture</title>
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	<description>A blog on my latest adventures, pictures, and travels</description>
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		<title>Ignorance as the Greatest Virtue?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an article up on Fox News by John Gibson that&#8217;s just striking for it&#8217;s tone. It&#8217;s not the kind of ignorance that one just stumbles across in life. No, it&#8217;s the kind of ignorance that one must work really hard to cultivate, waking up each morning to seek out opportunities to display this level [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/09/05/ignorance-as-the-greatest-virtue/</link>
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		<title>A Rant Against Bear Hunting and Country Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve got a bit of confession to make. I hate country music and country musicians &#8212; with a passion. Is that fair? Probably not. Am I biased? I&#8217;d have to say so. Am I committing the cardinal sin of stereotyping a large group of people based on the actions of a few? Guilty as charged.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/08/18/a-rant-against-bear-hunting-and-country-music/</link>
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		<title>The United States &#8212; Smarter than Turkey.Dumber than Slovenia, Estonia, and Latvia.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A study reported by National Geographic News places the U.S. near the very end of a shameful list.

Yes, only Turkey rejects evolution more than the United States.
The reasons are what you&#8217;d expect &#8212; religion &#8212; but even I was surprised by the low percentage. Only 14% of U.S. adults thought that evolution was &#8220;definitely true.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/08/11/the-united-states-smarter-than-turkeydumber-than-slovenia-estonia-and-latvia/</link>
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		<title>The Simpsons Do Evolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Had I been reading the various blogs I usually skim over, I would have known in advance that the Simpsons last night was on evolution. As it turned out, my wife and I walked in the door from a long weekend (she graduated!) and turned on the TV and just happened to notice what the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/05/15/the-simpsons-do-evolution/</link>
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		<title>Sweet Sweet Justice</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think a lot of us have a strong sense of justice. And that&#8217;s just one of the reasons we enjoy the Olympics so much. Summer or winter, we love watching men and women who&#8217;ve worked so hard and dedicated their lives to pursuing the sport they&#8217;re passionate about. It&#8217;s only fair when we they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/02/25/sweet-sweet-justice/</link>
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		<title>Super Bowl Sunday &#8212; Who Cares?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The super bowl&#8217;s today. Who&#8217;s playing? Why should I care?
I&#8217;m going birding this afternoon. We have a report of Long-eared Owls on a ranch up north.
Update: The trip was a success. We had approximately a dozen Long-eared Owls, and got excellent looks at them. Getting pictures proved to be much harder. (I don&#8217;t really have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/02/05/super-bowl-sunday-who-cares/</link>
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		<title>Happy Marmota monax Day!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[They say he&#8217;s predicting six more weeks of winter.

It&#8217;s 70 degrees outside right now, and I&#8217;m not buying it for one minute&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/02/02/happy-marmota-monax-day/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;They Tried To Teach My Baby Science&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a good laugh that appeared in The Onion last October. Just a little something to brighten up your Friday morning. The cover is just perfect satire on the way some in our culture are acting towards science. I still keep laughing at the picture, even months after seeing it for the first time.
Also, be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/01/20/they-tried-to-teach-my-baby-science/</link>
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		<title>One Man to Save Them All</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not speaking of my Christian faith&#8230;
The fifth season of 24 starts this evening, with a two hour premiere tonight and a two hour show tomorrow. Jack Bauer will once again strive valiantly to save the world (or at least America) from evil doers of every stripe.
I consider most TV to be a complete [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/01/15/one-man-to-save-them-all/</link>
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		<title>The Walt Disneyfication of Nature</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For a long time, I&#8217;ve rather disliked the subtle messages that we communicate to our kids through kid movies. Nature and it&#8217;s relationship to humans are shown to be a block party. All the creatures hang out, the rules of ecology are simply non-existant, and nature is portrayed in a surreal way. Over Christmas I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ocellated.com/2006/01/09/the-walt-disneyfication-of-nature/</link>
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