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		<title>Review: Bastard out of Carolina (a novel)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jun 2011 17:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just reviewed this novel for LibraryThing. Five stars. I am in awe of this book. It was given to me but sat on my shelf for years, through at least one house move, until I decided this month that &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/bastard-out-of-carolina/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2149&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>English from the treetops</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a 400-year-old verse that I consider ideal for demonstrating change in the English language. It’s “The lowest trees have tops,” by a nobody called Edward Dyer. As poetry, it operates at about the level of forgettable pop music. It’s &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/01/13/english-from-the-treetops/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2124&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACT for America has an agenda for Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 04:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ACT for America, an activist group opposing “radical Islam,”1 is pushing a ten-point agenda for the 112th Congress. Let’s take a look. 1. Banning shariah: “Reaffirm the U.S. Constitution as the supreme law of the land, and oppose the application &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/act-for-america/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2118&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to the White House</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 00:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I cannot sleep, I cannot eat. I’m scared to walk to the bathroom because I’m afraid they will hunt me down.… I’m not the same. — An American citizen trapped in Kuwait Here is my letter: Sir, please intervene to &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/letter-to-the-white-house/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2116&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t call me “an” historian</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I object to using the determiner an instead of a in front of the word historian. It seems pretentious and unnatural. I believe almost nobody says “an historian,” yet I read it all the time. I’ll grant that some English &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/11/22/not-an-historian/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2101&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A list of history blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 18:17:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something called History Masters just published a Top 50 list of blogs about American history. [link] I only knew about roughly one-tenth of them. A notable gap in the list is the excellent Civil War Memory. It definitely belongs among &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/a-list-of-history-blogs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2100&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Miscellany</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:32:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s a lot, so I’ll resort to bullet points. I spoke at another Ignite event, this time performing “Ignite karaoke.” That’s where you’re presented with a PowerPoint deck, sight unseen, and must weave a presentation out of it. I’ve renewed &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/miscellany/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2097&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giving an Ignite talk</title>
		<link>http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/giving-an-ignite-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m on the program for this evening&#8217;s Ignite Birmingham at a downtown restaurant called Matthews Bar and Grill. My topic is Islamic finance and the prospect of starting a credit union in Birmingham to offer fair credit to &#8220;unbanked&#8221; people &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/giving-an-ignite-talk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2089&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>America’s dashboard GPS of war</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sad to say, this earlier post still applies. It’s all I have to say about l’affaire McChrystal et Petraeus. I’ve read more than one news item describing how drivers sometimes place too much faith in their GPS navigation devices. Guided &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/america%e2%80%99s-dashboard-gps-of-war-2/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2081&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, I WILL boycott BP</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 19:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s been a lot of chatter lately about how boycotting BP is an empty gesture that only harms local retailers. Maybe so, but I’m doing it anyway. Here’s why. Knowing what BP has done to the Gulf of Mexico, I &#8230; <a href="http://alarob.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/yes-i-will-boycott-bp/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=alarob.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4013326&amp;post=2076&amp;subd=alarob&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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