<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208</id><updated>2011-08-06T12:45:40.313-11:00</updated><title type='text'>Bowditch's Ghost</title><subtitle type='html'>Practical Navigation of Politics, Current Events, Sports, Science, Arts and the Good Life.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>7</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-112026830929985384</id><published>2005-07-01T14:37:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-07-01T14:38:29.303-11:00</updated><title type='text'>Luther Vandross, RIP</title><content type='html'>Rest in peace, &lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/01/AR2005070100305.html/"&gt;Luther Vandross&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;Here and Now&lt;/i&gt; was the music for our first dance as a married couple.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-112026830929985384?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/112026830929985384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=112026830929985384' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/112026830929985384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/112026830929985384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/07/luther-vandross-rip.html' title='Luther Vandross, RIP'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-112026299828803971</id><published>2005-07-01T13:08:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-07-01T13:09:58.293-11:00</updated><title type='text'>Christopher A. Roach, ChickenHawk</title><content type='html'>Here's attorney-at-law, re-converted Catholic, and chickenhawk, Christopher Roach on why he won't serve:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; Nothing's enough for Jade Gold. It's pointless to get into details. (LASIK wasn't around when I wanted in, and I'm 30 now and have made choices I'm quite happy with.) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As for CPA jobs, what the fuck do you know idiot?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT FUCKING BRANCH/MOS/YEARS WERE YOU IN THE MILITARY YOU IGNORANT FUCKING CUM-DUMPSTER EXCUSE OF HUMAN SHIT THAT THINKS NOTHING OF INSULTING THE PATRIOTISM OF OTHERS AND LACKS THE HONOR AND DECENCY TO ADMIT WHEN HE HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE WRONG? You basically said I was a pussy and Answerman called you out. A FUCKING TACTICAL RETREAT MIGHT MAKE SENSE HERE TO SOMEONE WHO HAD MORE MILITARY EXPERIENCE THAN CLEANING LATRINES ON A MERCHANT MARINE VESSEL!&lt;br /&gt;Roach | Homepage | 06.30.05 - 7:09 pm | #&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, given that LASIK™ eye surgery's been around about 10 years and that other forms of corrective laser eye surgery has been used since the mid-1980s--I'd have to say Christopher A. Roach, Esq. (ChickenHawk) doesn't have much of a case.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-112026299828803971?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/112026299828803971/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=112026299828803971' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/112026299828803971'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/112026299828803971'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/07/christopher-roach-chickenhawk.html' title='Christopher A. Roach, ChickenHawk'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-112000384135226004</id><published>2005-06-28T13:06:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-06-28T13:10:41.356-11:00</updated><title type='text'>W's Speech</title><content type='html'>Everybody clap harder for the &lt;a href="http://www.thepoorman.net/2005/06/29/poor-man-exclusive-must-credit-the-poor-man/"&gt;Iraqi Freedom Fairy.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-112000384135226004?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/112000384135226004/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=112000384135226004' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/112000384135226004'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/112000384135226004'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/06/ws-speech.html' title='W&apos;s Speech'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-111979439363493182</id><published>2005-06-26T02:49:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-06-26T03:01:07.136-11:00</updated><title type='text'>Instadunce</title><content type='html'>James Wolcott's takedown of &lt;a href="http://jameswolcott.com/archives/2005/06/glenn_reynolds.php"&gt;Instadunce&lt;/a&gt; is not to be missed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In response to Glenn Reynold's "An armed society is a polite society," Wolcott takes no prisoners:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Afghanistan. Yemen. The badlands of northern Pakistan (Bin Laden Country). The Sunni Triangle. Beautiful downtown Mogadishu. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do these regions and cultures leap out at you as polite societies? Places where you could safely stroll for a nightly constitutional and enjoy vigorous differences of opinion that wouldn't break out in a misunderstanding between AK-47s?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-111979439363493182?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/111979439363493182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=111979439363493182' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111979439363493182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111979439363493182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/06/instadunce.html' title='Instadunce'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-111964893394494350</id><published>2005-06-24T10:33:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-06-24T10:38:22.076-11:00</updated><title type='text'>Why UNC-Chapel Hill Should Not Be On Your List of Colleges</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.rantingprofs.com/rantingprofs/2005/06/not_so_open_bor.html"&gt;Ranting Prof Discovers Foreign Visitor in Mexico&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Does this make the overall questions any less relevant? It seems not -- it still demonstrates that there are people on that border who aren't Mexicans, which is pretty much the point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ummmmm...the point is what...where?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-111964893394494350?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/111964893394494350/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=111964893394494350' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111964893394494350'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111964893394494350'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/06/why-unc-chapel-hill-should-not-be-on.html' title='Why UNC-Chapel Hill Should Not Be On Your List of Colleges'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-111922422545196491</id><published>2005-06-19T12:31:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-06-19T12:37:05.453-11:00</updated><title type='text'>David Brooks Phones It In</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://rogerailes.blogspot.com/2005_06_19_rogerailes_archive.html#111920610435461049"&gt;Roger Ailes&lt;/a&gt; catches David Brooks recycling an old puff piece on Dr. Bill "VHS" Frist for the NY Times.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-111922422545196491?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/111922422545196491/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=111922422545196491' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111922422545196491'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111922422545196491'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/06/david-brooks-phones-it-in.html' title='David Brooks Phones It In'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13773208.post-111918635905597412</id><published>2005-06-19T02:05:00.000-11:00</published><updated>2005-06-19T13:08:52.096-11:00</updated><title type='text'>Because Ranting Is Safer Than Enlisting</title><content type='html'>&lt;center&gt;&lt;a href="http://patriotboy.blogspot.com/2005_06_12_patriotboy_archive.html#111908108275568907"&gt;&lt;img hspace="15" src="http://webpages.charter.net/micah/sticker.gif" border="0" vspace="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/center&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/13773208-111918635905597412?l=avademecum.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/feeds/111918635905597412/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=13773208&amp;postID=111918635905597412' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111918635905597412'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/13773208/posts/default/111918635905597412'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://avademecum.blogspot.com/2005/06/because-ranting-is-safer-than_19.html' title='Because Ranting Is Safer Than Enlisting'/><author><name>Natty Bowditch</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16858855079371302279</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
