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<opml version="2.0">	<head>		<title>17.opml</title>		<dateCreated>Sat, 25 Aug 2007 21:39:56 GMT</dateCreated>		<dateModified>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:52:41 GMT</dateModified>		<ownerName>Tom Morris</ownerName>		<ownerEmail>http://blogs.opml.org/mail/tommorris</ownerEmail>		<expansionState></expansionState>		<vertScrollState>1</vertScrollState>		<windowTop>340</windowTop>		<windowLeft>10</windowLeft>		<windowBottom>779</windowBottom>		<windowRight>761</windowRight>		</head>	<body>		<outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/2007/03/days_of_our_liv.html&quot;&gt;Thaddeus Tremayne&lt;/a&gt;: &quot;I shall consider quitting [smoking] if and when we ever have a national No Nagging, Preaching, Hectoring, Finger-Wagging, Pecksniffing, Condescending, Nannying Or Sanctimonious Sermonising Just Bugger Off And Mind Your Own Fucking Business Day&quot;" created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:12:12 GMT"/>		<outline text="Purity and integrity - up the butt!" created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:25:11 GMT">			<outline text="My news aggregator pinged this morning with an absolutely mind-blowing story from - where else? - the United States' population of government-supported crazies, the Evangelicals." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:27:41 GMT"/>			<outline text="What are they up to now? Well, it's called a &quot;Father-Daughter Purity Ball&quot; and it sounds like a recipe for a really, &lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt; fucked-up love and sex life in order to please Gawd Almighty." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:28:53 GMT"/>			<outline text="Here is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://generationsoflight.myicontrol.com/generationsoflight/index.cfm&quot;&gt;example of such an event&lt;/a&gt; (also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://parenting.ivillage.com/mom/0,,bcqrn02q,00.html&quot;&gt;this news article&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://community.livejournal.com/atheism/1211667.html&quot;&gt;the LJ post that pointed me to both&lt;/a&gt;). Basically, the idea is that dad takes the eleven year old daughter out on a date to a fancy formal do and they both pledge to 'purity' in public - the daughter pledges to remain chaste until marriage and daddy pledges to &quot;cover my daughter as her authority and protection in the area of purity&quot; (and also to be &quot;the high priest in my home&quot;)." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:29:49 GMT"/>			<outline text="The practical consequences of this expression of submission and authority seem pretty clear for the girl - no fucking. I'm not sure whether the 'protection' offered by the father means that if she does get 'taken' by some evildoer who wants to engage in a base, carnal desire, his duty is to then go and batter the poor sod over the head with a baseball bat. We'll presumably have to wait a few years for this experiment in evangelical psychology to pay off with randy young men ending up in the emergency ward." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:33:13 GMT"/>			<outline text="Just in case you thought that these people are sexist nutcases, read &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dakotavoice.com/200701/20070115_1.html&quot;&gt;this article on &quot;Integrity Balls&quot;&lt;/a&gt;. It's kind of the same but with mothers and sons." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:35:42 GMT"/>			<outline text="Of course, the outcome of all this insanity is that if you want to get it on with an evangelical Christian teenager, the best route is to avoid the vagina. Surveys have shown that those who take abstinence or 'purity' pledges tend to engage in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=21606&quot;&gt;more sexual experimentation&lt;/a&gt; - oral and anal, specifically. I'm waiting for the stories of &quot;Trainee Lesbians for Christ&quot;." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:38:24 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'd love to hear what some of my feminist readers think of daddy-daughter dates where the unspoken dinner discussion is &quot;you better not have sex&quot;. This kind of nonsense makes &lt;i&gt;my&lt;/i&gt; pledge to never get married even stronger. Why support an institution that is used as a bloody great big manipulation tool for crazy people to force their kids not to make their own decisions?" created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:45:35 GMT"/>			<outline text="I'll make a prediction. Next they'll be making panties that send a text message with a GPS location to daddy if you take them off." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:55:38 GMT"/>			</outline>		<outline text="For Tube Tracker users" created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:21:22 GMT">			<outline text="I'm sorry some of you have had problems with the Twitter Tube Tracker recently - specifically users of &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/tubepiccadil&quot;&gt;tubepiccadil&lt;/a&gt;, who've been getting an absolute torrent of updates all day about the planned engineering works." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:21:29 GMT"/>			<outline text="I've modified my script to pull in the Atom feed of the relevant Tube line for each affected line and compares the last entry with the entry it's about to send out. This is something that Twitter ought to be doing automagically but seems to have stopped doing." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:47:14 GMT"/>			<outline text="I also ran across some input problems I was having with the XML which I've fixed. This may have been stopping some lines getting updates." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:50:44 GMT"/>			<outline text="I do apologise for all the spam that subscribers have had to put up with. Hopefully, it should all be fixed now. If you get any more problems, don't hesitate to contact me. Thanks to &lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/LloydDavis&quot;&gt;LloydDavis&lt;/a&gt; for the ping about it." created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:49:35 GMT"/>			<outline text="This is another case that proves that software is never &lt;i&gt;done&lt;/i&gt;. It also demonstrates that one shouldn't rely on someone else's software to work in the same way on different days. &quot;;-&gt;&quot;" created="Sat, 17 Mar 2007 14:52:12 GMT"/>			</outline>		</body>	</opml>