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	<title>The Walrus Blog &#187; Act Like A Man</title>
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	<description>Fearless. Thoughtful. Witty. Canadian. And Opinionated.</description>
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		<title>Me, Barack, and Irene</title>
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Well, I held off my formal endorsement because I didn&#8217;t want to be accused of attempting to influence a foreign election, but you might as well know I was pulling for Obama.
And you also might as well know that the reason I&#8217;ve been gone for a week (and the reason you&#8217;ll be waiting a few [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/11/07/me-barack-and-irene/</link>
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		<title>The meaning of kids</title>
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On Thursday, I wrote about happiness and misery as they relate to children, a subject on my mind already because I have a two-year-old son and am expecting another baby any day (or hour) now, brought into focus by a section Paul Bloom’s essay “First Person Plural” in this month’s Atlantic that outlines how deluded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/25/the-meaning-of-kids/</link>
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		<title>Parenting makes you miserable. Discuss.</title>
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Once upon a time, Harper&#8217;s was my go-to magazine of ideas. Over the past year or two, I&#8217;ve found myself skimming it more and reading it less, ho-humming as I set down a story partway through and feeling preemptive (though not preventative) guilt at knowing I&#8217;ll never bother reading the rest of it, earnestly important [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/23/parenting-makes-you-miserable-discuss/</link>
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		<title>Equal opportunity exploitation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the subject of Katherine Leyton&#8217;s post on the sexist, racist horror of making sex toys out of political candidates: they&#8217;ve done it to old white guys too. Is no one safe from the novelty-porn-gag menace?
(Given the the way the names Dick Cheney and George Bush arouse set off involuntary reactions in the frontal schoolyardabellum [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/22/equal-opportunity-exploitation/</link>
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		<title>He Thinks He&#8217;s A Man, But He&#8217;s Only A Guy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Ask Like A Man blog returns with a post on John McCain: the manlier candidate?

A hundred years ago, during the U.S. Democratic primary, when Hillary Clinton still seemed to be actively attempting to take a flamethrower to her party’s chance to win the election, I debated posting something about the various candidates and how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/10/19/he-thinks-he%e2%80%99s-a-man-but-he%e2%80%99s-only-a-guy/</link>
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		<title>You Know What They Say About Absence</title>
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So are you fond enough of me yet? Regular posting will resume very shortly. In the meantime, I give you one of the greatest scenes in American cinema.
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		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/09/14/you-know-what-they-say-about-abscence/</link>
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		<title>Never Do This With a Woman</title>
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I was reading Tracy Clark-Flory&#8217;s &#8220;In defense of casual sex&#8221; over at Salon, about which I may have more to say over the weekend depending on how sun-stroked I wind up taking my kid to the beach.
But her third-last sentence, unrelated to the general topic of the essay, is that her current boyfriend is remarkable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/08/01/one-thing-you-should-never-do-with-a-woman/</link>
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		<title>The Girls in Their Summer Clothes</title>
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Here&#8217;s an observation from the annals of the obvious: everywhere you go, strangers talk about the weather. And if you live in Toronto, where I do, they always talk about how absolutely crappy the weather is or recently has been or will be in the immediate future. The winters are long and slushy, with winds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/24/the-girls-in-their-summer-clothes/</link>
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		<title>Time Slips Away, Leaves You With Nothin&#8217; Mister</title>
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In the August issue of Esquire (on newsstands now, but not yet online), there&#8217;s a story  by Brian Mockenhaupt called &#8220;The Tunnel,&#8221; in which inmate Joe Hoffman, encountering sand under the concrete floor of his cell while attempting to procure his freedom, pretty much sums up the quiet desperation of adult men everywhere:
&#8220;Its golden-brown luster [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/07/11/time-slips-away-leaves-you-with-nothin-mister/</link>
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		<title>All in your head</title>
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I just finished reading David Giffels&#8217;s All the Way Home, which I&#8217;ll soon be reviewing for a different publication. It&#8217;s a memoir of a man who, with his pregnant wife and infant child, buys a falling-down mansion and begins trying to make it a home, with minimal help from contractors and maximal stress on his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2008/06/25/all-in-your-head/</link>
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