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		<title>Getting to &#8230; The ONE</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/getting-to-the-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iowa]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[…. Difficult as it is for republican supporters to watch in 2012, this is the way our political process is supposed to work. With even a shred of intellectual honesty , the Democrat party and the media would have to admit that had the current effort taken place in 2008, it is more likely that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=659&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Education Pedigrees</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/11/29/education-pedigrees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>basicman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elite education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MIT]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A recent dinner with old college friends led to an interesting conversation about education and academic pedigree ….  I said very little. ….My conclusion: an educational pedigree is best served at Happy Hour where most lies are told and curricula vitae are swapped. But when people head for the door are they secretly wondering if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=652&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JoePa: The King is Dead, Long Live the King</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/joepa-the-king-is-dead-long-live-the-king/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:32:27 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Paterno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life after coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moral and ethical failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Penn State]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[… In essence, the institution and profession that Paterno has loved and been loyal to for close to half a century has issued him something akin to a death sentence. Something inside me believes that Coach Paterno has been dying a slow death since he received his first inkling that Jerry Sandusky had a problem. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=647&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Reality</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/10/24/occupy-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Douglass Schoen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Wall Street]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[socialist Progressives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Zucotti Park]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having given the civil dissidents of the ‘Occupation’ a few weeks coverage under the watchful eye of the new media, it seems like a good time to weigh in. I’ve taken the time to read media accounts from all perspectives, listened to participant interviews, and routinely visited (and actually joined) the Occupy Wall Street website. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=641&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Beautiful Sight</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/a-beautiful-sight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[911]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A beautful sight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Delta Air Lines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a beautiful thing last night. As the airplane lifted off the runway at JFK just after sunset I could see above the buildings of Brooklyn all the way to Manhattan. There in the distance was a tower of light in what has been for the last 10 years &#8211; a dark hole. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=638&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good News for American Politics, Seriously &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/09/29/good-news-for-american-politics-seriously/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bachman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gingrich]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Obama vs. Gingrich debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presidential politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Romney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Santorum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our bitter political partisanship actually has a silver lining as the 2012 presidential campaign approaches. If one can overcome the hyperbole and spin associated with either parties’ ideology as reported by the opposition and dismiss how the talking heads analyze every piece of polling data – the 2012 race will provide the most disparate choice [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=633&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Buffett, Enough Already</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/08/30/mr-buffett-enough-already/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gifts to the United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvey Golub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tax policy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UCal Merced Campus republicans]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Buffett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Is anyone besides me getting a little weary of the unsolicited tax advice coming from Warren Buffett? What a relief to read that some of his contemporaries are. Harvey Golub, former CEO of American Express airs it out in his Wall Street Journal piece as he breaks down the fact and fiction of Buffett’s assertions. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=628&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Could Possibly Go Wrong?</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fiscal discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hostage takers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immigration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[liberalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NLRB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tea party. terrorists]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One would assume that nobody likes the toxic atmosphere our civil discourse has taken, except for media talking heads that make their money throwing fuel on social fires. So, I propose a hypothetical exercise. Since outspoken and important folks from the VP on down have taken to categorizing a certain American political group (read: Tea [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=623&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Parts: Another Airline Story</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/moving-parts-another-airline-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 12:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>basicman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline delays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flight crews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flyersrights.org]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kate hanni]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving parts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[passenger bill of rights]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 94 degrees outside, the ship is full of hot people, the air conditioning cannot keep up, thunderstorms are moving in and we’re #43 in line for take-off. It’s rush hour at JFK and I’m the Captain taking 172 people non-stop to San Francisco. We have 5 ½ hours of real estate in front of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=618&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Frustrated and Fed Up</title>
		<link>http://basicman.wordpress.com/2011/07/18/frustrated-and-fed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AARP]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Casey Anthony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cultural disintegration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drowning POTUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DSK]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feckless UN]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mad as hell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Good Morning, Doctor” … that’s where I am right now &#8211; frustrated, upset, and fed up &#8230; I’m mad … I’m irked … I’m outraged … I’m over … I’m affronted … I’m sick of … Writing when you’re mad doesn’t usually convey much of anything positive and it surely doesn’t inspire anyone who reads [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=basicman.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5019829&amp;post=613&amp;subd=basicman&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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