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		<title>Heated Question</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an unadulterated college football fan. My love for the game has remained steadfast even as my interest in sports in general has sharply waned. For decades I attended Florida State games, as did my brothers and father. We often suffered through intolerable heat and humidity, a family bond of sweat and devotion. Many times [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Acid-Trip Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:58:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reading this morning about Rick Santorum&#8217;s success in the Iowa caucus vote made me wonder whether someone slipped LSD into my coffee. How else to explain a presidential candidate of a major political party doing so well while opposing birth control and advocating that states can make it illegal. Santorum is essentially saying that a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prescribing Political Racism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida urologist Jack Cassell doesn&#8217;t want to treat 69,438,983 Americans. &#8220;If you voted for Obama. . . seek urologic care elsewhere,&#8221; reads a sign outside Cassell&#8217;s office in Mount Dora, reported the Orlando Sentinel, a newspaper I helped edit for much of my adult life. Think of how shunning Obama backers could spread. When I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Propaganda puppets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 03:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time in this country when journalists lived to expose politicians&#8217; lies. Today, however, some let politicians trample the truth unchallenged just when the public most needs the straight story. I&#8217;m speaking of the ludicrous claims that health-care reform proposals would establish &#8220;death panels&#8221; and give the federal government access to peoples&#8217; bank [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Torture Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:21:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Read the words. Listen to the words. Watch them sung. Then ask yourself what have &#8212; or did &#8212; we become? Ask why nearly every major news organization can&#8217;t bring itself to equate waterboarding with &#8220;torture&#8221; when, in fact, the United States executed World War II enemies for the same practice? Maybe Jonathan Mann&#8217;s song, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sealing Up the Gold Mine</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:57:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Oregon]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posting a comment on Facebook has landed me a radio show interview tomorrow. Topic: the implications of severe cutbacks at the Oregon Historical Society Research Library, where I spent much of the last two years researching this book. Thinking of what I might say on the radio, a metaphor comes to mind: the thrill of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rewarding Failure</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[AGI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bonuses]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can the $165 million that AGI is paying employees be considered bonuses if awarded for failure and not success? And that&#8217;s just the start. The bonuses are part of $450 million to be doled out. Some of my vanished retirement money came from annual bonuses while working at two Fortune 500 companies. Every manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurance Horrors</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Outrages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not posting to my blog for two days feels a bit like neglecting my toddler. Say, not giving him breakfast or lunch. Resuming with a chorus-of-snores subject &#8212; health insurance &#8212; is almost as neglectful. But health insurance came to mind today when I read that President-elect Barack Obama is resigning his U.S. Senate seat, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Hiding in Plain Sight&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After closely following the mainstream mediaâ€™s superficial coverage of the presidential campaign, Iâ€™m not surprised that much in Rolling Stoneâ€™sÂ damning new portrayal of John McCainâ€™s life and career isnâ€™t widely known. The piece feels like a hatchet job but only because the sheer volume of negative information is so shocking. Iâ€™ve read some of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sound of the sea lions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 03:49:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observed]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Newport]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Yaquina Bay]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Long after midnight, I heard sea lions barking. The sound echoed off Yaquina Bay, exotic at first as if I was on an isolated Pacific atoll, alone except for the abundant wildlife. After awhile I craved stillness and had to step inside from my perch on a condo balcony to escape the incessant cacophony. The [...]]]></description>
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