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	<title>Barataria - the work of Erik Hare</title>
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		<title>Barataria - the work of Erik Hare</title>
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		<title>Sarcasm</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/sarcasm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to make myself understood as plainly as possible.  That’s not always easy since I like to write about topics that matter to me, many of which are a bit difficult.  Add to that a bent to use colorful images that I hope will stay with the reader, and my work often gets a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1689&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Flag is Still There</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/the-flag-is-still-there/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is little to add to last year&#8217;s Fourth of July piece, &#8220;Fly the Flag&#8220;.  I invite you to read it this year as well.  Thank you for reading Barataria and have a wonderful Fourth of July.
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		<title>Pitchman</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:58:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[His death came as quite a shock not only to me, but also to my kids.  He was a kind of idol in our family, someone we often imitated for fun but knew we were nowhere near as talented.  His performances were like no one else in his business, real works of art that could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1686&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Alone</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/29/alone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:02:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I spend a lot of time alone.  I get an assignment as a contractor and I go off to do it, alone.  I search the listings for permanent jobs or recruiters through a long day in front of my computer screen, alone.  I work on my novel or my budding collection of fairy stories set [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1683&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright Eternal</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/26/copyright-eternal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1678</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Law exists primarily to defend property.  In medieval world, the primary concern was how real estate, often defined by a title, was maintained and passed on by the nobility.  This was dramatically extended by the American Revolution when fundamental rights were determined to be something that everyone possessed.  The idea of intellectual property, which are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1678&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Over a Liter</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/24/over-a-liter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 01:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I got to the bar on West Seventh a bit early.  I wasn’t sure how long it would take me to swim the mile through the sticky air, so I made sure I had too much time.  If nothing else, it was good to have some time to sit in the AC and imagine the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1676&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Failure is Impossible</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/failure-is-impossible/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/22/failure-is-impossible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The list of calls I had to make was numbing, long enough that it settled itself into a simple routine.  “Hi, my name is Erik, and I’m calling for Jim Scheibel, your DFL candidate for Mayor of Saint Paul.”  The 1989 election was going to be close, so Get Out The Vote (GOTV) calling to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1672&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Father&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/fathers-day/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/fathers-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 02:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Father’s Day.  It’s not quite my holiday, and not just because I gave up ties for fashionable banded-collar shirts some years ago.  My problem isn’t with being a Father, since I can think of nothing else I’d rather be called.  What I’ve never liked about the idea is that if you take being a Father [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1670&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Televised no, Twittered yes</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/televised-no-twittered-yes/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/17/televised-no-twittered-yes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 00:33:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ongoing situation in Iran has shown the value of the internet, especially twitter, to get the news out.  Once all of the foreign journalists were kicked out of the nation, it was up to citizen journalists to bring word of the protests to the rest of the world – and to some extent to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1668&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Insured</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/insured/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/insured/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1666</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When American Airlines flight 1549 skidded safely into the Hudson River, most of New York was in a state of panic.  It was, after all, the first low-flying commercial plane in that corridor since 9/11.  As word of the amazing landing got out, people were relieved that this time it was heroism, not terrorism, that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1666&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flu</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/flu/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/12/flu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:38:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have the flu today, so I am not up for one of my usual posts.  I&#8217;ll be back on Monday.
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		<title>School&#8217;s Out (for Summer)</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/10/schools-out-for-summer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 01:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the last day of school here in Saint Paul.  The summer has officially started, even if it is a bit cold and rainy outside.  The kids now have nearly 3 months to forget everything.  But does it have to be this way?
The school year as we know it is an artifact from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1663&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pedestrian Friendly</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/pedestrian-friendly/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/pedestrian-friendly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 00:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1656</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Any large building project has the potential to be defined by a detail.  It can be for better or worse, but it’s often true that “God is in the details”.  A major project here in Saint Paul, still in the planning stages, illustrates this point perfectly.  The current plans for the Central Corridor (University Avenue) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1656&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music in the Words</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/music-in-the-words/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good writing is like good music.  Both stay with you long after the experience is over, moving from your brain to your guts to your life.   They each are a kind of communication from one human to another, a shared experience between the writer or composer and the reader or listener. Where reading lacks a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1654&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Difficult Stuff</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/difficult-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The movie is set in a distant time and place where just about anything can happen.  The potential for amazing special effects is built into the scenario, which is always good.  It gets difficult when the characters have to explain what’s about to happen in a way that is believable.  Usually, it’s done with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1652&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pronouns</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/pronouns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 01:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reader can make of it what they want.  This may seem like a perfectly reasonable sentence in English to most people, but it has a serious problem.  If the word “readers” is plural the problem goes away, but it’s singular for a reason.  The subject is the reader, who is referred to later as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1649&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/justice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 01:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On 1 May, Justice Souter confirmed some long running rumors and formally announced he was preparing to retire.  Before the ink was dry on his signature, the game over his replacement started.  No one was nominated for the position yet, of course, but a number of people were preparing to skewer whoever was so anointed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1647&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PowerPoint Ballistics</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/powerpoint-ballistics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 01:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You find yourself in a dark room, dazzled by charts and graphs and pictures that go by just fast enough to lose you.   The speaker at the front is well intentioned and trying desperately to make you as enthusiastic as they are, but it’s no use.  Your mind wanders, desperately trying to find something to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1645&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/memorial-day/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/memorial-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 00:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/memorial-day/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Memorial Day is a special holiday, and not just because it honors those who gave their lives for our nation.  It was a spontaneous holiday that came about because it seemed necessary more than politically expedient.  There was little official about it until long after it was part of our national calendar.
It started with some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1642&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ysabella</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/ysabella/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/ysabella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/ysabella/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing quite like studying history to change your life.  No, I don’t mean this in the “those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it” divination of your future.  Just as surely as language is equal parts communication and personal identification, a good analysis of history is a combination of knowledge and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1641&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unallotted</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/unallotted/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/20/unallotted/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 00:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who don’t live in Minnesota, USofA, I apologize.  Our legislative session just ended with not a shout nor a wimper, but something of a wheeze.  It was a lesson in political power and how to use it, or not use it, that I believe says a lot about the problem Democrats [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1638&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Short Fable</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/a-short-fable/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/a-short-fable/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 00:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, a fable can sneak into our heads in a way that cold, hard reality doesnt.  That&#8217;s why I like writing stories like this.
Jeremy was not a bad squirrel, at least not in the sense that he deliberately tried to harm anyone.  But he was selfish, looking out for himself whenever he had the chance.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1633&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fountain</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/fountain/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/15/fountain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 00:41:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fountain is on.  Word goes through the neighborhood as if it has to, forming language to express what anyone hears well enough as the murmur of water.  We say it to each other not because we have to tell the story, but because something deep inside us says we have express our joy.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1629&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Knowitall</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/knowitall/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/knowitall/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Urban Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/knowitall/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think for a moment on how much you know about the world around you.  If there’s a debate about banning a very useful chemical because some people have found it is toxic or dangerous, what is your opinion?  If that’s too much, what do you know about how the operations of the Legislature that is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1624&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Punful</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/punful/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/punful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1618</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s never a bad time to inflict pun on people.  All language is a kind of play on words, the meanings taken from the stage they are set on.  Tying it all to some greater sense of the worldly is a gag about what happens when we’re not gagged, or how we express rather than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1618&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tunes</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/tunes/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/08/tunes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 00:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1614</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Without a cloud in sight and a temperature of 70F, it was a day to drive with the windows down and the radio turned up.  The sweet smells of a budding spring mixed with a song by Schubert playing on the radio; it was a moment of vivacious joy in the few minutes I had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1614&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Connections</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/connections/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/06/connections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 03:40:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1610</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that you’re in an elevator when the power goes out.  The systems that made it possible for you to easily travel between floors without even being aware of them are suddenly very obvious by their absence.  You’re trapped – all by things you never even bothered to notice were all around you all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1610&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oakland Cemetery</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/oakland-cemetery/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/04/oakland-cemetery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 00:43:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1606</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The scraggly oak trees form a tall ceiling that shades the entire drive.  It’s not that a view of the sun and sky would be unpleasanton this warm day of early spring, but it’s nice to have it blocked all the same.  The appropriate view of the eternal isn’t blue and bright, but sheltered close [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1606&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Be Not Afraid</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/be-not-afraid/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/05/01/be-not-afraid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 00:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1603</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Across the globe, May Day is Worker’s Day, a celebration of Labor forged in what may well be the first Big Idea that transcended national boundaries.  In the USofA, we made sure our Labor Day was insulated by all of summer from this idea because it was so troublesome.  Marxism, Communism, and all of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1603&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Craven</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/the-craven/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/the-craven/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1598</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Late at night I watched the tube, and while my eyes were fairly glued
At the economic graphs and stats they’d all excitedly report
I resolved to flip the channels in a search for greater annals
That made sense of all the tales that flew by rather short.
When they got us to the trillions for the banking world’s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1598&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>100 Days</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/100-days/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/100-days/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1594</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One Hundred Days.  The phrase rolls easily, pausing just long enough to sound as though it means something.  President Obama’s first Hundred Days has been compared to FDR by many commentators, most of whom found something where the new President was worthy of comparison.  It’s been a fun exercise, but what does it mean?

The first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1594&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troubleshooting</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/troubleshooting/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/24/troubleshooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1586</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The usually reliable Escort Wagon was dead.  The starter motor cranked, but nothing happened.  Being stranded with my young son might have seemed like a small nightmare, but it was one of the best moments we ever had.  I told him, “There are only three possibilities – fuel, air or spark.”  I showed him how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1586&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hurricane Watch</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/hurricane-watch/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/hurricane-watch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why haven’t I been writing about the economy with the ferocity I used to?  Because as we were waiting for something to happen, it all got weird.  The fun we&#8217;ve been having is  just the hurricane party before the real storm hits – people with a happy sense of doom only deepen a good disaster [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1573&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>SPQR</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/spqr/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/spqr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/spqr/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As someone who likes to look for historical parallels, it’s only natural that I’d have the rash break out that I get every few years or so; a burning desire to read up a bit more on ancient Rome.  No, it’s not that I think our own nation is about to fall as Rome did [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1569&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes on the Prize</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/eyes-on-the-prize/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/eyes-on-the-prize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1551</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem with the Left is that they don’t understand the Nazis didn’t set the Reichstag fire.
There’s little I enjoy more than taking an argument to a conclusion just past absurdity.  It’s a style better suited for comedy, but it’s also a way of being just a bit demure and disarming.  When done well, this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1551&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Coffee</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/coffee/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/coffee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1538</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I’m haunting the coffee shop a little bit too much when the perky staff turns to me once every counter has been left slightly damp by a casually passed cloth.  “So what do you do?” comes easily, because in our world people are defined by their job.  “I’m a writer,” I tell them, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1538&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Specialists</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/specialists/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/specialists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1531</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no single, widely accepted definition for an Economic Depression.  The most common call is a deep recession, a GDP loss of about 10% (likely completed in 1Q09) or unemployment above 15%.  Some will tell you that it’s a long recession, 6 quarters or more of loss.  I’ve argued that it’s nothing more than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1531&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Two Years On</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/two-years-on/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/two-years-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1516</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was a dark and stormy night …
That’s how I started writing Barataria two years ago today.  Like many of my small acts of humility, the reference to Bulwer-Litton was simple and funny and ultimately unnoticed by many of my readers.  If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my 43 years of life, it’s that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1516&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Ghost Story</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/ghost-story/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/08/ghost-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The house is dim and dirty.  The paint is peeling from the clapboard sides.  The only sound is the wrought iron fence gate, swinging in a wind that runs through your spine.  As the image sinks into your memory, you notice one more thing – up in the tower something is moving, pacing the floor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1509&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Transit Planning</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/transit-planning/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/transit-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 01:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re strangers who know very little about each other, but we greet each other much like friends.  What passes between us is a familiarity gained from a few moments every day on the 74 bus in Saint Paul.  Yeah, I know that guy, howyadoin’?  That is ultimately the best description of the key characteristic of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1507&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Restructuring</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/restructuring/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/03/restructuring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 00:01:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1502</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I explained the economic downturn to my son, who is 9, in terms he could understand.  “It’s like we’ve done something bad, so the whole economy has to go to its room and think about what it did and what it can do differently.  We’re in our room, alone and sad right now.”  He bought [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1502&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Double Take</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/double-take/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/double-take/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hardly anyone saw it coming.  One day, guys in suits were happily revisioning new paradigms, and the next day everything changed.  Where they used to synthesize synergies, they suddenly found themselves having to work together.  Properties that were highly leveraged are now mortgaged and busted.  Things that once were utilized overnight were merely used.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1500&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Minimalism</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/minimalism/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/minimalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:24:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1496</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The design team at Facebook thought it had a winning strategy to defeat Twitter – offer users everything that Twitter has, and more.  What they didn’t realize is that Twitter’s base were fans for one key reason – it was less.  The resulting firestorm has Facebook scrambling to regroup.  This may seem like an isolated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1496&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Trust</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/trust/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/trust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like any good trust-building exercise, it started when a moment of tension took a sharp left turn into the unexpected.  I was down to visit with Jonas, an Amish carpenter, about how my associates and I were going to sell his craftsmanship on the internet.  More than a meeting of cultures, centuries were colliding.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1494&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Money</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/money/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/money/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1485</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People are willing to give up 40 or more hours a week to have it.  The lust for it drives some people to betray their friends’ trust, and the lack of it has driven some to suicide.  In our culture, there is nothing quite like money as a motivator.  So what is it?
I got into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1485&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>New Times</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/new-times/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/new-times/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1483</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The times we live in are like no other in history.  We have the internet, which allows us to connect with people all over the world.  We have jets that can take us anywhere with a dull routine involving a few hours out of our lives.  Life expectancy constantly climbs as we learn more and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1483&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The Rules</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/the-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1474</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For most people, the definition of the Good Life™ is easy – you play by the Rules and get ahead.  Some people prefer to break the Rules and get ahead on their own terms.  Some of us, however, stand off to the side a little bit and wonder just what these “Rules” are and who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1474&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Hysterical Depression</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/hysterical-depression/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/hysterical-depression/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1468</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For many people, this is a time of great uncertainty – they don’t know what is going to happen next.  For those of us who study history, what happens next isn’t the question, but rather how bad it will be – and what happens after that.  This may sound like the same thing, and as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1468&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Values</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/values/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1461</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was challenged recently to explain what happened to our economy in simple terms.  I set myself a limit of 800 words, and as you can see I failed.  But I like this essay and I hope you do, too.  I don’t want to take out anything.

It’s all about the value of money.  You can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1461&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Routine</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/routine/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/13/routine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1457</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The kids are off to school, and the morning shifts into a dull quiet.  It’s time to do what I have to do – time for a routine.  Getting back into it is difficult when there’s little definition to my constant scrambling for work, but it’s important.  The research trip to Miami is long over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1457&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Miami</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/miami/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/miami/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1455</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been on vacation for the last 3 days in Miami.  Since this is where I grew up, it’s a strange place to take a “vacation” – but rather than get away from it all I’ve always been one to get in the middle of it.  I was tagging along with my partner Cristy who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1455&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>¿Dónde Está el Baño?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/%c2%bfdonde-esta-el-banjo/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/%c2%bfdonde-esta-el-banjo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1447</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The train between concourses in Atlanta Hartsfield airport is full of the heat, sweat, and silence any traveler comes to expect.  There are three electric signs explaining the situation – one in English, one rolling between French, German, and Spanish, and the last one the more artful display of Arabic, Japanese, and Korean.  Whichever one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1447&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Call to Action</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/call-to-action/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/call-to-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1444</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s just a word.  That’s the main thrust of many of the comments on my last blog entry, several e-mails, and a lot of tweets.  The other side of the same argument is that words can be very powerful, so what’s the point in using that power to scare people?  If we call it a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1444&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Name?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/whats-in-a-name/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/04/whats-in-a-name/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:06:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1434</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Words shape the way we see the world around us.  We are a social animal that relies on discussion and interpretation to understand what we see, figuring things out in a kind of committee.  Our thoughts are often in language, a Jungian dialogue between our outer and inner selves. There is a rich meaning beyond [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1434&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Unity</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/unity/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/03/02/unity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1432</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unity means a lot of things to different people operating in different circumstances.  Among people of different backgrounds or beliefs, Unity means that they are reaching beyond their normal lives to act as one.  The political system in the USofA is based on the idea that entire political systems are stronger when they come together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1432&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Organize</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/organize/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/organize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1428</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many organizations are finding themselves in trouble they didn’t anticipate.  Corporations, government agencies and nonprofits alike find that at the end of a long period of emphasis on individual achievement the advancing  Depression sees them surprisingly vulnerable.  This isn’t a totally unexpected.  Organizations of people exist for a reason, and when times change the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1428&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Want Ads</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/want-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/25/want-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 00:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Millions of people are finding themselves not only without a job, but without a career.  As whole industries downsize at once the necessary restructuring in our economy means that many professions are going to be reduced to the point where they appear to have gone away.  If their profession is a big part of their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1419&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Tuchusocracy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/tuchusocracy/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/tuchusocracy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:01:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/23/tuchusocracy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The moment of terror comes slowly at first, rolling under your subconscious before you really know it’s there.  Only once it’s too late do you recognize the signs were there all along – the big stacks of papers that serve as fortifications and the large cups of coffee that can provision any siege. Everyone else [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1414&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Grandpa&#8217;s Job</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/grandpas-job/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/20/grandpas-job/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1407</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Understanding the changes that have taken place in our economy over the last two generations helps us to understand the nature of the Depression or near Depression we are in now.  The most important reason for this is that the way out of a economic downturn is a restructuring – allocating energy and money to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1407&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Jackson</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/jackson/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/18/jackson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Celtic]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1404</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You may know him from the twenty dollar bill, but that may be a fleeting glance.  These bills come and go from our lives and there is only so much that you can tell from them.  The engraver put a bit of sadness into Jackson’s eyes, a sense of weight that doesn’t quite seem right.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1404&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Fireside Chat</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/a-fireside-chat/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/16/a-fireside-chat/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1402</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[History doesn’t repeat itself.  As the cycles rise and fall there are always different circumstances, new actors and a different spirit in the people.  Somehow, it seems, we even learn a thing or two along the way.  As we confront the possibility of a new Depression we can see that our leaders are responding to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1402&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Build a Better Tomorrow</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/build-a-better-tomorrow/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/13/build-a-better-tomorrow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 00:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1393</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Things rarely go as planned.  I was hoping to move from my analysis explaining the current Depression (or potential Depression) into some solutions.  Along the way, I realized that most of my solutions were rather vague, which is to say a lot like FDR’s plan.  Since I don’t expect anyone to believe I have anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1393&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The Long View</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/the-long-view/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/the-long-view/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1385</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I tend to take the long view on things.  Granted, I like to eat every day and I have bad habits that make me act in the shockingly short term.  When it comes time to explain things, however, all the pleasure and gratification seeking behaviors of people happen in response to some kind of social [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1385&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Reading is Writing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/reading-is-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/reading-is-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1382</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Think about your favorite book, newspaper article, or any writing that really stands out to you.  What is it that you remember?  It’s probably not a bunch of symbols on page or the smell and texture of the paper and ink.  What you likely remember are images that are precious to you, the feeling and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1382&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Healthy Care</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/healthy-care/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/healthy-care/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 00:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/healthy-care/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s little doubt that one of the most persistent of the crises that we face is in health care.  A Rand Corporation study recently concluded that 60% of the care delivered was substandard and that about 25% of the cost goes to administration.  This problem is about to become even worse as people lose their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1369&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Overhead or Head Count?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/overhead-or-head-count/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/overhead-or-head-count/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1363</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Roughly 11 million people are unemployed in the USofA, and there is every reason to believe that this will increase.  Every month another 600k or so workers file for unemployment insurance.  This figure doesn’t include those who do not have a full 40 hours of work each week but would like to – add them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1363&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Underwrite and Under-Write</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/underwrite-and-under-write/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/underwrite-and-under-write/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 02:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1360</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who doubts the potential for a Depression needs to read the newspaper. No, don’t bother with the front page or the business section – skip over to the part that matters.  A quick glance at the ads taken out by retail stores shows an amazing number of deep sales, running 50 or even 75 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1360&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Was it so Great?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/was-it-so-great/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/was-it-so-great/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1353</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama has gotten his first bill through, an $825B package of tax breaks, local government aid, and unemployment extensions.  They call it an “Economic Recovery” bill because the term “Stimulus” is a bit passé now.  What’s clear about it, however, is that this bill is designed to do little more than avoid Depression and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1353&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Renno!</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/renno/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/28/renno/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 01:27:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the city of Saint Paul, there are 2200 plus vacant homes, and the inspection staff at the city agree that they are probably counting about half of the total.  That means about 4% of the units are vacant in the City overall, and a lot more expected to hit foreclosure.  As bad as this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1348&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Property</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/cultural-property/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/cultural-property/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 02:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globalism, as a concept, has many strange facets that can each dazzle and blind in their own way.  The basic principle is that the people of the world are somehow coming together and forming a single marketplace.  Since the start of this thing called “civilization”, however, a marketplace has been the center of social life [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1346&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Wheel</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/the-wheel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1339</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During the many lulls in inaugural coverage, CNN knew what would dazzle ‘em.  They had their satellite image of everyone standing around in the cold waiting for The Moment – the time when Obama would formally be worn in.  Huddled around giant screens you could see the black specs, which the CNN crew dutifully told [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1339&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairyland</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/fairyland/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/21/fairyland/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:29:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1332</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Capitol statuary hall was filled with the leaders of the land, some seated and awaiting lunch, other standing larger than life in marble.  A gentle wash of language drifted up to the gilded and painted ceilings as they all bided their time, waiting for the moment. Then, on cue, the doorman barked, “Ladies and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1332&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows Past</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/shadows-past/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/shadows-past/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1322</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The rumor spread down Flagler Street with a sense of urgency.  Miami was a city of rumors, each of us trying to stay ahead of the latest in unrest.  There was a way these things came through, a procedure.  It came to me in broken Spanglish, filling the pause between the order of Café Cubano [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1322&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Keynes to Success</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/keynes-to-success/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/keynes-to-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 00:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1310</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Government has thrown its entire weight into preventing a Depression through a program of dedicated spending.  The original bailout/stimulus of $700 billion is being matched by a project budget deficit of $1,100 billion for 2009, plus whatever President Obama proposes and untold amounts of money loaned by the Federal Reserve.  All together, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1310&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Friends</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/friends/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 00:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1299</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The worst of winter hits us all this time of year.  The darkness of the Soltice takes a month or so to sink in, and we have arrived in our discontent of Winter right on schedule.  This is a time for friends and family huddling up with whatever warmth we have.  I’m very pleased to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1299&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Stupid Like a Fox</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/stupid-like-a-fox/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/stupid-like-a-fox/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:01:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1290</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s a common problem in the nooze lately.  A story is told with blank objectivity over a few minutes of radio time or a several column inches of newspaper.  It may have a decent interjection of context in the form of a short history lesson or a few juicy quotes that allow the participants to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1290&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Spontaneous</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/spontaneous/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/09/spontaneous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A record 4.6 million people are drawing unemployment checks, and as many as 2 million could join them in the next year. That may seem like a Depression to some people, but what we can be sure of is that these losses will not be felt evenly.  As companies opt to cut the highest paid [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1283&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Awards</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/awards/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/awards/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week voting continues for the 2008 Weblog Awards, and I am proud and humbled to be a finalist in the category Best Culture Blog.  With a tremendous number of new visitors coming through and wondering just what this mess of language is all about, this is a good time to explain myself.  What is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1273&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Ad Value</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/ad-value/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/ad-value/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1263</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During a recent marathon of “The Twilight Zone”, my daughter and I saw the classic figure many times over.  Not Rod Serling and his smoldering cigarette, but the figure of a driven, successful young man from the black and white world of fifty years ago.  Every time a character was given the Zonal treatment for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1263&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>On the Margin:  Making It</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/on-the-margin-making-it/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/01/02/on-the-margin-making-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re living on the margin, or may be soon, the amount of income you have may be a fixed number you just have to deal with.  It also might be an income much lower than you’re used to if you’re one of the newly unemployed.  In this, the fourth installment of the “On the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1250&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>On the Margin: Work</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/on-the-margin-work/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/on-the-margin-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1235</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve lost your job recently, you may already have a sense of panic or dread about finding work.  In this third part outlining what I’ve learned about marginal employment, I hope that you find something interesting and leave some good information for everyone else.
Just as the overall goal is to keep your eyes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1235&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the Margin: Habits</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/on-the-margin-habits/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/on-the-margin-habits/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve recently lost your job, you’re looking at a whole new world that you will have to deal with.  I’ve learned a lot by being marginally employed, and in this second installation I’d like to share what I’ve learned about this world.  I don’t know everything, and I’ve certainly made mistakes.  If you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1222&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>On the Margin</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/on-the-margin/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/26/on-the-margin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1215</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In January 2008, 78.3 million Americans had jobs.  By November, that was down to 76.7 million people and shrinking fast.  The 3.9 million who were unemployed in 2007 have seen their ranks grow by 41%, meaning that a lot of people are unemployed now that haven’t been in the recent past.  Those who have been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1215&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Visit from St. Klaus</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/a-visit-from-st-klaus/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/a-visit-from-st-klaus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1204</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Twas the hours before trading, and there on the screen
The markets abroad were all tranquil and green;
In Europe and Asia they each held to their course,
With decent increases in bourse after bourse.
But yet I couldn’t sleep in the dark of the night
Knowing somewhere that something just possibly might
Take a dive, though the hour was terribly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1204&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas for Everyone</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/christmas-for-everyone/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/22/christmas-for-everyone/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I am feeling lazy and have a lot of other things to do, I thought I&#8217;d recycle this post from 2000 which first appeared in Columbus Day Riot. 
Christmastime can be hard those of us who tend to worry about how the world works. I have railed in the past about the obligations to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1202&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Waves</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/waves/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/19/waves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1194&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Count Your Blessings</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/count-your-blessings/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/17/count-your-blessings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 00:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year, people don’t have the holiday cheer they are supposed to.  Everyone looks a little frazzled and tired, and their tolerance for other people isn’t very high.  No, I’m not talking about the economy, although that might have something to do with it.  This has to do with solar flares.

This may not seem to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1187&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Impending Doom</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/15/impending-doom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1184</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of warning signs.  The nooze outlets lead with the blizzard that closed I-94 north and west of here.  The air starts to get thick and colder, falling through the freezing point a bit too easily.  The pressure takes a nosedive, giving Human Barometers like myself a deep headache that lays on top [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1184&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>News Hole</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/news-hole/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1172</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Tribune Company and the Minneapolis Star Tribune are more or less bankrupt and many other nooze organizations are slimming down.  Blame the internet, Citizen Journalism, or some other trend?  The problem with Journalism today has very little to do with Journalism.  The problem is that their business model has broken and no one has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1172&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Rules for Radicals</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/rules-for-radicals/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/rules-for-radicals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:01:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1161</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was hot under the seats of the old Tropicaire horse track, but no one expected otherwise.  Events like the Around the World Fair are always hot and sticky in the nether reaches of suburban Miami.  I was wearing a long-sleeve white shirt  because the sun would destroy my skin, so white I always said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1161&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Kidnap the Santa Claus?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/kindap-the-santa-claus/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/08/kindap-the-santa-claus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
There has to be more to it, doesn’t there?   Doesn’t this “Santa” guy have some ulterior motive?
That’s what my teenage daughter tells [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1151&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Small Talk</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/small-talk/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/05/small-talk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1141</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people have something they dread about parties and gatherings, especially ones where a lot of the people are strangers.  Some people worry about what they have to wear or how their hair looks.  Some are introverts who worry how long it will take them to feel exhausted.  I have a different [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1141&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Myths, Big and Small</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/myths-big-and-small/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/03/myths-big-and-small/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The essays come home in waves, taking the form of a packet.  There’s a lot to wade through in order to understand how the kids are doing, but it’s every parent’s job.  Since I’m more visual, and since I like to know how all the kids are doing, I find the walls of the classroom [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1128&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Motivation</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/motivation/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/motivation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s my usual time to write my novel, first thing in the morning.  I make myself a cup of Twinings Prince of Wales, fidgeting through the time it takes to steep.  I turn the radio on to Minnesota Public Radio and hope that they’re playing something I like.  When the tea is ready I stuff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1126&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Thankful</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/thankful/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/thankful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:01:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The sky was clear and calm.  The nervous energy of a workday was dissolving into a stream of red lights as the cars filled the roads out of Saint Paul.  It was time for the city to evacuate to the ancestral homelands in the northwoods of Minnesota for another Thanksgiving.  We packed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1123&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Promised Land</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/promised-land/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/promised-land/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[First came God’s paradise, Eden, which mankind was kicked out of for not following instructions.  After that came floods, slavery, fratricide, and a whole lotta smiting.  The three great “Religions of the Book” – Judaism, Christianity, and Islam – differ as to when and where it happened, but all agree that at some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1110&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The Fractal Era</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/the-fractal-era/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/24/the-fractal-era/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Twentieth Century is over!  We don’t have to be Modern anymore!”  That’s how architecture and design critic James Howard Kunstler described his joy at the passing of time a few years ago.  Modernism was dead and we all lived in a Post-Modernist word – whatever that means.  So what kind [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1103&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Perfect Union: Neighborhood</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/more-perfect-union-neighborhood/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/more-perfect-union-neighborhood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Saint Paul Police Chief Harrington told the story as the featured speaker for the Fort Road Federation Annual Meeting.  Two police officers went to a house where a concerned neighbors called about a woman at the front door shouting something in Hmong.  Not knowing what was up, they proceeded carefully as she kept [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1095&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Perfect Union: Internet</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/more-perfect-union-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/more-perfect-union-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:01:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1091</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a time when just about every national institution is experiencing difficulties or is right out failing.  There are many reasons why this is happening, but much of it boils down to two basic forces:  dramatic over-reaching and the influence of the Internet.  I’ll leave the hubris of our financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1091&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Perfect Union: Music</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/more-perfect-union-music/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/17/more-perfect-union-music/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1082</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You’re at a game, crammed into the seats like everyone else.  It could be any of the big sports, but you can predict it especially easily when it’s hockey.  At the first break in the action the wailing guitars crank up in a way that bring the image of a hand rolling the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1082&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Perfect Union: Publishing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/more-perfect-union-publishing/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/more-perfect-union-publishing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1071</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Literature is important to a culture.  Before something becomes literature, however, it has to be published.  That means it’s subject to all the constraints of the publishing industry, which is… (wait for it)  an industry.  It has to make money.  Fine arts rarely make money, at least in the short [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1071&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Perfect Union: Literature</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/more-perfect-union-literature/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They were walking down Flagler Street in Miami like they might any other day, nothing more than two men that appeared to be strangers.  The fact that one was Black and one was Latino would give them little reason to acknowledge each other at all, unless one wanted to start a fight.  This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1056&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>More Perfect Union</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/more-perfect-union/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/more-perfect-union/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1054</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two generations ago, the USofA found itself in something like a Baroque Era.  There was unprecedented wealth distributed widely through manufacturing jobs, and many families found they could opt for “stay at home mothers” for the first time.  In this world of chrome and fins, one thing was clear:  outside of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1054&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Generations: Fractures</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/generations-fractures/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/07/generations-fractures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The great wheel of history turns, and another generation has taken its place at the top.  While there are many things that can be said about the historic election just past the most obvious is that the change we have seen is simply due.  The many faults in the Republican coalition which cracked [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1048&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations: Passage</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/05/generations-passage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You wake up one day, and you go off to greet your parents.  Maybe it’s at an airport, or maybe it’s just down the block.  There’s one day etched in your memory as the day you realized it.  That one day when the years of worrying about you and all the other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1042&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sen. Dean Barkley</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/sen-dean-barkley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a Senate race in Minnesota that’s gotten rather dirty.  No one in another state will be surprised by this, but we like to think that we’re better than this up here.  We’re not.  We’re human.  And we have a lot of money coming in from the outside to make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1039&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Patriot</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/31/patriot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To hear the podcast, please click on the &#8220;play&#8221; arrow. The music is &#8220;Liberty City&#8221; by Jaco Pastorius.


Election Day is not a national holiday, at least not in the traditional sense.  But it is the one day that our nation asks something from all of us, even if it’s just a few minutes.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1025&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Senility System</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/29/senility-system/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:26:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The conviction of Senator Ted Stevens has highlighted one of the unspoken problems of the US Senate.  The pictures of Sen. Stevens, the longest serving Republican Senator ever, have shown a rather pathetic senior citizen fighting a battle against what appears to be reality.  There’s little doubt that he’s way past his prime, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1012&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bennies</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/bennies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the reality of our economic situation sinks in, some implications will seem a bit strange.  A Depression (or a Depression like situation) is marked by the loss of jobs, and we can reasonably expect higher unemployment.  Unlike the last Depression, however, people have a lot riding on the bennies they get through employment.  The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1004&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Pragmatic Party</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/the-pragmatic-party/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in 1999, I wrote this piece to recruit potential members of what I called &#8220;The Pragmatic Party&#8221;.  It was a party beyond ideology and all the other nonsense people drone on about &#8211; a People&#8217;s Party for a cynical age.
Naturally, it went nowhere.  Since I wasn&#8217;t surprised, I wasn&#8217;t upset.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=993&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banana Republic</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/22/banana-republic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the election draws closer, the inevitable cries of fraud and vote buying are being raised.  Early voting has opened in Florida and other states, and the process is being watched closely.  Despite all that we’ve heard on this, however, vote buying and fraud is almost certainly a big industry in some parts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=986&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Out of the Woods</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/out-of-the-woods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a place called Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, the Allies met in 1944 to plan what the world would look like once WWII was over.  Victory was not assured, but it was clear that the cost of defeating Hitler would be devastating at best.  The goal of this conference was to devise how everyone would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=979&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Works Progress</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/works-progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:53:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lot of us fear turning the clock back about 70 years to another Depression.  While it would have been a good idea to avoid it, people like me who spread the alarm were largely ignored because too many people made too much easy money off of nothing.  In a certain sense, it was all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=976&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations:  Played Out</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/generations-played-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=970</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The party platform is 35,000 words long, addressing just about every aspect of government and how it desperately needs an overhaul.  It opens with a strong statement of purpose:

America is adrift. Our country moves agonizingly, aimlessly, almost helplessly into one of the most dangerous and disorderly periods in history.  At home, our economy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=970&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Marketism</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/marketism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:09:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people describe the USofA as a “Capitalist” nation.  The presumption is that whoever has the money gets to determine how things operate and has a share of relevant power in proportion to their wealth.  This is simply wrong.  The USofA has always been the first and foremost “Marketist” nation, a term [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=967&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Something From Nothing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/10/something-from-nothing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:25:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, in a faraway land, a small band of us became friends in the financial chatboards devoted to amazon.com.  Those of us who got together were of many minds, some perma-bears and a few devoted technical stock analysis mavens.  But the majority of us were only there to see if this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=961&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Debatable</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/debatable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this, the second Presidential Debate is pending.  Many people are looking forward to this event because they want to know where the candidates stand on the important issues.  Others are hoping that the candidate they back does something dramatic to “win” the debate.  How important is all of this?
Actually, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=958&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Family Value</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/family-value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economic crisis is certainly taking its toll on families and the relationships that they are built on.  A strong family requires a stable income and the things it provides, such as a consistent house and a balanced meal.  What a family also requires, however, is great heaps of old fashioned quantity time spent together.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=955&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the Alamo</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/remembering-the-alamo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s post is a repeat from my earlier blog, &#8220;Columbus Day Riot&#8221;, first posted in 1999.  Since I recently commented on how so many things have gotten screwed up in the last 10 years, I thought it would be fun to remember the old daze &#8211; when the National Debt was about half what it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=951&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Say What?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/10/01/say-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:32:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine a time traveler from just 10 years ago. An ordinary person from the go-go 90s shows up at your doorstep a bit confused, and you naturally want to bring them up to date. You tell them how the Tech Bubble burst, how the election in 2000 went in Florida, and how we all watched [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=946&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paperback</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/paperback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is weak and people don’t have a lot of money.  There are a lot of writers around, but they are finding a hostile market where it is hard to get paid a decent wage.  Some of them have started writing in a more experimental if hard way in part to get noticed.  Eventually, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=941&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness Rising</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/26/darkness-rising/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 03:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the sun moves past the Equinox into autumn, the days are shorter and colder.  Clouds threaten rain all day, but the water of life only falls in dribbles.  This is the spooky season, the time of year when we all know what is coming.  All we can do is prepare for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=935&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spaces Inbetween</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/24/spaces-inbetween/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are so many things in the nooze lately that seem terribly important.  The election has taken a back seat to financial matters, at least now that the world has caught up to what many of us have seen coming for a year or more.  We passed the anniversary of 9/11 without much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=927&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Growth, Real Debt</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/real-growth-real-debt/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/real-growth-real-debt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=903</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The upheaval in financial markets has left many Americans stunned.  How could this have happened?  Even worse, how could this have happened with so few people giving us any kind of warning that it was possible?  I certainly did my best to tell everyone, but in the end there’s only so much anyone can do.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=903&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Recovery?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/recovery/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/19/recovery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=871</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been a long week, and as I write this there’s another day left in it.  The way big surprises come on weekends, you’d think that Friday will be a day when everyone smart wants to be very sure that their portfolio doesn’t contain anything that could get hit while you sleep.  When do we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=871&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liber Lectoris</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/liber-lectoris/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/17/liber-lectoris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many of my friends and acquaintances have asked me lately how I was so sure as long as a year ago, and especially two months ago, that there would be a financial meltdown.  To be fair, they’ve only asked me because I’ve been bragging about my prowess on this and other topics including why the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=868&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Implosion Begins</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-implosion-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/the-implosion-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sunday night has become a big time for dealmaking on Wall Street.  You can tell how bad everything is when the paper is signed only when the market is closed.  As I write this, two monster deals are happening:
Lehman Brothers (LEH) is preparing to file for bankruptcy, and
Bank of America (BAC) is preparing to buy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=865&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rockstar</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/rockstar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:35:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
The study of word origins, or etymology, is often fascinating. Words come to our language from many different places and many different needs. The most interesting words, however, often have very obvious origins but mysteriously deep cultural meanings. One such “super-cliché” is the word “Rockstar”.
 
The usage is obvious. A &#8220;Rockstar&#8221; is someone who is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=853&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cooking</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/10/cooking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=851</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The pan is hot.  A thin film of oil pours out of the bottle and rolls in the heat.  A thin whiff of burning rolls up just in time to meet the cold chicken, dropped in with an angry splash of hot oil and a deafening roar of violence.  A quick stir and it all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=851&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bookshelves</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/bookshelves/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/08/bookshelves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Living in a 150 year old house means that something is always under construction.  The Spencer House is like life itself, always wearing down or staring at you from unfinished improvements you know are necessary.
Recently, I got a bit closer to completing my office, a mysterious room probably added onto the main house in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=845&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>RNC Ends, not a Moment Too Soon</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/rnc-ends-not-a-moment-too-soon/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/05/rnc-ends-not-a-moment-too-soon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=839</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Republican Convention is over.  We can all come out from our bunkers and claim back our city, Saint Paul.  But what did all the smoke and noise mean?  I’ll break it down into parts.

The Republican Message
What I’ve been able to gather so far is that this election is a referendum on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=839&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HISSy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/04/hissy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=835</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It threatens to destroy our very culture, ripping us apart and disemboweling what our nation stands for.  In the end, a HISSy defenestrates civic life and leaves our vital public realm nothing more than a head on a pike.
Sounds ridiculous?  Sure it is.  But I wanted to use a lot of big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=835&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Children&#8217;s Crusade</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/03/the-childrens-crusade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not a riot unless something is set on fire.
We aren’t having a riot in Saint Paul by my own definition.  I’ve seen what real riots look like, and this ain’t it.  What we have are a bunch of children throwing a tantrum, pretending that violence gives them power.   It doesn’t. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=830&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Concrete and Life</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/concrete-and-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=821</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The walls around the Republican Convention were not enough.  As protesters flooded the streets, police had to form walls of warm human bodies behind shields, movable walls designed to keep the damage confined and the culprits identifiable.
At the other end of the Mississippi, walls built to keep out flood waters were holding, at least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=821&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The RNC Wall</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/the-rnc-wall/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 01:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=813</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I awoke one morning to find that I had been put into a prison.  It was not that I had been placed there, rather one had been built around me.  I went on my morning walk to inquire what my crime had been, and encountered a policeman in clean, sharp uniform.  I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=813&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convention Tidbits</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/convention-tidbits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=795</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Please forgive me for posting so often, but this is the season for a lot of politics.  Some of it may even be important.  Today a number of small things have happened that add up to a lot of nooze.  What will matter?  Here’s my take.

Sarah Palin
McCain’s choice for veep seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=795&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Crises</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/29/five-crises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=764</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[During this brief break between conventions, we should all take some time to reflect on what all the noise is about.  The stakes this year are unusually high because the USofA is not only much weaker than it has been in a long time, but there are signs that we are at a major [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=764&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hillary</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/hillary/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don’t usually do two posts in one day, but I’ve had someone on my mind all morning.
Senator Hillary Clinton left the stage last night amid many cheers and tears.  The talking heads told us that she said everything she had to in order to heal the party and create a united front in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=759&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dead Men Walking</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/27/dead-men-walking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 04:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=756</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s no question that the pending bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the largest mortgage underwriters in the nation, will cost a lot.  Very few people have given a price tag for this problem, but most analysts assume that it will be steep.  What’s never talked about, however, is the fallout among [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=756&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Let the Real Games Begin</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/let-the-real-games-begin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the DNC starting, the real election season begins now.  All that stuff that came before was just practice for these final 2 months.  This is showtime, and frankly it’s all a big show meant for the press.  The goal is to have an effective message that the press repeats eagerly, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=734&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soul Mate</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/soul-mate/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/22/soul-mate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two souls, born together in the spirit world, are cast into different bodies far apart when they are born into the temporal realm.  They remain connected, driven to find  each other in a nearly desperate search for happiness in this vale of suffering and tears.
This concept dates back at least as far as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=626&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking the Code</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/test-post/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/19/test-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the summary for the post, just to see what happens with it.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=17&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Investment Express</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/the-investment-express/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The USofA has a number of problems right now, but if you pair up a few of them they start to look remarkably complimentary. My picks? Put together the need for an economic stimulus that reaches further than the $600 checks written so far and the need to do something about our excessive dependence on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=97&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Verse of a Song</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/the-verse-of-a-song/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/the-verse-of-a-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:40:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is it that makes writing jump off of the page and into your imagination? We can all learn a lot by studying what the masters have done. What I have been trying to understand is the total outlook on life held by people who I have seen write very well. By doing this, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=98&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generic Politics</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/generic-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/generic-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:25:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=99</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The ominous music buzzes on the teevee. The deep voice informs you that something dire is happening. Or perhaps the music is upbeat, and a friendly female voice just this side of a telephone sex operation comes on. What can it be? We all know that these are nothing more than political ads. The same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=99&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reductio ad Extremis</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/reductio-ad-extremis/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/reductio-ad-extremis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:33:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The show opened like so many I&#8217;ve seen before. &#8220;This is the face of Muslim extremism, a man who grew up right here in Britain just as the Tube Bombers had.&#8221; I was only watching the show on CNN to see if it covered any new ground, but it didn&#8217;t. It was the same old [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=100&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Have it Bronzed</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/ill-have-it-bronzed/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/08/ill-have-it-bronzed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Its time for the Olympics, the two weeks when the whole world gets together in the spirit of athletic competition. Right?
Yeah, right.
When the whole world gets together, there&#8217;s only one thing that happens and that&#8217;s a lot of kvetching. It&#8217;s particularly grim with the Olympics in China, meaning that everyone gets to go on about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=101&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lotsa Vacation</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/05/lotsa-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just learned that President Bush has taken a total of 506 days of vacation in the 7.5 years he&#8217;s been the big cheese. That&#8217;s a bit over 67 days a year, or about 10 weeks.
Now, you may not get 10 weeks of vacation a year at your place of employment. If you&#8217;re like a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=102&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations: Re-Invention</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/03/generations-re-invention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve written before on the important generational change that is taking place right now in the USofA and how important it is through this election cycle:
Generations
Generations:  Institutionalized
Generations:  Do the Right Thing
Generations:  Empire
In addition, I&#8217;ve written about how terrible our leadership has become &#8211; not just stupid, but arrogantly stupid and incapable of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=103&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy as a Pig. Just a Pig.</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/happy-as-a-pig-just-a-pig/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/happy-as-a-pig-just-a-pig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 06:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Cliches
Good ways
To say what you mean
Mean what you say
- Jimmy Buffett
Anyone who&#8217;s written a book has heard it from someone: &#8220;You need to get rid of a few clichés&#8221;. What? I can&#8217;t have any of those, I avoid them like a very contagious disease!
Everyone uses a trite phrase once in a while, and for good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=104&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The D Word</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/29/the-d-word/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=105</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Recession is when your neighbor loses her job,
A Depression is when you lose yours.
(old adage)
As the economic downturn continues, a lot of people have started to wonder if we&#8217;re heading into a Depression. Teevee shows, when they bring it up at all, usually prefer the term &#8220;D Word&#8221; so as not to scare anyone. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=105&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Bubble</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/writing-bubble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve heard of all kinds of &#8220;bubbles&#8221;, or market excesses. We had a tech bubble when people thought stocks like amazon.com were actually worth a lot. We had a real estate bubble where the market was willing to run up housing prices beyond what was reasonable. Why do we do this? Apparently, it&#8217;s what we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=106&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Munchie</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/munchie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Munchie wasn&#8217;t a bad cat, but he had a reputation. His name probably came from his habit of jumping up on counters and tables, eating anything that was left out. Bread, crackers, you name it &#8211; all for Munchie. When his second or third family were moving, Munchie was handed off yet again. Cristy took [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=107&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ode an die Freude</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/ode-an-die-freude/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 05:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before going to bed, I look over my novel in progress. Just a few edits, a few places where edits should be, and other notes to myself and I can go to sleep. That&#8217;s what I need. Then, when the clock strikes three and the world is dark, I wake up and check it again. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=108&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Citizen Journalism</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/citizen-journalism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Citizen Journalism is a hot topic, and for a good reason. If the internet is going to live up to its promise of connecting people, the methods and tools for reporting on our lives have to be distributed to the people. That&#8217;s Jay Rosen of NYU&#8217;s definition of Citizen Journalism
How new and exciting is this? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=109&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Truth of the Cottonwoods</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/21/truth-of-the-cottonwoods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:46:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cottonwoods are tall and scraggly, leaning over each other as shaking hands in friendship. This is their world, a place where they can stand undisturbed by little more than a few hikers and the buzz of motorboats. Their size alone gives them an authority that allows them to speak silently, telling stories about their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=110&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barking at the &#8216;Net</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/barking-at-the-net/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/barking-at-the-net/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two main types of writing on the internet: Talking and Barking.
Talking is when someone communicates something to another human. It might be an essay about an idea, such as this one. It could be a statement in a chatroom like, &#8220;I just went for ice cream&#8221;. What&#8217;s important about Talking is that it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=111&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brasilian Way</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/brasilian-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m going to tell you an idea I had for a novel. Why would I tell you this rather than write it? Because, sadly, world events have rendered the premise a bit moot. I call it &#8220;Maneira Brasileira&#8221; or &#8220;The Brasilian Way&#8221;.
The story is told through &#8220;newspaper&#8221; clippings from three sources: one set in London [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=112&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[George Washington was known primarily for being fearless. When his men had circled around and were accidentally firing on each other, he drew his sabre and rode between the line of rifles, fiercely cutting them down. When he needed a win badly, he risked freezing to death by crossing the Delaware to surprise the Hessians [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=113&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No Safe Harbor</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/no-safe-harbor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 18:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s blog entry has a distinct lack of fun. Sorry &#8217;bout that. But this has to be said.
On Friday, the stock market reacted to news that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, the nation&#8217;s top mortgage lenders, were on the verge of bankruptcy. Fannie Mae dropped 22% in one day, capping off a loss of 84% [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=114&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Open yer Mouth</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/10/open-yer-mouth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s start with a simple question: The main reason to open your mouth is:
A) To shove food into it, or
B) To express yourself.
If you answered &#8220;B&#8221;, I think we need to talk. You figger that&#8217;s what yer mouth is for, yes?
This distinction, which seems a bit silly, may become a very serious problem in my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=115&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>15 Second Politics</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/15-second-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more, politics has devolved into positions that can be stated in 15 seconds or less. That&#8217;s not at all a coincidence with the time it takes for the shortest of commercials that run on teevee.
There are many examples. The war in Iraq, for example, is a complicated situation that is going to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=116&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nice Work if You Can Get It</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/06/nice-work-if-you-can-get-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 15:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Summertime, and the livin&#8217; is easy.&#8221;
Not to take too much away from George Gershwin, summertime is the hardest time of the year for me; even moreso around the Fourth of July. I make my living as a consultant to nonprofits, writing grants, pr, strategic plans, and just any other way they need their story to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=117&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fly the Flag</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/03/fly-the-flag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:51:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The misunderstandings and suspicions melted away, as they always do, after a few litres of liquid bread that the Germans call &#8220;Bier&#8221;. Harald was very honest in his German way, a kind of honesty that was spelled out in long, silent pauses as much as words. &#8220;With all of these different people and cultures, what [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=388&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Housing Bubble, Toil and Trouble</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/housing-bubble-toil-and-trouble/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:54:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I got into an argument in some distant corner of the internet. That&#8217;s not exactly news &#8211; it happens far too often in my life. But this particular argument, setting aside how it got personal, was rather important to me.
The other person, with the best intentions, was saying two things about the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=118&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Depressing Events</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/depressing-events/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:49:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What does a Depression look like? It&#8217;s been a long time since we had one, so it&#8217;s hard to tell exactly. The main feature is that a tremendous amount of money that was once in the system evaporates, leaving a huge shortage of resources to carry on the normal functions of the economy. If that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=119&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ein Kunstlerleben</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/ein-kunstlerleben/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My life is a series of circles waiting to be closed and strange coincidences that complete the loop. It&#8217;s as if it&#8217;s all a Symphony by van Beethoven, carefully orchestrated and pitching and rolling, but in the end it comes back to the same simple theme. Three eights and a half, &#8220;Freude, schoene, Goetterfunken&#8221;, they&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=120&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>IRV</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/25/irv/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This fall, Saint Paul is going to have a referendum authorizing Instant Run-off Voting (IRV) for municipal elections on the ballot. Under this proposal, choices in an election would be ranked, rather than simply selected, and in successive rounds candidates with fewer votes can be dropped off and the votes allocated to the voters&#8217; second [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=121&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Convention Wisdom</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/23/convention-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:27:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This September, my neighborhood will host the Republican National Convention. It is not an event I am looking forward to largely because I expect it will be something like a large frat party &#8211; a celebration of failure made up of drinking and whoring by a lot of white guys.
The city of Saint Paul, however, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=122&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>500 Year Floodplain</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/19/500-year-floodplain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 19:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The great bubble of water that mushroomed out of the banks of the Iowa River has moved on into the Mississippi, causing even more devastation as it moves south. Farms and towns have been flooded, roads have been closed, and barge traffic has ceased. Can&#8217;t something be done to prevent this, if not stop it?
In [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=123&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desaparecidos</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/desaparecidos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between 1976 and 1983, as many as 30,000 people in Argentina simply disappeared. These &#8220;Desaparecidos&#8221;, as they were known, simply vanished at the hands of the regime. After a while, mothers of the disappeared started marching in the Plaza de Mayo carrying pictures and demanding answers. Eventually, the government fell and a long process of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=124&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Write on!</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/16/write-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:31:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve gotten a few letters since I compared the on-line world to a large High School, desperate for the veneer of coolness. I&#8217;d like for people to post in the public comments section, in order to get a dialogue going, but I can still talk to you in private if you&#8217;d prefer.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewblog.asp?authorid=55121&#38;blogid=33411
The most interesting point [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=125&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Techno High School</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/techno-high-school/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a confession to make. I am not on the cutting edge of anything. I rarely have the latest technology, and I do not usually even know the latest words. I am not one of the cool kids in the great High School of life.
Yes, I know, I didn&#8217;t have to &#8220;confess&#8221; this. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=126&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Return</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/urban-return/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I called up an architect recently to get the name of a good carpenter who can be trusted with a 150 year old house. But this friend, who is heavily involved in our community, had a serious beef to air first. What got him upset was a recent policy change here in Saint Paul. Since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=127&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Planning</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/strategic-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 06:42:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you volunteer for a nonprofit, and you should, you&#8217;ve probably been through a strategic planning process. This is where the organization sits down and draws up a plan for the next five years or so that directs where the organization is going and how it will achieve goals beyond the daily grind of doing [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=128&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Team</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/05/the-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way that the Democratic primary campaign ended was a solid letdown. As any of my regular readers know, I&#8217;ve said that this was over a long time ago and time has shown that I was roughly correct. The last primaries have been very much like watching a football game in which one team was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=129&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Obvious</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/03/the-obvious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barack Obama paid my neighborhood a visit last night. I&#8217;d have offered him something to drink, maybe a dog on the grill if he was up for it, but it wasn&#8217;t that kind of visit. We watched the motorcade of 5 rolling disco troopers, two buses, and some number of cars from the bluff overlooking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=130&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hung T-Bar Ceiling</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/06/02/hung-t-bar-ceiling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like anyone, I have a few small things that bug me more than they should. But as fits my status as a curmudgeon, mine is nearly impossible to avoid while being hopelessly esoteric. You see, nothing bothers me more than a hung T-bar ceiling with drop-in acoustical tile.
If that doesn&#8217;t make any sense to you, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=131&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brightest Bulbs</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/brightest-bulbs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 19:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was contemplating how many things are screwed up bad in the USofA. This is a time of more than garden variety kvetching about how much better things could be, this is a time where nearly everything is falling apart. Our government budgets are hopelessly imbalanced, the dollar is falling, stagflation is arriving, real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=772&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Regional</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/regional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 06:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why are sales of fiction difficult at best, with about 1 work in 5 actually making money for the publisher? There are many reasons for it. Competition with other forms of entertainment is a very big issue, since a book requires a sturdy commitment; a video from Netflix can be popped into a laptop, watched, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=132&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vaca &#8211; Accion</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/vaca-accion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 05:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Memorial Day, the day when we honor those who died in wars for America. It started as a Civil War day, but we&#8217;ve had an awful lot of wars since then. It&#8217;s also the first day of summer in many ways, a more joyful thing to mark.
So I&#8217;m taking my first day off from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=133&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Narrowing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/22/narrowing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 18:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a child first opens its eyes, it has no idea what it is looking at. All it has are bizarre images and an imagination that works to make sense of it all.
In between is a sense of wonder, the deep feeling that it all makes sense somehow if you just keep drinking it in. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=134&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scale</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/scale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 18:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that some large urban projects succeed where others fail? What&#8217;s the magic formula for revitalizing cities?
While I doubt there&#8217;s any one formula that can be applied everywhere, I do think that there are lessons that can be learned everywhere, in cities all across the globe. Having been around just a little bit, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=135&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Hand on the Pump</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/19/invisible-hand-on-the-pump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 07:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gasoline prices have spiked to the highest levels ever seen in the USofA, somewhere between $3.60 and $3.80 per gallon (about $1.00 per litre). That causes a lot of pain for people who drive 40k miles per year at 20 miles per gallon (pretty close to the average for commuters) and run up a tab [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=136&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Music</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/16/ancient-music/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 07:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a hardcore Ancient Music freak. I avoid the term &#8220;Classical&#8221; because of the connotations that it&#8217;s somehow elevating and needs to be forced onto kids. Despite that, however, it&#8217;s always on in the car and I cajole my kids into learning some appreciation for it:
&#8220;Kids, what do you hear now?&#8221;
&#8220;A violin.&#8221; &#8220;The whole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=137&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Motion</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/electric-motion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 06:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about electric cars lately. No, not because I plan to buy one &#8211; that would take actual money. It&#8217;s partly because we may need a second vehicle in the family just because the local transit system is not very good. It&#8217;s also because I saw a few brands of electric cars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=138&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In the Translation</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/in-the-translation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 06:12:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many novels are collaborations. The Great Gatsby, for example, proved to be almost too much for F. Scott Fitzgerald, so his editor Max Perkins had to take over much of the heavy lifting. While many nameless people at the publishing house don&#8217;t get credit for their contributions to a work, it&#8217;s very unusual for that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=139&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still Over &#8211; Very Over</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/still-over-very-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 05:12:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not usually one to brag. This whole blog thang isn&#8217;t about me, after all, but about the ideas and perspective I think need to come into our discussion about the changing world around us. There are different ways of looking at things that can make our lives much simpler and understandable, if we only [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=140&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hear the Quiet</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/hear-the-quiet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 17:57:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said here that no one should feel bad about not understanding the recent credit meltdown, since the people who are supposed to understand it don&#8217;t either. That&#8217;s not exactly true, as I&#8217;d guessed any discerning reader would realize, but the voices of reason have long been drowned out by the shouts of those who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=141&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Enlightenment and Excess Sugar</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/06/enlightenment-and-excess-sugar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 06:04:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday again, and time to answer my mail.
Doctor Who hardly qualifies as Sci-Fi. Just because a show has a lot of aliens and gadgets that&#8217;s not enough to qualify.
Oh, I don&#8217;t worry about these categories. I freely admit that Dr. Who is as much Fantasy as Sci-Fi, but I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s important. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=142&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cola Warriors</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/cola-warriors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 06:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the more amusing features of life in the USofA is the steady parade of things that are found to be bad for you. Studies are done constantly that show there is a risk of some health problem from nearly everything in our highly processed and man-made world.
I don&#8217;t doubt that many of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=143&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Core: Life</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/urban-core-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 06:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the fourth and last in a series on cities in the USofA. The first entries can be found here:
Urban Core
Urban Core:  Lessons
Urban Core:  New Urbanism
What is the purpose of a city?
I asked that question several blogs ago both in what might seem like a rhetorical flourish. It isn&#8217;t. This is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=144&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fantasy and Perspective</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/fantasy-and-perspective/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine what your life must look like from a distance. You spend a lot of time bizzy and bizzier only to flop down from exhaustion at the end of a week. The minor irritations caused by your family or boss or anyone don&#8217;t seem anywhere near as important when you try to explain them to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=145&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Net-Work&#8217;d</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/net-workd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is mail day, and we have a special kind of event. Perhaps even a &#8220;special&#8221; event. This time we visit some old television shows, &#8220;The Rockford Files&#8221; meets &#8220;The Twilight Zone&#8221;.
I was watching an old &#8220;Rockford Files&#8221; DVD from netflix on Sunday, since season 4 only recently came out. In the middle of another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=146&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Core: New Urbanism</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/urban-core-new-urbanism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third in a series on cities in the USofA. I don&#8217;t yet know how many there will be total. The first entries can be found here:
Urban Core
Urban Core:  Lessons
It&#8217;s one of those great stories that might as well be true. The legend is that General Eisenhower, touring a conquered Germany, saw [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=147&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Core: Lessons</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/urban-core-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 05:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second in a series on cities in the USofA. I don&#8217;t yet know how many there will be total. The first entry can be found here:
Urban Core
In the 1960s, many people realized that cities in the USofA were dying. There simply wasn&#8217;t any strong purpose for them as we moved from a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=148&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Core</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/urban-core/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the purpose of a city?
I&#8217;ve asked this question many times, and I have yet to get a good answer. It&#8217;s not a trivial or esoteric thing to ask because as we work to revitalize our cities in the USofA we need to know the economic and social niches we are trying to fill. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=149&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>But Fear Itself</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/22/but-fear-itself/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 05:54:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a thin day today. It&#8217;s time to answer mail, but I&#8217;ve been hit with a lot of one-liners lately. I think it&#8217;s because Spring is coming to Saint Paul and we all have better things to do than comment on blogs at length. Well, I&#8217;m trying to scrounge up work so I have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=150&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cultural Catholic</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/cultural-catholic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 06:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pope Benedict XVI&#8217;s visit to the USofA has given many people a reason to think about what it means to be Catholic. This is a secular land where religious identities and practices meld and mix with each generation. What is a Catholic in this world?
This is an important line of thought for me as well, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=151&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Taxing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/taxing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:11:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I finished my taxes, barely on time. The last minute rush to get them in is a feature of life in the USofA; even if you got yours done early, you hear a lot of carping from the many procrastinators around you.
Through the last generation or so, since Reagan was elected, people in the US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=152&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Light &amp; Fluffy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/light-fluffy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of us in the USofA, it&#8217;s the day our taxes are due. I&#8217;ll keep it brief.
This is Tuesday, the day that I post some of your letters. Author&#8217;s Den recently implemented comments with each post, which made me think of abandoning this little ritual. Sadly, you have to be a member of Author&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=153&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Work</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/14/work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A century ago, work was hard and physical. People mostly worked in either factories or fields and produced something tangible at the end of the day or season. Work was all about manipulating the real world and making things.
The kids who grew up in this world rarely had more than an eighth grade education. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=154&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Barometer</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/10/human-barometer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a grey and dreary day, nearly everyone is running a bit low. You can see it in people&#8217;s faces &#8211; they&#8217;d rather snuggle under a blanket with the cats up close and warm. Some of us, however, are even more sensitive to the weather than that. We are the human barometers.
It starts out as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=155&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bad Girls</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/bad-girls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My kids tell me just enough that I can divine things have changed. The world they are learning about will one day be theirs on their terms. But for now, it&#8217;s my job to help them make sense of it. That means I have to make some sense of it first.
When I was young, little [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=156&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Meal on a Dreary Day</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/08/a-good-meal-on-a-dreary-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Apr 2008 05:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a gloamy day in Saint Paul, with the threat of more liquid life hanging over us as if Spring doesn&#8217;t exactly want to come yet. This is my mail day, when I answer my letters. I love doing this, because your cheery letters make blogging worthwhile for me!
Kudos on staying on this a year! [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=157&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Year On</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/06/one-year-on/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here it is, another wet and grey April day. Just yesterday we celebrated the arrival of spring by opening the doors of the shed and pulling out bikes and charcoal grills. Today, it is raining and cold. Spring and warmth and growth and an easy life doesn&#8217;t come at us all at once, but it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=158&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not at Any Price</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/04/not-at-any-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many reasons why banking should be boring. The most important reasons can be complicated, such as the simple fact that fancy new financial instruments actually increase instability in the entire system, or very simple, such as the need for a certain level of democracy and thus understanding in basic financial systems. But there&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=159&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Winning Through Acting Crazy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/winning-through-acting-crazy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many years ago, I spent an insomniac&#8217;s childhood watching teevee late at night. Being a bit awkward and easily embarrassed, this was my connection to common culture. I learned a lot from Big Wilson and his all-night all-stars, but I also had a chance to catch some of the experimental stuff that was consigned to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=160&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Press(ure)</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/more-pressure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, the day I answer my mail. Sadly, I haven&#8217;t gotten as much of it as I&#8217;d like lately (what, do you all have Spring fever or have I been tedious?). Between that and being rather bizzy I&#8217;ll keep it short.
You said you&#8217;d lay off politics for a while. You sure came back to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=161&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Message = Medium</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/message-medium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:53:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s no category in the book world hotter than Teen / Young Adult. Publishers are constantly rushing out titles and bookstores are still expanding the shelf space allotted to them. Part of the allure is that this is a new offering and the audience is expanding. A closer look tells us that this isn&#8217;t really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=162&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Anything is Possible</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/anything-is-possible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I was young, I lived in a time and place where just about anything was possible. It&#8217;s amazing just how terrifying that prospect was.
I was only 3 years old when 1968 happened. If you take this year as one event, we had the Tet Offensive in Vietnam, the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=163&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, Not Again</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/yes-not-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine that a new technology comes along that spawns a whole new industry. Not only is this industry a revolution in how people lead their lives, it&#8217;s immensely popular and generates a big pile of cash. The field starts out wide-open with many small entrepreneurs, but gradually they become rich as they are bought out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=892&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fit, Print, Whatever</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/fit-print-whatever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 16:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US election hasn&#8217;t been as heated over the last week, so perhaps it&#8217;s time to take a deep, cleansing breath. Inhale, hold it &#8211; exhale &#8211; good. We can all step back from the heat of the moment to think about what&#8217;s going on for a while.
Now that we&#8217;re all in a calming place [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=164&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ars Gratia Fructis</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/ars-gratia-fructis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 17:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, the day I answer my mail. I&#8217;ve gotten a lot in the last week, a lot of it in response to my series &#8220;Generations&#8221; on the potential for major generational change in the US election of 2008. But first, I liked this one:
I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s fair to focus on the publishing industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=165&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations: Empire</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/generations-empire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:50:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my fourth installment of a series examining how the election of 2008 might be changed by as much as 45% of the electorate belonging to the Gen-X or Millenial Generations. You can find the previous entries here:
Generations
Generations:  Institutionalized
Generations:  Do the Right Thing
The United States of America is, by far, the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=166&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations: Do the Right Thing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/18/generations-do-the-right-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is my third installment of a series examining how the election of 2008 might be changed by as much as 45% of the electorate belonging to the Gen-X or Millenial Generations. You can find the previous entries here:
Generations
Generations:  Institutionalized
Because of the color of Barack Obama&#8217;s skin, race will play a role in this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=167&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brief Commercial Message</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/brief-commercial-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Tuesday! This is usually the day I answer my mail, but I haven&#8217;t gotten much this week. I&#8217;m also in the middle of a 4-part series called &#8220;Generations&#8221; about the generational changes that are taking place in the election of 2008, and I&#8217;ll answer that mail when it&#8217;s all over. Time for a brief [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=168&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations: Institutionalized</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/16/generations-institutionalized/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog entry I showed that there is a major generational change pending in the electorate, in which up to 45% of all voters will not remember the 1960s. You can find it here:
Generations
It&#8217;s easy to make too much of the change in generations. Each of them can only be considered significant to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=169&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generations</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/generations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the attention on the Presidential race of 2008, there is one key issue that has been largely neglected &#8211; the issue of generational change. Certainly, Barack Obama has an appeal to younger people who turn out in record numbers and often confound pollsters. How do they do that? The simple answer is that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=170&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. Patrick&#8217;s Day</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/st-patricks-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good people go to Heaven, but the Celts went everywhere. There isn&#8217;t a corner of the globe where you can&#8217;t find us if you look hard enough. Nations as far flung as Canada and Australia are largely Celtic in origin, and the majority of those Celts came from Ireland.
One nation has wandered the earth like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=171&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blinding Daylight</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/blinding-daylight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the first Tuesday of Daylight Savings Time! I hope everyone is saving lots and lots of daylight. I wonder after more than 40 years of this how much daylight is actually in the average American&#8217;s savings account. But that is beside the point, as this is the day I answer my mail. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=172&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Still Over</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/its-still-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 17:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I said a few weeks ago that I wasn&#8217;t going to say anything more about the Presidential race because there was nothing more to say. Since that time, many people have said many things, but strangely were able to miss the one thing that is important:
It&#8217;s still over. Only moreso.
We all read on Wednesday, 5 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=173&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pedestrian View</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/pedestrian-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:09:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently made a big mistake. That&#8217;s not a surprising admission, since I make big mistakes all the time. Just last weekend I was driving the wrong way on a one-way street, for one thing. Those kinds of mistakes I can handle, since I am only human. The mistake that I need to confess is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=174&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Straight Up Racist</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/04/straight-up-racist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been writing about both literature and race issues quite a lot lately. The saga of Margaret B. Jones, aka Margaret Seltzer, shows that I&#8217;ve been on to something.
She was the author of &#8220;Love and Consequences&#8221;, a memoir of growing up in a black foster family in South Central Los Angeles. Her tale was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=175&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stamp Them When They&#8217;re Small</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/stamp-them-when-theyre-small/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to Tuesday, also known as &#8220;Alamo Day&#8221; for Senator Clinton. Will she do it, or will she be humbled? We&#8217;ll know soon enough. The one thing you can count on are insightful letters from the fans of this humble blog answered blithely by me. I&#8217;ll start with a favorite topic:
I always wonder why someone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=176&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Schooled</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/schooled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This last week has been an important one in Minnesota political history. The DFL controlled Legislature succeeded in schooling the Republican Governor with three well-placed blows that may have greatly undercut his power for the rest of his term, not ending until 2011. More importantly, the way they accomplished it may mark an important turning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=177&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free at Last</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/28/free-at-last/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This leap day is many things, including the 52nd birthday of Gioachino Rossini. It also means that Black History Month is one day longer this year. I&#8217;ve written on what Black History Month means to me if for no other reason than I think it&#8217;s fair to demand this of paleo-maleos equally if it&#8217;s ever [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=862&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Theo-Rhetorical</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/theo-rhetorical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been giving far too much thought lately to the idea of Literary Theory. This is part of my effort to understand my fellow writers and other people in the writing industry. My college degree is in Engineering, not one of the social sciences, so my understanding of social theories is pretty limited. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=178&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moral or Political?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/moral-or-political/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 19:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Tuesday! This is the day when I answer my mail, and I have some good ones today. Let&#8217;s get right on it:
You said that you &#8220;don&#8217;t believe in morality&#8221;. I hope that doesn&#8217;t mean what I think it means.
No, I don&#8217;t think it does, but I had better explain myself. Let&#8217;s start with Merriam-Webster&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=179&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Flik Lit</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/flik-lit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On this Oscar Night, my mind is otherwise occupied. I have work to do and some serious politicking to practice. Besides, I have little interest in the show biz aspects of show biz. I will watch it a bit later just to see what Jon Stewart comes up with.
I stopped being excited by the Oscars [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=180&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fit to Print &#8230; and more!</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/fit-to-print-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/21/fit-to-print-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 17:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newspaper readership continues to decline in the USofA, with online readership not even beginning to make up the staggering losses in print. The most recent study I could find was by the Pew Research Center in 2006, which shows that from 1993-2006 the percent of people in the USofA who read a newspaper, in print [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=181&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to Sen. Clinton</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/19/letter-to-sen-clinton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 18:21:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Senator Clinton:
Like most Democrats, I went into the Primary season assuming that you would be the nominee for President. I was eager to see how the dust and feathers would fly because I was interested in hearing what you had to say more than anything else. That&#8217;s just how we get the press interested [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=182&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading and Learning</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/18/leading-and-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s the day after President&#8217;s Day, the strange little wannabee holiday that fills in the space between Dr. King Day and Memorial Day. It&#8217;s a good time to reflect on leadership and what it means, and that&#8217;s the kind of mail I&#8217;ve been getting lately.
Thank you for your piece on George Washington Carver. You made [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=183&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Carver</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/17/dr-carver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.&#8221;
In February, it is customary to put up images of Dr. George Washington Carver in our schools as part of Black History Month. Most people see his earnest and humble stare coming from the cheerful posters and think, &#8220;Oh, the peanut guy.&#8221; But he was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=184&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Primary Reader</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/15/primary-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people have been asking very good questions about the Democratic Primaries. Sadly, I don&#8217;t have any good answers &#8211; but I can give a few really lousy ones.
Q: Why are they called &#8220;Primaries&#8221;?
A: It&#8217;s what comes first, just like &#8220;Primary School&#8221;. That&#8217;s why they often behave like 6 year olds.
Q: What is the difference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1001&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ordem e Progresso</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/12/ordem-e-progresso/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The economy is on the minds of many Americans right now, which is the polite way of saying that things are pretty lousy. We&#8217;ve never seen a Fed cut the prime rate as much as 1.25 in eight days before, so we all have to wonder what the policy makers know that we don&#8217;t.
Things aren&#8217;t [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=185&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Class and Struggles</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/class-and-struggles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:14:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, the day that I answer mail. I&#8217;m thinking very seriously about moving over to a normal blog format that allows comments to improve the interaction here, so that I don&#8217;t have to do this.
This week I had a good conversation starter on a topic that I think deserves interaction. The basic question is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=186&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Write?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/why-do-we-write/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Feb 2008 17:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do we write? It&#8217;s a tough question. People put a lot of effort into blogs, but not too many of them are worth reading. Most of these will eventually cease to be amusing, stop being updated, and gradually dissolve as if there were never more than some kind of atmospheric turbulence. So why are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=187&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Streaming</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/07/streaming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When in doubt, you can always talk about the weather in polite Minnesota conversation. Since we usually have a doubt of some kind, Minnesotans tend towards weather as a reliable stand-by. It&#8217;s not controversial but it provides a nearly endless supply of entertainment much like driving a flaming bus through a wall of televisions, at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=188&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Still About People</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/still-about-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Feb 2008 06:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This might be a hard blog entry for me. No, it&#8217;s not because I was wrong about Obamania striking the nation &#8211; but because I really have to move on from politics for a while. The biggest event is over, and the Democrats are remarkably even while the Republicans look to continue sniping at a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=189&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fun Evening Ahead?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/05/a-fun-evening-ahead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 09:19:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just received an e-mail from a friend stating that I didn&#8217;t make any predictions for Super Tuesday, or at least not direct ones that can be pointed to and laughed at later. Being a Celt, it goes without saying that there&#8217;s no point in being interested in a sport if you don&#8217;t know how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=190&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Britney</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/03/britney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I never wanted to tell the world my opinion of Britney Spears. Far too many people have written about her in a way that clearly violates the basic privacy that decency demands. Her recent brief committal as a ward of the State of California changes that to at least some extent.
It has been clear to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=191&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soooper Tooosday!</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/02/01/soooper-tooosday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One week ago, I wrote that it was Bill Clinton&#8217;s world and we were only livin&#8217; in it. We haven&#8217;t seen him since. Granted, on that day, just about every pundit in the world weighed in on what the Hell was wrong with Bill, and after South Carolina most of Hillary&#8217;s people were ready to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=192&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crazy Train</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/30/crazy-train/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:13:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Twin Cities of Saint Paul and Minneapolis touch each other, and their Downtowns are just 9 miles apart. The reason that they formed separately is due to the changing needs through their early history as they drew their identities from Mother Mississippi. Saint Paul was located where there was an easy steamboat landing, vital [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=991&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred and Profane</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/sacred-and-profane/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned, it&#8217;s that I get a lot of mail when I write about spirituality and the economy. Funny pair, that is. Do I get a lot of mail because it&#8217;s something everyone is interested in, or because my take on them is a bit odd? It has to be the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=193&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Stuff</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/28/making-stuff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2008 06:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For all the hoo-hah and excitement of political campaigns, there is one issue that isn&#8217;t being talked about. That&#8217;s hardly a surprise, since it&#8217;s been a big issue my whole life and no one has really wanted to talk about it. But that doesn&#8217;t change the simple reality that a lot of the problems in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=194&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bill&#8217;s World</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/24/bills-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:43:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Bill&#8217;s world that we live in. It&#8217;s all about Bill.
That may be a harsh thing to say about our former President, Bill Clinton, but I can&#8217;t help but think that it&#8217;s how he sees it. When he has a score to settle, everyone else had better damned well look out.
Before I explain what the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=195&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Panic!</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/panic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 06:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have said before, it was only a matter of who showed signs of panic first &#8211; investors or the Fed. It happened almost simultaneously when it finally went down, but the call was for investors to make.
A number of things happened yesterday, but the big news was the emergency 3/4 point cut in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=196&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Airballs and Airbending</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/22/airballs-and-airbending/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2008 06:22:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all survived to see another Tuesday, meaning it&#8217;s time to answer my mail. I haven&#8217;t gotten as much this week as I&#8217;d like, but there were two that I simply have to answer.
The first is the most pointed:
So the polls in Michigan were wrong, just like they were in South Carolina. Your hero Zogby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=197&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/cold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jan 2008 19:01:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The cold this week is brutal. The temperature has been around 0F (-20C) for several days, and we have a few more to go.
In the grand scheme of things, it&#8217;s just an hiccup in the Jet Stream that points a small piece of it straight down from the North Pole, a 100 mile per hour [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=198&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spencer House</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/18/spencer-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jan 2008 07:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This year we celebrate 150 years of the Spencer House, the home I share with my partner in life, my kids and far too many animals in the West End of Saint Paul. It is one of the oldest houses in our city and listed on the National Register of Historic places.
We aren&#8217;t exactly sure [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=199&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avatar</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/16/avatar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the hottest trends in publishing right now is the continued expansion of the genre &#8220;Teen / Young Adult&#8221;, a category my book &#8220;Downriver&#8221; belongs in. Literature dealing with the difficulties faced growing up and having to make sense of an often senseless world teaches many great lessons and eases the burden placed on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=200&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, Hopes, and Dreams</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/politics-hopes-and-dreams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, the day that I answer my mail. The first question was rather blunt:
Who do you support in the Presidential race?
I was a Richardson guy, so I&#8217;m already out of it. I get to sit back and watch for a while, which I honestly prefer.
Your analysis showing that this is the first wide-open race [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=201&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feast or Famine II: The Wrath of John (Zogby)</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/feast-or-famine-ii-the-wrath-of-john-zogby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:15:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a follow-up to today&#8217;s post on how nooze is either ignored or manufactured. In the middle of primary season, what could be better than the manufactured nooze of polling?
Tomorrow&#8217;s Republican primary in Michigan is a very big deal, because a poor finish will likely end Mitt Romney&#8217;s candidacy. It also could validate McCain&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=202&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feast or Famine</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/feast-or-famine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:48:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Feast or famine. It&#8217;s a cycle that you have to understand if you would like to predict the stories that will be in the newspapers tomorrow.
I&#8217;ll start with the famine, or the process by which no one will tell the story at hand straight up. As a reporter, situations where no one wants to talk [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=203&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Madmen Only</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/10/for-madmen-only/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:15:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 74 bus pulled up to the curb and opened its doors in welcome. A few steps took me inside to the warmth and familiarity of the same short trip, made many days at the same hour to pick up my kids at school. I paid my fare with a plastic card and took my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=204&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paul</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 20:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day was just like many others. I was in the lab, setting up for a difficult titration that would take me hours to perform carefully. The work was absorbing and isolating, and I was lost in it. Suddenly, gingerly, Valerie walked into the lab without slipping on her protective goggles. She spoke carefully and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=205&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Horseraces and Horse Sense</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/horseraces-and-horse-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday is mailday, a tradition that I allowed to fall underneath the wave of tradition that took up the last two weeks. Today, it is back. Thanks for all your letters, which I love to receive as wabbitoid47 at yahoo.com. First up is this one:
You&#8217;ve been writing about politics a lot lately. The way you&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=206&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handicapping</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/handicapping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jan 2008 13:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As much as I hate the process, the presidential campaign is compelling. After all, whoever gets through this gets a chance to run a great nation right at the moment in history when it looks like it has &#8220;Fall of Rome II: The Wrath of the Con&#8221; written all over it. Why someone would want [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=207&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Talk</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/happy-talk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:32:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching coverage of the Iowa caucuses, and the speeches each candidate is obliged to give the cameras, I am reminded of an old-timey American tradition. No, it has nothing to do with great leaders of the past; their stately images seem long gone. The process reminds me much more of the Golden Age of Cartoons, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=208&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold and Warm</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2008/01/02/cold-and-warm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The morning starts with darkness all around us, a cold and unfriendly darkness that makes the warm dreamworld of bed hard to leave behind. There is no indication that we have to get up other than the clock. Nature tells us to snuggle down like bunnies under the porch, but the electromechanical whirl of time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=209&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Happy, um, New Year</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/happy-um-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 18:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hopefully you&#8217;re enjoying the warm glow that comes with a New Year. All the hopes and possibilities of a better year lay in front of us all. This is as good a time as any to dash them.
I don&#8217;t intend to be mean, but there&#8217;s nothing quite like a political and constitutional crisis looming to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=210&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Riot</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/31/riot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2007 06:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistan and Kenya are burning. The war in Colombia continues to simmer. Political violence is simply another tactic in some systems around the world.
Here in the USofA we don&#8217;t have that problem, at least right now. We have had our spasms of violence from time to time, but they have generally been confined locally. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=211&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bestsellers!</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/27/bestsellers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:12:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I tried to bring up the most important subject in writing, or at least the most important one I can think of. No, it&#8217;s not really about the metaphysical concept of a &#8220;Human Condition&#8221; or other esoteric stuff. I&#8217;m interested in why people buy books in the first place. After all, without that income [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=212&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do They Read?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/26/why-do-they-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do people read?
It&#8217;s more than just the bookend to a my previous question, &#8220;Why do we write?&#8221; Someone who is going to call himself or herself a writer will ultimately need readers to make that appellation stick; even Emily Dickinson found an audience posthumously. The readers are the customers, the people that pay in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=213&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Morning</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/25/christmas-morning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Christmas morning, and all is indeed calm. The animals and my partner and I snuggled under a warm blanked until rather late, doing nothing but lie there in the stillness of an extended family of mammals. Four cats, one dog, two humans &#8211; all had warmth to share.
Eventually, we all felt an urge to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=214&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>S. Claus, C-14</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/24/s-claus-c-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently learned that my youngest child still believes in Santa.
This might take some explaining. I have a strict policy of never lying to the kids about anything. They either get a straight answer to a question, or a reason why they won&#8217;t get a straight answer. Being a divorced father, however, the determination of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=215&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Darkness and Light</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/21/darkness-and-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is dark outside, a combination of the shortest day and a deep, mystical fog. The usual 8 hours and 41 minutes of daylight we can expect has been snuggled under what feels like a ground-hugging cloud, akin to being tucked under a warm blanket.
This is the end of the year traditionally. The new year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=216&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/19/memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m writing a rare Thursday blog because I have a rare purpose. I need your help.
As many of you know, I&#8217;m not exactly a published author. I write not for money, but for the cheap thrills and even cheaper therapy it brings. Or, as Bleeding Gums Murphy said in &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;,
The blues isn&#8217;t about makin&#8217; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=217&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes of a Child</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/18/eyes-of-a-child/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:54:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of the year, the holidays bring back memories that allow us to see the world, once again, through the eyes of a child. This is not some sentimental side effect of the rituals we go through, but is in many ways the reason they are important. A few moments spent contemplating this over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=218&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solstice</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/solstice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week is the big winter holiday &#8211; the Solstice. At 06:08 GMT on Saturday (just after midnight Central time) the northern hemisphere will being turning back towards the sun. We celebrate it by blowing out the many candles that are lit and enjoying a few moments without light or sound &#8211; just the music [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=219&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Glory and Promise</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/13/glory-and-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2007 19:12:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The winter clouds hung low over West Seventh Street as I walked down it today. Thick and bubbly, they cast a shadow of ice and cold yet to come which made me want to seek comfort in the Mad Hatter Café as quickly as I could get there. Before I could sprint inside, a new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=220&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Desperate Cry for Attention</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/12/desperate-cry-for-attention/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:38:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking about why people write.
It&#8217;s not at all obvious in many cases. Certainly, the vast majority of writing out in the world is done to convince or to inform, the latter often a form of convincing. When a church group tells the world, &#8220;We are having our Christmas food drive,&#8221; they are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=221&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Compound Interests</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/compound-interests/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:49:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I&#8217;ve gotten quite a few letters, and I picked out one that I thought was fairly representative.

With the financial mess that we see, I think there are two problems with what you have been saying. First, hasn&#8217;t this all been hyped in the media already so we know all about it already? Second, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=222&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Game</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/10/the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day that the Nobel Prize in Economics is presented to the men who laid the foundation of &#8220;Game Theory&#8221;. The basic idea is that in any complex system individuals behave according to the rules and develop a strategy for winning, or at least achieving their own personal goals. From there, setting up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=223&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Got&#8221; Nuthin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/got-nuthin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:26:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Holidays&#8221;, that generic term designed to offend no one, are upon us. There are so many things that come in the big package that defines December it&#8217;s hard to know where to start. Most people just dive in and get into the spirit of it all. Not me. I like to find amusement in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=224&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snow Day</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/snow-day/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 18:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A SEVERE WINTER STORM WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED ..
Have they ever issued a Humorous Winter Storm Warning? It&#8217;s always a very severe affair, never something lighthearted that we can all get into. You know, the kind of thing that goes down before the commercial break on the evening nooze, delivered by the guy with the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=225&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Real Way, Way Real</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/04/real-way-way-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I get mail. I love getting mail. Thanks to everyone who sends me mail, because despite my lack of a comment space here on this blog my intention is always to start a new dialogue about what I think the real points of contention are in today&#8217;s world.
One letter in particular was a good representation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=226&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Snowstorm</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/12/02/snowstorm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Dec 2007 20:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It came as expected, with all the usual omens. The driving wind out of the east picked up right on schedule with a chill that ran under the skin and deep into the bones and finally forcing its way into the subconscious. This wasn&#8217;t an ordinary storm. It was the first big storm of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=227&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progress</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/30/progress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first saw the idea articulated clearly by the great philosopher of our time, Scott Adams of &#8220;Dilbert&#8221; fame. The simple observation is that evolution works slowly, and the human brain has not changed significantly since we first stood erect on the grasslands of Africa. The amount of information this brain is expected to retain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=228&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tao Te Ching</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/27/tao-te-ching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 17:48:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are four books that I have handy when I am on the internet, because the right quotation from them can kill any argument. They are &#8220;The Prince&#8221; by Niccolo Machiavelli, &#8220;Rules for Radicals&#8221; by Saul Alinsky, &#8220;Democracy in America&#8221; by Alexis de Toqueville, and &#8220;Tao Te Ching&#8221; by Lao Tzu.
Granted, many real Taoists would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=229&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>As You Like It</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/26/as-you-like-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s another Tuesday, the day that I answer my mail. It&#8217;s nothing more than my attempt to make up for the fact that while Author&#8217;s Den has a wonderful system for cataloguing and displaying diverse works, it has a lousy blog template that doesn&#8217;t allow comments. Sorry. I didn&#8217;t come here for the blog, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=230&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saint Paul</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/25/saint-paul/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saint Paul has always been comfortable as just another Midwestern city in a way that Minneapolis cannot be. Our younger, more outgoing sister to the west has always had the bright lights of the big city in her eyes, and yearned to be a great beacon out on the prairie.
Not Saint Paul. We see a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=231&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Travel</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/travel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 09:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of those many phrases that pass beyond language to take on a meaning of their own is, &#8220;Travel broadens the mind&#8221;. I&#8217;ve never been sure what that means. If you&#8217;ve been traveling this week, as many of us have, perhaps you can figure it out.
Lao Tzu said this about travel in the Tao Te [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=232&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awareness</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/awareness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2007 07:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An article today off of Reuters extols a Stanford study published in JAMA showing that giving people pedometers causes them to walk more and lose more weight. The original paper was based on interviews and a review of previous studies. It appears that the studies were all done in the US, and thus the findings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=233&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Places Together</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/20/two-places-together/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday is mail day, and I don&#8217;t have a lot of quotes to give you. I had some wonderful letters on my story of the Saint Paul Christmas tree being dragged down West Seventh, but modesty prevents me from posting them here. I save this space for the provocative leaning towards nasty, and I just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=234&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/19/thanksgiving/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2007 06:56:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The day known as Thanksgiving fills this week in the USofA, between the big day on Thursday and our need to make it home ahead of that. It&#8217;s not a particularly American holiday, but it is a special celebration of our nation for many reasons.
A day of &#8220;Thanks giving&#8221; is traditionally around the harvest, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=235&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mechanical PR</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/16/mechanical-pr/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may have heard of the &#8220;Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest&#8221;. As a way to promote their createspace service that allows a wide variety of self-publishing, from books to music to movies, Amazon had an open manuscript submission for the first 5000 novelists. All valid entries would be read (!) and judged by a panel. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=236&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy and Light</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/14/heavy-and-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The air was heavy on Monday, the grey colored cold that rides like a burden on your back. It was a car-free day for me, so I had to walk back through this from a series of appointments on the Hill. Saint Paul is a city of 6 1/2 hills, but each one is always [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=237&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rollin&#8217; and Scratchin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/rollin-and-scratchin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:49:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I go to my mail, I want to point out a neat little summary from CNN on the latest financial crisis: Structured Investment Vehicles (SIVs).
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/news/0710/gallery.superfund/index.html
What&#8217;s happening here is that the sub-prime mortgage crisis moved on to being a mortgage industry crisis which went on to being a credit crunch which evolved into a commercial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=238&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lay Yer Dollar Down</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/11/lay-yer-dollar-down/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Nov 2007 19:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This humble essay is based on a simple fact that we might all find a bit fascinating, and the reasons why it happened. The fact in front of us is this: The Euro is now worth $1.47 and still rising fast. To see this over the last five years, take a gander at the currency [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=239&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Smarts</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/09/smarts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Nov 2007 05:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing for twenty years that the future of the USofA belonged to &#8220;knowledge workers&#8221; &#8211; people who are visionaries who break outside of the usual boxes we live our lives in.
Sad that it&#8217;s all bullshit.
Call me bitter if you want, but I&#8217;ve been putting this theory to the test lately. I&#8217;ve made it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=240&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Local</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/local/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All politics is local, but local politics is plain personal.
Yesterday was the culmination of our city council election cycle in Saint Paul. The great mystery of Democracy worked its way across our city as people did their part to confound all the expert predictions. In the end, it wasn&#8217;t all that surprising, with slate of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=241&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elections</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 07:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the day I answer mail.
I don&#8217;t have much to say, except thanks to all the people that voted for me in the Best Literature Blog contest at weblog awards:
http://2007.weblogawards.org/polls/best-literature-blog-1.php
Special thanks to Breeni and Jon Swift and the mysterious SPicy for giving me blog links. I think there are a few more, but I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=242&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Platforms</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/04/platforms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:34:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To be a successful writer, you have to first develop a &#8220;platform&#8221;. This is a publishing term for a loyal fan base that will buy just about anything you write. It only makes sense, in the way that cultivating regulars at a bar gives the owner a stable base to pay the mortgage from. What&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=243&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gutenburgistas</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/11/01/gutenburgistas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 17:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The internet is a writer&#8217;s medium. Anyone can publish absolutely anything, and therein lies part of the problem. In the warm glow of a CRT screen, what is it that you want to read? No matter how you twist and turn, no laptop will ever be as personally comfortable as a cold book. If we&#8217;re [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=244&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shadows</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/shadows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 05:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The feast of Samhain, or Summer&#8217;s End, is the most important in the Celtic Calendar. The shadows become longer. Winter is at hand.
On this day the heart fires are extinguished for a night, showing that even Brigid, the all-powerful goddess of hearth and home, must bow to the change of the seasons. The world of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=245&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Saleable</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/saleable/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In sifting through my letters, I came to realize that I don&#8217;t have any negative comments to share with you this week. Sorry for the lack of entertainment. But I&#8217;d like to share with you something I received from a publisher about &#8220;Downriver&#8221;, which is still my only book:
If I were a junior high age [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=246&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tea</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/tea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:38:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year, there&#8217;s nothing I enjoy more than a cup of tea. When the air becomes thick and the moisture hangs low in wisps of fog, the steam from my mug warms my nose and soon enough my gut. I am refreshed.
It is the break in the moment that makes it special. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=247&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crispin, be Remembered</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/crispin-be-remembered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many holidays have been proclaimed for various reasons. Some are important, some are trivial. Martin Luther King Day took a long fight to become a holiday, Columbus Day has largely passed on without a fight. But October 25th is one holiday that could be added to our calendar, a holiday that celebrates something I am [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=248&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faking It</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/faking-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2007 06:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has an off day. We&#8217;re not machines, and we&#8217;re subject to influences ranging from small perceived slights to illness to simple changes in the weather. If you&#8217;re in some position of leadership, however, you can&#8217;t let these affect you.
My son had a wonderful kindergarten teacher, Mary, who I would periodically observe from the floor [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=249&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post Dispatch</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/23/post-dispatch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s mailbag has been very light. I have to say, I&#8217;m worried that people don&#8217;t care about me anymore. After all, I&#8217;ve written about my doubts on the human origin of global warming and got nothing. No one even bothered to call me an idiot or wacko. I outlined my plan to change the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=250&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Job Blob</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/21/job-blob/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2007 18:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I decided that I needed to find at least a part-time job to supplement my income from freelancing. Grant writing has been too up and down for me, and I&#8217;d rather have something to count as a regular income. The first step in doing this has been learning how the job hunting game is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=251&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MEA Weekend</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/mea-weekend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota has an extra holiday, all its own. The third Thursday and Friday of October are what we call &#8220;MEA Weekend&#8221;, the time when the state teacher&#8217;s union holds their annual seminar and convention. The kids have off from school for it, so a large hunk of the state simply shuts down. Nevermind that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=252&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mousketeer</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/mousketeer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=253</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before my regular blog entry for the day, I would like to make an announcement:
Annette Funicello will turn 65 this Monday, 22 October 2007.
That&#8217;s right &#8211; the original Mousketeer and later star of &#8220;Beach Party&#8221; movies depicting an endless summer of fun will be eligible for Social Security.
The Baby Boom Generation is now officially old.
That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=253&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Novel Solution</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/17/a-novel-solution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=254</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The amount of effort that goes into writing a book is enormous. It&#8217;s hard work, and to me a kind of method acting where I do my best to be the characters for a short while. I let the characters figure out what they are doing and let the story flow like water. If you&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=254&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunspots</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/15/sunspots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=255</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Tuesday, which is the day I answer mail. But over the last week, I&#8217;ve gotten nothing but nice messages full of warmth and support. Thank you. I like getting these, I really do, as I rarely think my writing ability is remotely adequate (I can&#8217;t stand re-reading my own stuff after it&#8217;s published). But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=255&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/14/ghosts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=523</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter recently told me that for Halloween, her school allows the kids to dress up as anything they want. Anything except witches, that is. Apparently, some Christians found that to be offensive.
There was no word on dressing up like Jesus or the Holy Family, but my kids didn&#8217;t find that particularly interesting. Or funny. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=523&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voyages</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/voyages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:16:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=256</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day 515 years ago, the cry echoed quickly through the Santa Maria. After 70 days of nothing but ocean, with fear and boredom grumbling through the crew, there was something to shout. Land! Almost exactly where the captain expected to find Japan! A new trade route to Cathay was theirs, something that previously [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=256&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Obsolete Houses</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/obsolete-houses/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 18:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a chance to talk with a real estate agent who has many years of experience. He’s seen ups and downs, and knows what it looks like when an entire city is on its knees or reaching to the sky with great cranes working downtown. The latest cycle? It doesn’t surprise him one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=257&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Watching</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/watching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:39:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;ve corrupted our idealistic youth, there are a few other things I&#8217;d like to ask of my readers. First of all, please write to me and tell me what you think of my humble effort to understand the world. I love hearing from you all as wabbitoid47(at)yahoo.com.
Lastly, I was nominated by some of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=258&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distributed</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/07/distributed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=259</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Technologies can change the way we live in an integrated world. The twentieth century saw a tremendous number of changes in our lives based entirely on the influence of the car. What is important is not the technology itself, although it is possible to ruin the planet with a bigger, better idea run amok. What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=259&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bright Light</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/05/bright-light/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2007 06:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am rarely interested in current events. I believe that more often than not they are a shadow of what is actually going on in the world, and that it is better to look in the other direction, towards the light, to know the score. Looking into a bright light may seem better suited to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=260&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Soy Protein</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/soy-protein/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 06:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was walking in a dripping rain yesterday, on my way to pick up my kids after taking the bus. It was one of my car-free days of splashing in puddles, something I enjoy a lot. The gas station at the corner drew my attention, and I realized that I hadn&#8217;t eaten yet that day. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=261&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Point</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/10/01/making-a-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s question from my mail is a bit embarrassing:
&#8220;You said that violence is sometimes necessary to make a point. What does that mean?&#8221;
Ug. I regret saying that as a throw-away line, because it needs more explanation. First of all, the full quote comes from an interview I did to promote &#8220;Downriver&#8221; on Reader Views [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=262&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grace or Redemption</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/30/grace-or-redemption/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Sep 2007 16:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popular fiction, at its best, is like walking down the street holding a mirror facing outward. It starts as nothing more than a reflection of who we are as a society, but the spectacle of it forces us to want to improve ourselves. Our image is never as attractive as we&#8217;d like, so the temptation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=263&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Widgets</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/27/widgets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:37:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While dropping the kids off at school, I saw a bus picking up kids for a different school. We waited patiently as they clamored aboard and took their seats. Eventually, the flashing red arm folded up and the bus was on its way. Something occurred to me during this brief moment:
* School buses are required [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=264&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Expectations</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Dad has a theory to sum up all the changes he&#8217;s seen in his life, which started in the Great Depression. It is &#8220;The General Inflation of Everything&#8221;. His basic premise is that everything has gotten bigger, more expensive, and more involved than it was when he was young.
What does he mean by this? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=265&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Point is?</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/25/my-point-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday is my mail day. It&#8217;s time to be even more self-indulgent than usual to answer a burning question.
One common response I have can be put several ways. The nice version is:
You write about so many different things. What is your blog about?
The not so nice way is this:
What makes you such a know-it-all?
Today I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=266&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Access</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/access/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/24/access/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a time in big cities when access appeared to be everything. Maintaining a dense urban core was about developing jobs or attractions that drew large crowds. The key problem was moving large crowds of people in and out of the urban core.
This problem played out differently in every city in America, but most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=267&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Housewife&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/20/housewife/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8220;housewife&#8221; is antique, a relic of a bygone era. It isn&#8217;t used in polite conversation anymore because it is considered an insult. It appears a sneer, as the &#8220;Desperate Housewives&#8221; whose life is an unreflective farce where the comedy writes itself. Yet this role was once the foundation of family and community, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=268&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Equinox</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/19/equinox/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In time, a people and their culture come to resemble the land they live on and the climate around them more than anything else. I state that as a truism that seems to hold very well through history. Athens was a stable democracy as long as the wheat production went well, but descended into anarchy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=269&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Writing Back</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/18/writing-back/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:34:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy getting mail about this blog. Really, I do. While I&#8217;d like to respond to them, both in private and in public, this format doesn&#8217;t seem to be advancing the discussion I think we all want to have about the publishing industry. Or starting the fight we want to have, as the case may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=270&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Street Life</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/street-life/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/17/street-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:14:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=271</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the great changes in my life has been the loss of an active life on the street. Part of this is due to my moving from Miami to Saint Paul, the latter being a rather cold and quiet city. Some of this is a decline in a public life for everyone that I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=271&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cartoon</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/cartoon/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/cartoon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2007 07:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=272</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The trees are more vivid with color, and are made alive by a frisky wind. This time of year is a challenging and spooky one for many people because the energy of summer flails out in one burst, but we all know what happens when it is spent.
It was an especially trying time this year [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=272&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Greenback War</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-greenback-war/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/the-greenback-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 06:23:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often, I find something like this in my mail:
&#8220;You are obviously against the war in Iraq. Why don&#8217;t you speak out against it in your blog?&#8221;
I&#8217;ve thought about this a lot. I&#8217;ll give you the short version first:
Just because I know better than to put an aluminum ladder next to a power line [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=273&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fair Cop</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/a-fair-cop/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/a-fair-cop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=274</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For today&#8217;s mailbag, I think I&#8217;m going to leave one for tomorrow and answer some of the more fun comments I&#8217;ve had. I had this in response to my bit on Fairness:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewblog.asp?authorid=55121&#38;m=9&#38;y=2007&#38;blogid=24039
&#8220;I agree that &#8216;fairness&#8217; is a hard thing to create, but you seem more than a little hypocritical here. You said before that big [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=274&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small World</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/small-world/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/small-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=275</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard a few stories, large and small, about how the recent turmoil is effecting the global financial markets that I&#8217;d like to tell you about. Together, they paint a picture of just what can go wrong when too much is never enough.
First, the small story. Our city, Saint Paul Minnesota USofA, has an ordinance [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=275&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairness</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/fairness/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/08/fairness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 18:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Fairness is an important concept in this thing we call Civilization. If we all lived as hunters and gatherers on the grasslands, we wouldn&#8217;t have a lot of interaction with large groups of people. The inevitable disputes that arise could be settled by a simple code or the intervention of an elder.
People living close together [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=933&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>School Daze</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/school-daze/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/school-daze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:15:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday was the first day of school.
My kids are old enough that it&#8217;s not that big of a deal. Yes, they were looking forward to seeing their friends again. No, they didn&#8217;t like the idea of sitting in a structured environment all day. The week leading up to the big event was a combination of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=276&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publishing, Redux</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/publishing-redux/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/09/03/publishing-redux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=277</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I usually only write for my blog on a M-W-F basis. I have to make a living, after all. But recently I started getting some mail in response to entries I&#8217;ve made, and I thought that Tuesday or even Thursday might be good days to answer this.
I&#8217;ve said quite a lot about the publishing industry [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=277&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnicity</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/ethnicity/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/30/ethnicity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am an ethnic Pennsylvanian.
That may not make much sense to most people, but it does to me. This statement goes to the core of what ethnicity is and the strange fascination we have with it here in North America.
Ethnicity is supposedly about identity, or how the world is supposed to approach you. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=278&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Ya Know</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/who-ya-know/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/who-ya-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2007 18:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=279</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like to think I&#8217;ve found the secret to life.
I realize that&#8217;s rather arrogant, so bear with me for a while. If you&#8217;ve read my blog for any length of time, you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;m prone to grandious statements and deep subjects. By doing this I&#8217;m trying to provoke people to think outside of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=279&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Repo Voting</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/repo-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/27/repo-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Elections are turned on who shows up. A low turnout usually favors the more conservative candidate for a variety of reasons, so it&#8217;s up to the left to get people to the polls. For this reason, a Get Out The Vote (GOTV) strategy is an essential part of any Democrat&#8217;s campaign.
This is one of those [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=280&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sun</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/sun/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/24/sun/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 07:46:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is no force greater in our lives. Every morning the sun rises, the alarm goes off, and we crawl into the bathroom to start a new day refreshed. The earth has turned us towards the morning once again. We are having our first sunny day in a week.
Every place on our planet has the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=281&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Starving Artists</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/starving-artists/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/21/starving-artists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The image of a struggling artist is a powerful one in Western culture. Many people believe it is an artist&#8217;s lot to starve, and more importantly that depravation is an important part of the creative process. In this view, great art has a life of its own that comes from the birthing pains of anguish. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=282&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Juanita Bartlett</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/juanita-bartlett/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/20/juanita-bartlett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 07:06:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=283</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Many writers have influenced how I write. Vonnegut taught me about perspective, Hesse taught me character development. M�rquez taught me the importance of painting the reader into the moment. Dialogue is trickier, because my sense of it came from someone I don&#8217;t know all that well. What I can say is that it came from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=283&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stock Marks, not Market</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/stock-marks-not-market/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/17/stock-marks-not-market/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=284</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I admit it, I&#8217;m something of a perma-bear when it comes to the stock market. I believe that any time you put your money into something you cannot see, there is the potential for abuse. Multiply that by hundreds of millions of people investing hundreds of thousands of dollars, and eventually there will have to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=284&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Novel Writing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/novel-writing/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/15/novel-writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been involved with a number of discussions on the publishing industry and what it means for writers lately. They&#8217;ve been tough fights with writers and people from the industry getting quite emotional. I&#8217;d like to do my best to discuss the problem without getting carried away.
To me, the problem is simple &#8211; the publication [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=285&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Money</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/13/stupid-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, the Fed made $35 billion available to large investment banks to make overnight, low interest loans. This is a direct injection of cash into the investment world, and something just short of a sign of panic. The last time this was done was immediately after 9/11.
What does this mean? For starters, it means [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=286&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crappy Cars</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/crappy-cars/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/10/crappy-cars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=287</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like many good things in life, it happened both on purpose and by accident. I consider it a side effect of being a father, more than anything.
After years of car-free bliss, riding the bus where I had to, my (now ex) wife told me it was time to have a car. What with the baby [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=287&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>snafu</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/08/snafu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 07:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;snafu&#8221; entered our language in the Army during WWII. Apparently, the origin came from an encoder that translated English into five letter blocks of code. Some men at the Army base in San Louis Obispo started to think about what they might mean, and SNAFU became &#8220;Situation Normal, All Fucked Up&#8221;.
http://www.snafu.com/Snafu/SnafuStory.html
It caught on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=288&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>J.S. Bach</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/06/js-bach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The surest sign that I am running a frenzied pace of doing too many things at once is that I find myself feeling trapped in my car. I prefer to walk when I can, since the pace is metered out one step at a time, allowing me to digest it no faster than I make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=289&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I-35W Bridge</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/03/i-35w-bridge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine the terror of plummeting 63 feet into the Mississippi for a moment. The bridge underneath you has given you a few moments of warning as it pitched to one side, and then you are suspended in the air before that sickening splash. The water comes in as you know this is it. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=290&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heat</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/08/01/heat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 06:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heat of August is pooling around us, forcing us to swim more than walk though its heaviness. Every day this goes on is a bit more oppressive than the last, each push past the open door into the thickness a new struggle. Someday, soon, there will be a thunderstorm to wring out the atmosphere [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=291&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Illegal&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/30/illegal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:42:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The latest dust-up regarding immigration has lasted for several months. It seems to be a bit longer than the last several times that this has come up. Does that mean that something will come of it, something useful and reasonable?
I doubt it.
The more I read coming from one side, the more I am convinced that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=292&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prof. Powers</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/prof-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great teacher has died.
Professor Gary Powers was more than a Chemical Engineer. The lessons he taught us at Carnegie-Mellon were about problem solving skills and how important it was to rely on our colleagues. He made us work as a team to solve the most difficult things he could throw at us, and taught [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=293&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Harry Potter</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/harry-potter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:10:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within a few daze of the book coming out, I finished it. I won&#8217;t reveal any secrets (like Hermione being a boy &#8211; or was that &#8220;The Crying Game&#8221;?) and I won&#8217;t tell how it ends (but Harry and Voldemort plummeting over Reichenbach Falls was riveting). What I will do is outline my biggest complaints [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=294&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cat President</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/22/cat-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jul 2007 18:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The time has come for serious change. The time is now to elect my cat, Tony, as President of the United States.
I realize that you may not think he is qualified. Well, the Constitution does not specify you can&#8217;t be 35 cat-years old. Tony was born in the woods of Wisconsin, probably in a barn. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=295&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MCS</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/19/mcs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been helping a friend do some construction on his home lately. The work has been mainly tiling and masonry to button up his home with inert construction materials that do not contain nasty chemicals like formaldehyde and isocyanates.
My friend has Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (MCS), and he has it bad enough that reactions to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=296&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics and People</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/18/politics-and-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the great pleasure of sitting down for a few beers with people who are in politics as a profession or a significant hobby. If you have never met such people, you might be surprised by how they do things.
I know a lot of people like this in part because politics has been something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=297&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Authorial Omnipotence</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/16/authorial-omnipotence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:41:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The most common perspective for novels and other stories is one of authorial omnipotence. It also happens to be a point of view that I strongly dislike.
The basic idea is that in the world the author has created, they know everything. The storyteller is privy to what happens between characters and inside of them, at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=298&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conveyance</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/12/conveyance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a steel and glass cage moving at 80 miles an hour, time passes slowly. But time is the only tangible sensation you can count on.
I have spent too much time in a car lately going from one point to another. What I find most remarkable about the way I relate to these places is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=299&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Univision</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/univision/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a little secret shared by many Anglos who grew up in Spanish speaking parts of the United States. When we were kids, a lot of us turned the teevee to Univision, the Spanish network, even though we didn&#8217;t understand a thing.
Why did we do this? Nothing more than idle curiosity. We wanted to know [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=300&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tropopause</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/09/tropopause/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 06:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, the temperature reached 98F/37C in Saint Paul, with high humidity. Any trip outside was a swim through the air, desperately making as few waves as possible. But during all of this, I was always heartened to know that very cold air was only about 10 miles away.
Not across town, that is, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=301&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Big Ideas</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/big-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People love big ideas. They give our life meaning, our daily grind purpose. Big ideas are also how our basic decency is given away to serve those in power.
It doesn&#8217;t matter what kind of big idea you are talking about. &#8220;Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel,&#8221; is what Samuel Johnson observed. We have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=302&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Star Spangled Banner</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/03/star-spangled-banner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Americans think that we play &#8220;The Star Spangled Banner&#8221; at the start of sporting events because it is our National Anthem. In reality, it is our National Anthem because it was played at the start of sporting events.
The details are a bit murky, since there are several versions of the story. The most common [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=303&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>North America</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/07/01/north-america/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Between Canada Day and Independence Day in the United States there are few days to contemplate the different histories that together make up the North American experience.
We are all one people in many ways, along with Mexico, bound up by a ruggedness and vastness that typifies our nations. Our people all have a pioneering spirit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=304&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ex Machina</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/ex-machina/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2007 19:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people talk to each other, there is a social code of acceptable behavior. When they interact with machines, there is no such code. If there is a machine between two people, the rules seem to not apply as easily, and people often act as if they are dealing with a machine &#8211; because that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=305&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Catalpa</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/26/catalpa/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2007 20:43:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories are all around us. There is a reason behind how things are and why they were arranged the way they were. Sometimes, the stories are alive even as they stand in silence.
My hometown of Saint Paul has many relics of the people who first ventured west to pioneer the end of the Mississippi. Their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=306&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blogosphere</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/24/blogosphere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never understood the purpose of most blogs. I can see that it&#8217;s a fun hobby and a way to send friends an update, much like the letter sent with an Xmas card. A lot of people use it as a way to tell the world about their business. But some people treat it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=307&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Queuing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/queuing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As kids, we learn all the rules that get us a good mark in &#8220;Plays well with others&#8221;. One of them is how to form a queue or line and act like good little kids that do not frazzle our saintly elementary school teachers more than necessary.
This carries over into being a supposed adult. When [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=308&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Make No Small Plans&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/19/make-no-small-plans/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Make no small plans; they have no magic to stir men&#8217;s blood&#8221;
When Daniel Burnham said this, he was an architect who was at the top of an architect&#8217;s world. He was in the process of designing the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago, a neoclassical playground highlighting all the great gifts of the mechanical age and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=309&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Stories</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/telling-stories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people write to tell their stories. A successful writer has to learn how to tell everyone else&#8217;s story. This isn&#8217;t selling out, it is connecting yourself to the world so that your writing becomes bigger than yourself.
Everyone has a story. Sometimes it takes a drink or two to coax it out, but we all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=310&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Community</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/14/community/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:26:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d like to include a pointer to a recent article I posted on the essential elements of community:
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=30576
Why is such a thing needed? Everyone has a different definition of &#8220;community&#8221;. Most of these definitions are not all that useful when it comes to evaluating whether or not a project enhances community or not.
My sense of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=311&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Minor Leagues</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/12/minor-leagues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:30:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think of book agents as something akin to baseball talent scouts. These are the guys who sit in the bleachers at high school games and generally just watch. What are they looking for? What interests them more, raw talent or hustle? What brings them here, and will they be back? A real player who wants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=312&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For the Kids</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/11/for-the-kids/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why on earth would anyone want to be a writer?
In my case, I avoided the idea for many years. I won a few contests as a kid, and genuinely enjoyed writing. But none of it was really for the public. It was simply something I did. Is there a career based on breathing?
Four years ago [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=313&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wurst Writing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/07/wurst-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2007 22:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Laws are like sausages. It&#8217;s better not to see them being made.&#8221;
Otto von Bismark understood both well, being a German and a politician. What he could have included in this homily is writing.
I have had a terrible affliction lately. I cannot read anything because I find it all terribly inadequate. There is always a better [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=314&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Progressive</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/05/progressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are many ways to define &#8220;Civilization&#8221;. You could start with the plow and clay pots, working your way forward. Another option is to reference cultural icons and storytelling, if you want to take a literary approach. I, however, prefer to focus on the basic concepts of law and justice.
I grew up in Miami during [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=315&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Credentials</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/06/04/credentials/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2007 08:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By education, I am not a writer. The nice piece of paper says &#8220;Chemical Engineering&#8221; on it.
I don&#8217;t consider this to be a problem, however. I taught myself to be a writer largely by watching the world around me and gently crumbling it up onto a piece of paper with scribblings in English. Teaching myself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=316&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Band Concert</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/31/band-concert/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2007 19:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An elementary school band concert is often a chance for parents to understand just how much their parents suffered for them. It&#8217;s a shame that we discover this so much later, but that&#8217;s the way life is; sometimes you get paid ahead, sometimes you get paid back.
In my case, my daughter has been playing flute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=317&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Institution</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/30/institution/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2007 20:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nick Mancini&#8217;s long twilight has ended. He died last Tuesday at the age of 80.
For those of you who don&#8217;t know the West End of Saint Paul, Mancini&#8217;s Char House is nothing less than an institution. His boundless energy and grace made it what it was through nearly 60 years, growing from a humble bar [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=318&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Publiosity</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/publiosity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 May 2007 19:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s no secret to people here that the publishing industry is in disarray. The cost of printing is up due mainly to the cost of paper and labor. At the same time, publishing companies have an archaic system that allows unlimited returns of unsold product, resulting in about one third of all books being remaindered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=319&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honor and Sense</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/honor-and-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 May 2007 07:49:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that you want to honor a great writer or other person whose work helped to make you who you are.
Would you do this through a cheap parody that you wrote quickly without ever thinking it through? Would you take just one of the themes that you loved and use it completely out of context, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=320&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>King O&#8217;er the Water</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/24/king-oer-the-water/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2007 20:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My daughter recently learned &#8220;The Skye Boat Song&#8221; in school. For those of you who don&#8217;t know it, the song recounts the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie, legitimate heir to the throne of Scotland and England, away from his lands and into exile. The King Over the Water. It&#8217;s a beautiful, longing song of melancholy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=321&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Counts</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/23/everything-counts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2007 00:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of attending a banquet for the West Seventh Community Center honoring a man who is part of the glue that holds our community together, Father John Clay.
Father Clay is 81, but doesn&#8217;t look any different than he did 20 years ago. &#8220;I looked old then,&#8221; he will tell you. More importantly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=322&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Numbers Game</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/21/numbers-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 07:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real truth about our world is all around us. In these industrial-age times there are people that measure, tabulate, and report all kinds of different things. There are two problems with this.
The first problem is that you have to ask how people made their calculations. If they have an axe to grind, you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=323&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elected Attorney General</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/18/elected-attorney-general/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2007 15:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The controversy with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales boils down to the supposed wall that exists between the AG and the President. The independence of the former has been a sore spot for Congress since Watergate. Sen. Arlen Specter has pointed out several times that safeguards were in place which were removed when Gonzales, a close [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=324&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Car Free</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/car-free/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2007 19:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been leading a car-free life lately. With only one in the family, my partner takes it most of the time to hit her job in suburban lands. That leaves me with the bus.
The main advantage of a bus is that even the shortest trip becomes a small adventure. Yesterday, a man chatted with everyone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=325&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cold Front</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/15/cold-front/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2007 20:46:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as I walked outside, I felt it. The silky warm haze of summer that was wrapped around us unexpectedly fell to reveal a sharp and biting cold. The air was alive and eager for some kind of action. It is spring, once again, in the middle of a large continent. Anything can happen.
I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=326&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fortune Telling</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/13/fortune-telling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 21:38:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is the one thing that man has not mastered. For all of our ability to move around this little ball called Earth, we cannot change where we are in time. But can you imagine if we knew the future?
&#8220;Robert James Orff was born today in Saint Paul. He will graduate from Highland High School [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=327&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Distant Voices</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/11/distant-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 05:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Say for a moment that you have a manufacturing operation in Malaysia. Since we don&#8217;t make much stuff in the USofA these busy days of a sleepless planet, it&#8217;s not unreasonable. You call them up at some bleary-eyed time to find out how it&#8217;s going:
&#8220;So, how are things?&#8221;
&#8220;Good. You flying out here soon?&#8221;
&#8220;Um, no. It&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=328&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Value</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/09/value/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2007 06:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is anything worth? What is the real value of any thing or skill or company? A good answer is &#8220;What the market will bear&#8221;, but any examination of that phrase leaves an empty feeling in the stomach of someone trying to get what they can for whatever it is they have to sell. A [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=329&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Disposable Buildings</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/07/disposable-buildings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 07:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The old Target store on University Avenue in Saint Paul is being torn down, to make way for the parking lot of the new SuperTarget.
So what?
At its most visceral, the most striking part is how incredibly ugly the scene is. When a large building goes down, even one built as little more than a large [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=330&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Energy Alternatives</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/04/energy-alternatives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 07:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I should include a link from here to a longer article on Energy Alternatives.
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?id=29519
This is my list of the key technologies I think we need to develope to make my home of Minnesota independant of energy imports.
Thank you all for reading, and please drop me a line if you like what you see, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=331&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voice</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/05/01/voice/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2007 07:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I came to pick up my son from school, another young boy was having a bad day. He was inconsolable, sobbing loudly in the hall despite the best efforts of the teacher&#8217;s aide who took him out. She tried her best to calm him, offering to read or play with him in short, breathy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=332&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>McNews</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/30/mcnews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 06:51:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have we read the really big story on the front of the newspaper with great interest? How often have we talked about it with our friends and colleagues the next day?
I am always amused by the kinds of stories that make it to the front of the paper. Scandals among leaders are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=333&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jebediah Effect</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/26/the-jebediah-effect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[ This first appeared in Columbus Day Riot, my blog-before-blogs, in 1999. It still works. ]
The Embiggening of Everything
&#8220;A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man&#8221; is the quote that stands under the statue of Jebediah Springfield in the center of Springfield Park on &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221;. Forgetting for a moment that this is just a cartoon [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=334&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Public Realm</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/25/public-realm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:37:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world passes slowly by my front porch. On a heavy spring day there is a steady parade of people who go by, mostly on their way to nowhere but some time outside. Our world designates this the &#8220;public realm&#8221;, the empire of everyone. And so it is.
When there are no people, the ghosts pass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=335&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Four Leaves</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/24/four-leaves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2007 08:05:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Luck is sometimes where you find it. Or how you look for it.
With the damp arrival of spring over, our park has the first clover of the year peeking out of the ground. They are small and round and tender, not much to work with yet. But it&#8217;s good to get a head start on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=336&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Media Outlets</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/media-outlets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 07:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Big Media = Big Box.
News outlets these days are almost invariably regional. Newspapers and teevee are about the same, in that they all cover an entire &#8220;metro region&#8221; or a multi-county area. There is only one way that they can sustain this.
In your own life, your ability to influence things and thus your interest in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=337&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Line of Thought</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/a-new-line-of-thought/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:21:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The synopsis is a simple premise. Our politics is polluted by a lack of appropriate language. The shorthand we use to denote political thought and action is outdated, reflecting the struggles of generations long passed.
The old &#8220;left&#8221; and &#8220;right&#8221; are increasingly useless and diversionary, and they must be overcome. This change is not so much [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=338&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Politics, Interest, and Democracy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/19/politics-interest-and-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Politics&#8221; is a dirty word.
A common phrase in our world is that we &#8220;need to keep politics out&#8221; of a given situation. It seems to come from a noble intent, which is the desire to make rational decisions that are best for everyone. But what is it that we are trying to keep out?
Webster&#8217;s dictionary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=339&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sense</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/making-sense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It happens every once in a while in our nation. An event that can only be described as &#8220;senseless&#8221; by the media, by politicians, by everyone. The assumption is that such an event stands apart because the rest of the world somehow does make sense. That is the mistake at the heart of it all.
Mass [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=340&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Naked Emperor</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/16/naked-emperor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:24:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life these days is a constant &#8220;the Emperor has no clothes&#8221; situation.
The people who are supposedly in charge do not genuinely know much more than you do about the world and how it is spinning. They can guess at probabilities of success, but an honest assessment never precisely assures victory; that information has to be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=341&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barking in the Night</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/14/barking-in-the-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dog August has a tendency to bark at strangers across the street in the park. He does this especially in the middle of the night, when people are not supposed to be there.
With a little reassurance he will stop. He knows that we are his pack, and if the rest of the pack is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=342&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kurt Vonnegut</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/12/kurt-vonnegut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:25:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A great hero of literature, Kurt Vonnegut, has died.
Old age wound up suiting him well, allowing him to live as a sage. He enjoyed dispensing pithy truths from on high, a prophet who lived long enough to see his prophesies come to pass. He would bristle at this, telling us that in time all things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=343&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>All the News That Fits, Prints</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/all-the-news-that-fits-prints/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News is something that is hard to define. Events happen all around us, but which of these is &#8220;newsworthy&#8221;? Who gets to make that choice?
Traditionally, what qualifies as &#8220;news&#8221; has been defined to a great extent by the number of trees that are slain to make slabs of thin paper for printing. The other great [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=344&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It was a dark and stormy night &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2007/04/10/it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky has grown grey and heavy. The wind is from the East, which always hits like a knife to the back. Bad weather is never a good reason to start a blog, but it is the only excuse I have. I am retreating inside, an instinctive response to the betrayal of April, but still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=345&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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