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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>Retelling the Reality</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/retelling-the-reality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1989</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The subject came up, as so many of these things do, while trying to explain things to my daughter.  She understands that ordinary people banding together made great history happen.  But there are so many holes that don’t entirely make sense until we get into it a bit deeper, such as Women’s Suffrage.  A bunch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1989&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Demographic Destiny</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/demographic-destiny/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/demographic-destiny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When Norman Borlaug died recently at the age of 95, his obituary included one of the most extraordinary claims that any human could ever possibly make.  Because of the “Green Revolution” that he pioneered, the ability of this planet to produce food to support the human population was dramatically increased.  The use of fertilizers and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1979&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>All Politics is Local</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/all-politics-is-local/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/all-politics-is-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:06:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1963</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday is Election Day here in Saint Paul.  It hasn’t been an exciting election, but that only figures.  As the economic situation continues, there’s little for local governments all across the nation to do but settle in for a long siege.  There’s a good reason for this.
Local elections can be a lot of fun.  Since [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1963&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Helical Waves</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/helical-waves/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/helical-waves/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1948</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been thinking about waves lately.  Waves as a concept, waves as a constant, waves as the continuity that ties so many things that don’t seem related together.  This is one of those columns that might not make a lot of sense, but I hope you can bear with me.  It’s a dark fall day [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1948&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Skills</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/skills/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/skills/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s one thing to preach the values of keeping your eyes open and your mind awake to the endless possibilities of the world.  It’s often quite another to learn how to do this.  As a father, I’m constantly aware my duty to not only teach my children but teach them how to keep learning every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1932&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Lighter than Air</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/lighter-than-air/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/26/lighter-than-air/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1913</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I read that Rush Limbaugh fell for a hoax that was said to be a college thesis by President Obama, I immediately thought of the old joke.  What’s the difference between Rush Limbaugh and the Hindenburg?  One is a flaming Nazi gasbag, and the other is a dirigible.  This doesn’t come to mind just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1913&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Reboot</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/reboot/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/reboot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Urban Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1901</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It happens all the time.  You are working away, doing absolutely nothing wrong, but deep inside the system there is an unseen flaw.  Everything starts to bog down, and eventually you see it’s come to a screeching halt.  The only choice you have is to reboot, a three-fingered salute done with either a flourish or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1901&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Scene, Unseen</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/scene-unseen/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/scene-unseen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What we know about our past is often heavily filtered through something like “conventional wisdom”. Certain “great men” are raised up as heroes while others are confined to the footnotes of history.  The names that we hear often get credit for far more than they deserve as they ossify into myths, people who are bigger [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1889&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Big Mac Index</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/big-mac-index/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/19/big-mac-index/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 01:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Very few people in the USofA have ever worried about currency exchange, at least once they returned from a vacation in another nation.  The US Dollar has been a stable rock in the world that simply has not been subject to the ups and downs of foreign commerce as much as other currencies.  That may [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1884&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Just Sayin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/just-sayin/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/just-sayin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 05:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1872</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every language has a few words or phrases that are used because everyone is used to them.  Some of them work pretty well, but others are used in silly ways.  If you take the world at face value, some of them are literally very funny without meaning to be.
You can call them clichés if you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1872&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">wabbitoid</media:title>
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		<title>Newsbobber</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/newsbobber/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/newsbobber/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1865</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the hottest topics in journalism is the future of the craft itself.  Newspapers are laying off reporters at a rapid clip at the same time that technology has made “citizen journalists” out of any blogger willing to take up the handle.  What is the future of a profession that appears to be in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1865&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Dia de la Raza</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/dia-de-la-raza/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/dia-de-la-raza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nooze]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1860</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today is an important holiday throughout the Spanish-speaking parts of the lands we know as The Americas.  Not one land but many, they are all united by the simple fact that on 12 October 1492 their worlds changed forever.  The holiday is known throughout most of these lands as Dia de la Raza, which translates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1860&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Sense of Place</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/a-sense-of-place/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/a-sense-of-place/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:04:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The thesis is simple – cars are the enemy of strong cities.  Despite a tremendous amount of writing on this topic, people’s opinions on the matter have rarely changed – they either agree with this idea or they don’t.  There isn’t a lot of middle ground.  But as we come to understand networks more intuitively, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1852&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">wabbitoid</media:title>
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		<title>Young at Heart</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/young-at-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/07/young-at-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An economy that is struggling needs an injection of cash to get it going again, at least according to basic Keynesian economic theory. That’s more or less what our government is doing right now, and  we’re running up massive debts in order to do it.  The biggest concern is how this debt will cripple the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1845&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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			<media:title type="html">wabbitoid</media:title>
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		<title>ForEx is Foretold</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/forex-is-foretold/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/forex-is-foretold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:34:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A year ago, the realities of the economy were just beginning to sink in.  The situation that we know now as a Recession, Depression, bailout, or whatever you want to think about didn’t happen overnight, but realization of it came to most people very quickly, like a nightmare that hit just as the clock was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1840&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Pattern Language</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/a-pattern-language/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/10/02/a-pattern-language/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:14:31 +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=1838</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On a cold, rainy day there’s nothing like a stolen moment waiting for a prospective client and a thick book to fill it.  What makes it even more profound is when I have a small fixation rattling around in my head and the book is the tome that ties together all the little pieces of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1838&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Social Networks</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/social-networks/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/30/social-networks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1832</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everything we do is influenced by social networks.  That’s what Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler argue in their book, &#8220;Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives&#8220;.  While it might seem obvious that if people you meet on a daily basis are upbeat and happy you’re more likely to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1832&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Anime</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/anime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 01:07:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1829</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you’re stuck in a rut?  Is doing the same, old same-old really good enough?  The answer can be found in entertainment, at least if you’re willing to go along with the flow and accept something very different.  In a world that seems like it’s full of very similar knock-off movies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1829&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Fighting</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/keep-fighting/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/keep-fighting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The world of political blogs is a world where people often zing each other and make small rhetorical points for the simple reason that this is how the game is played.  If you read Barataria often, you’ll know that I have little time for this.  I was called to task by a friend in e-mail [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1827&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Late Night Politics</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/late-night-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/23/late-night-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1824</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[President Obama’s appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman was a brilliant performance for many reasons.  The most obvious was the simple and direct way he related his goals and how he hoped to achieve them, casually bringing the whole country into his inner circle.  Less obvious was how he closed the loop, connecting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1824&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Excellent</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/excellent/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/21/excellent/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been fashionable for the last 10 years to write endlessly about the wonders that computers and the internet have brought to our lives.  The Federal Reserve has even taken to fudging productivity numbers based on what they call the “hedonic adjustment” – the supposed increases in productivity that this very special piece of equipment [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1822&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Learned Helplessness</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/learned-helplessness/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/learned-helplessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:27:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“What can you do?”  Often said under a deep sigh, it’s something I’ve heard even more often than “What happened?” recently.  People venting their anger have become a staple on the evening nooze, but resigned apathy remains a much more common emotion in response to the Depression.  It’s the economic Depression made into a personal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1818&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Football</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/football/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/football/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Football is the most intellectual of all the major sports in the USofA.  Go ahead, laugh, but it’s true.  All those breaks between plays are more than time for wagging commentary and the occasional Bud commercial, they are a chance for the coach to send in a play that one side will attempt to execute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1816&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Maintenance</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/maintenance/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/14/maintenance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The brush moves back and forth as if under its own power after a while.  Painting is a kind of hypnotic therapy driven by nothing more stimulating the porch rail becoming a little bit brighter.  The Canadian Pacific grey soot slowly becomes white and shiny, new and clean.  Years of weather are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1814&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Digital Paperboy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/digital-paperboy/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/digital-paperboy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 02:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1799</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How much would you pay to read your favorite newspaper online?  If the answer is nothing, because that’s what you’re paying now, you’re not alone.  But 170 dailies are agonizing over how to make you pay for their craft in a semi-public way that we are just beginning to learn about.  The company that wants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1799&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>At Yer Feet</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/at-yer-feet/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/at-yer-feet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Money]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1796</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When people talk about the economy, whether on talk shows or in bars or just standing at the bus stop, the conversation eventually goes the same way.  Everyone has a theory about who is to blame, where the money went, or at least how this might play out in the distorted politics of our time.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1796&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Jim Crowing</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/jim-crowing/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/jim-crowing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When the going gets strange, the strange get going. Politics always has its share of irrational arguments, but a barrage of the bizarre often establishes a pattern.  If you’ve seen it before, experience kicks in to tell you that it’s a much bigger argument than you might have otherwise thought.  At some point you just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1794&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Labor Day</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/labor-day/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/labor-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 01:33:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1792</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Monday is what we call a “holiday”, the word rooted in “Holy Day” or, at the very least, a day of celebration.  It’s one of the lost days of our calendar in the sense that very few people seem to understand that Labor Day was a day meant to celebrate the simple fact that everything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1792&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unheeded</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/unheeded/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/unheeded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:01:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1787</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps it’s just the waning warmth of summer closing around me like a blanket on a fall day, but I’ve had a feeling lately.  Events have conspired to make me think about the long term perspective on what is going on in our world, the bigger picture that I like to think is what I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1787&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Jefferson versus Hamilton</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jefferson-versus-hamilton/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/jefferson-versus-hamilton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I use Barataria to throw out a few ideas and new perspectives that I’m not entirely sure of myself.  I hope you see this as a way of thinking out loud.  Difficult social topics are rarely settled in one person’s mind, no matter how much they are mulled over.  I want to take the time [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1785&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Awfully Artificial</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/28/awfully-artificial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:07:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1783</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Words mean things, or so the saying goes.  Unfortunately, things change so words have to change.  That’s where it gets interesting.
English is an adaptable language that mutates easily.  The problem is that language is useful for both communication and identity, so people sometimes deliberately use a word in a different way to show what group [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1783&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Sixteen Tons</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/sixteen-tons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have proposed that understanding the connections that make up a system give us a greater insight into how that system will respond to the stresses of change than any kind of institutional or academic perspective.  My readers have responded by demanding specific examples, so I thought I’d start with the big one:  Health Care.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1780&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Platform</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/platform/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/24/platform/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1774</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What are we gonna do?  If you read those of us who kvetch constantly about not just what’s wrong but exactly what’s wrong you probably get a kind of fatigue after a while.  That’s understandable.  I strongly believe that if you are in the business of pointing out the bad stuff you have an obligation [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1774&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baratariana</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/baratariana/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/baratariana/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1770</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the two years I’ve been writing Barataria, I’ve taken one sick day and one vacation day off from a MWF schedule.  I’m proud of that record, but with my parents in town and a potential new business opportunity starting to fill my thoughts there wasn’t much room left for a piece today.  So I’ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1770&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Matter of Priority</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/a-matter-of-priority/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/a-matter-of-priority/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re trying to keep track of the money spent by our Federal Government for “stimulus”, you must know that it’s not easy.  CNN has a guide that I’ve found handy that tells me the Government has committed to $1.9 Trillion (With a capital T) and the Federal Reserve about $6.4 Trillion.  It adds up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1766&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systemic Connections: Conclusion</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/systemic-connections-conclusion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:01:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[People & Culture]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We live in a time that seems to rarely be bounded by what we know.  All around us are what appears to be an unlimited number of new scientific facts and imaginative ideas.  Yet with all of the great products of our minds, we live in uncertain times.  Great theories about economic systems have collapsed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1762&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systemic Connections: Politics</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/14/systemic-connections-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1759</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Governments of various kinds and levels are the way people organize and define themselves, and their operating systems are politics.  Connections have always been at the heart of politics for obvious reasons. In our modern democracies, journalists have tried valiantly to define elections based on issues and ideas, but it never works – the connections [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1759&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systemic Connections: Economy</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/systemic-connections-economy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 01:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1753</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The art and skill needed to put knowledge to practical use is more than just what technology is really about – it’s generally seen an increasing share of our economy.    The term “Knowledge Economy” comes from Peter Drucker in his 1966 book, “The Age of Discontinuity”.  It includes this:
“In a knowledge economy where skill is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1753&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systemic Connections: Technology</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/10/systemic-connections-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 03:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Science and technology are two things that are often confused.  This comes naturally because advancement in knowledge seems to lead directly to advances in the way we live and the stuff we have in our lives.  New things require new origins, or so it seems.  There is no difference biologically between us and the people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1750&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systemic Connections</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/systemic-connections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a summary of the main theme of Barataria so far, written for the purpose of taking the discussion off to a new level.  If you need more explanation, just follow the links.  Thanks!
Pick a system that influences your life.  You might start with the obvious physical networks of technology like the internet, telephones [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1741&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Unread Influence</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/unread-influence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:01:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Minnesota politics crossed a threshold when Michael Brodkorb was elected Vice Chair of the state Republican Party.  His name was well known to many people as a blogger for Minnesota Democrats Exposed (MDE), a site that has a name that pretty much speaks to its content.  To many, this signals an endorsement of blogging as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1734&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Scaminars</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/scaminars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve all seen the pitches in our inbox. They careen from the aggressive “Make Money Fast!” to the more subtle “The Financial Freedom You Deserve.”  Most people ignore this mail and go on with their lives – but the invitations keep coming all the same.  Is there something to this?  I decided to spend some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1731&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beer</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/beer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:25:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1728</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The problem started soon after people started messing around with barley and other grains.  Sure, they were an interesting crop that you could make a lot of with this “plow” thingy, but what could you do with it? You can imagine the debate running on and on, with the Sumerians that were pro-grain being called [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1728&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Craftsmanship</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/29/craftsmanship/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 01:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Woodworking is a strategic craft.  It often starts with a plan, but it may start with a irresistible chunk of raw wood that seems destined to be an expression of beauty.  In either case, the goals are formulated, the steps outlined and the tools sharpened.  Perfecting the craft itself isn’t much different.  The woodworking his [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1726&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Heart of It</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/the-heart-of-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 05:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1724</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The facts start out simple enough.  A black guy in Cambridge came home from a trip and had to force his way into his own house.  A neighbor heard the noise and called the cops.  One thing led to another, and the cops wound up taking in the man who broke into his own house.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1724&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Handles</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/handles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s one of those things that happens on The Daily Show.  A perfectly normal roasting of a “Good Morning America” segment on Michael Jackson hysteria was being pulled off by … well, by merely playing the self-parodying thing.  Just when it didn’t seem like it could get any stranger, a man was introduced as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1713&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Powers</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/economic-powers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 00:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1707</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the many huge bills pending before Congress right now is the financial system overhaul.  This is a big complicated mess of a proposal that a lot of people are very skeptical about, and for a good reason – it’s very hard to understand.  I’ve been slow to write about it because I was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1707&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stated Reasoning</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/stated-reasoning/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/stated-reasoning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>wabbitoid</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://erikhare.wordpress.com/?p=1704</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[State governments have been getting a lot more scrutiny lately for one reason:  they’re not doing too well.  California has become the best known example, but Ohio, New York, and Illinois lead the list of big state governments that suddenly went from obscure to major crises.  The problem with that statement is at both ends [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1704&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Channel 6</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/channel-6/</link>
		<comments>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/channel-6/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps late at night everything seems a little funnier.  Or maybe it’s a good time to think things through as if ideas are sheep waiting to be counted.  Maybe I started to really like the host, Big Wilson, and his little riffs on a cheesy electric piano.  Whatever the reason, I spent a lot of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1703&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jobs</title>
		<link>http://erikhare.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I’ve been looking for full-time work for about a year now.  The life of a consultant has been pretty good to me, but I need a lot more stability and less stress.  While I have to keep looking for gigs as a grant writer, social media consultant, and web content [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=erikhare.wordpress.com&blog=4555546&post=1701&subd=erikhare&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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