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	<title>No Puffin Perspective™</title>
	<link>http://blog.dickharper.com</link>
	<description>Most excellent shines and whines</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:37:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Some Assembly Required</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/21/assembly/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/21/assembly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[My bank insisted the other day that I get new checks. They had changed their routing numbers in 1997 or so and really wanted me to spend my money with something that didn't screw up their machinery.]]></description>
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		<title>60-Cubed &#8230; Cap Cancer!</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/19/cap-cancer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/19/cap-cancer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[About Me]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/19/cap-cancer/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This year-long project will raise 60 pledges of $60 and 60 partners to shave 60 heads on my 60th birthday.]]></description>
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		<title>Not Writing</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/14/writing/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/14/writing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/14/writing/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I write but I rarely write about writing. I think about writing. I sometimes talk with friends about writing. I have written once or twice about writing. I don't do it very often. If you just thought, Uh Oh, you may be right. ]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School?</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/07/school-sale/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/07/school-sale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/07/school-sale/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Big Mistake. Really big mistake. Today, as I write this, is July 7. I realize it may not be July 7 where you are or when you read this, but I can live with that. Here and now it is definitely the Monday after our long weekend long birthday celebration for America and the Back to School sales have already started.]]></description>
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		<title>America needs trucks</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/03/trucks/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/03/trucks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/07/09/trucks/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm not a carpenter, but I do haul sheets of plywood. I'm not a garbologist, but I do haul trash to the dump. I'm not a yardman, but I do tow my broken down tractor around. I need a truck.]]></description>
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		<title>Ain&#8217;t Got No Culture</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/30/libraries/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/30/libraries/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/30/libraries/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Monroe County (Florida) Board of Commissioners might close the Marathon, Big Pine, and Islamorada branches of the Monroe County Public Library permanently. This closure would come on the heels of a significant decrease in library hours. ]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Plug In, Whatever You Do!</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/26/plug-in/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/26/plug-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/26/plug-in/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Electric utilities in Vermont are worried that the high cost of heating oil will force consumers to use electric space heaters.]]></description>
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		<title>Hoofbeats</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/23/hoofbeats/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/23/hoofbeats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Society]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/23/hoofbeats/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The End is nigh. The hoofbeats of the Four Horsemen have sounded. I am about to agree with Gary Trudeau.]]></description>
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		<title>My How We Have Changed</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/16/change/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/16/change/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/16/change/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pretty much anything will get me to thinking. A pair of white sox. Cornflakes. A boat wake which is not to be confused with a wake for a boat.

I got to thinking about the media my grandfather grew up with. Now I need to learn Flash.]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Energy a Tough Sell</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/09/solar/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/09/solar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/09/solar/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Miami Herald thinks solar power is a white elephant.]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a Facial</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/02/facial/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/02/facial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/02/facial/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Billboards seem unlikely data gatherers, eh? ]]></description>
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		<title>Wimps</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/01/wimps/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/01/wimps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/06/01/wimps/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The DNC caved.]]></description>
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		<title>Guestbook and More</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/31/guestbook/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/31/guestbook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 05:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/31/guestbook/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you sign my classmates.com guestbook, I have to pay for it. I hate to be nickled and dimed.]]></description>
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		<title>Memorial Day</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/26/memorial-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/26/memorial-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/26/memorial-day/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If I had but one wish granted on this day, I wish not another soldier dies. Ever. ]]></description>
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		<title>Leftist George McGovern Is Right</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/19/leftist-george-mcgovern-is-right/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/19/leftist-george-mcgovern-is-right/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 05:20:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/19/leftist-george-mcgovern-is-right/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[George McGovern (yes that George McGovern) wrote in the NYTimes, "The competition for the Democratic presidential nomination ... has made millions of voters excited about selecting our next president."

He is right in a way that worries me greatly.]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Four</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/13/the-power-of-four/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/13/the-power-of-four/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 17:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I bought a gallon of milk, a gallon of gas, and a loaf of bread today.
Four Dollar.
Four Dollar.
Four Dollar.
It&#8217;s gonna to be a long summer.
]]></description>
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		<title>Keys Disease</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/12/keys-disease/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/12/keys-disease/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 17:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/12/keys-disease/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I like the Keys. I like living in the Keys. I like writing in the Keys. I like people watching in the Keys. I like sitting on the beach in the Keys. I like the Keys.]]></description>
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		<title>First They Steal&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/09/first-they-steal/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/09/first-they-steal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 23:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Burma's military junta shows how to kill your own people without firing a shot...]]></description>
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		<title>R-E-S-P-E-C-T</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/08/r-e-s-p-e-c-t/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/08/r-e-s-p-e-c-t/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 17:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Florida Democrats insist that Howard Dean seat the Florida delegates at the upcoming Democratic convention.]]></description>
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		<title>Vamping Us</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/05/vamping-us/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/05/vamping-us/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/05/05/vamping-us/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Vampire Power. According to the Energy Department, vampire gadgets account for about 25 percent of total residential electricity consumption in the U.S.

Say what?]]></description>
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		<title>Socialized Medicine in a Genuinely Socialized Country</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/28/socialized-medicine-in-a-genuinely-socialized-country/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/28/socialized-medicine-in-a-genuinely-socialized-country/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/28/socialized-medicine-in-a-genuinely-socialized-country/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Li Rifu and Chen Yanfe live in Shuang Miao, China. Last year, Mr. Li and his wife were each diagnosed with cancer.

Payments from the local health insurance fund are capped. Mr. Li has had to sell his prized new (Chinese) car, and has gone into debt to pay for their care.]]></description>
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		<title>Porn Shortage: The Ethanol Scam</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/21/porn-shortage-the-ethanol-scam/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/21/porn-shortage-the-ethanol-scam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2008 05:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A local radio talk show reflected on that shortage recently. Turns out they really said "shortage of corn" and were talking about how dumb it is to make biofuels out of the food on our table.

It's worse than that. ]]></description>
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		<title>Goose Egg</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/18/goose-egg/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/18/goose-egg/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/18/goose-egg/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[NAPA and Sears have have about the most user unfriendly websites...]]></description>
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		<title>Funny Ought Not Be Bad Business</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/14/what-is-the-most-important-part-of-the-sunday-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/14/what-is-the-most-important-part-of-the-sunday-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the most important part of the Sunday paper?]]></description>
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		<title>Fact Checking</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/07/fact-checking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An email trumpeting that &#8220;Casa D&#8217;Ice is back!&#8221; has made the rounds again.
For anyone not in the know, Casa D&#8217;Ice is a restaurant in North Versailles, Pennsylvania, some 10 miles from Pittsburgh. The restaurant has a lighted message board sign out front, the kind that typically heralds the daily special or the Sunday sermon with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dancing Moves Off the Streets</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/01/dancing-moves-off-the-streets/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/04/01/dancing-moves-off-the-streets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Heritage Dance Center of Vermont’s new home will open on the Highgate Road today with free performances and a black tie evening reception to meet the artists.
Construction of the Center began as a fast track &#8220;design-build&#8221; project just 8 months ago.
Read more in the April Columns &#8230;
  [The entire list of April Columns [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Press 1 for Spanglish</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/31/press-1-for-spanglish/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/31/press-1-for-spanglish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I would gladly pay $3 to some illegals to wash my truck. ]]></description>
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		<title>XM Merger With Sirius Approved</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/25/xm-merger-with-sirius-approved/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/25/xm-merger-with-sirius-approved/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Justice Department Approves XM Merger With Sirius? Hello?]]></description>
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		<title>Turning Tricks</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/24/turning-tricks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2008 05:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend is heavily into astrophotography. He told me he had just found a digital camera to lust after for his night shots. It apparently has intervalography functionality, a bruckjurnometer, and I think, the much desired high hepjabossity index.

I wondered if he has enough tricks to turn pro.

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		<title>It&#8217;s the Economy, Stupid</title>
		<link>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/17/its-the-economy-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.dickharper.com/2008/03/17/its-the-economy-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dick</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The accent may be on the wrong syl LA ble.
A friend mentioned that he had heard that a very large bank was talking to the Fed about liquidity problems. He was nervous that we might be on the brink of something way uglier than most are thinking.
He had probably heard the first rumblings about the [...]]]></description>
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