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		<title>The Call On The Field Has Been Reversed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the National Football League, when there is a replay challenge to a call made by the officials, the head guy in the zebra striped shirt makes his way to the little &#8220;instant photos while you wait&#8221; looking booth on the side of the field to watch the replays for a period of time (sometimes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pink Ribbon Backlash</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 02:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past 72 hours, the “absolutely not politically motivated” decision by the Susan G. Komen foundation to withdraw $680,000 in “future” grant money from Planned Parenthood has become a firestorm that literally threatens to eviscerate all the good work of over two decades of fundraising by the Komen Foundation to find a cure for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Courage of Their Convictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I try to keep my political views here to a minimum. Not because I don’t have any, but rather because they usually would get in the way of trying to be impartial and fair in my day job. I seriously believe that everyone is entitled to an opinion, and I would defend that right with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Original Still Rules</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 04:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each year for the Super Bowl, advertisers roll out some pretty amazing commercials. And some pretty lame ones. Somewhere between those two extremes, I can’t figure out how I feel about the new commercial Honda has done for its CR-V, featuring Matthew Broderick. The spot is a homage to Broderick’s movie anti-hero, Ferris Bueller. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fidelio Fatale Flaw</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was asked today why I haven’t written anything lately about technology. Truth is, I haven’t found that much lately to get excited enough to write about. Don’t get the wrong idea, I’m still loving things like the iPhone 4S whose Siri voice recognition technology was a hilarious plot line in last Thursday night’s “Big [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real Celebration of The Voice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:32:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the biggest decisions that the television network with each year’s Super Bowl game has to make is “What program do we want to showcase right after the game, which will probably have the largest viewing audience of any show this year?” Obviously this is a “golden opportunity” to launch a new show, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Back Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have ever thought that someone was claiming to have a bad back, and might have been&#8211;you know, exaggerating a bit, the chances are about 1000% that you have never had any pain in your back. Because once you have, you never, ever think of anyone as exaggerating that pain, ever again. I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The State of the Union Rewrite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s be honest, the President of these United States didn’t ask for my help in writing his State of the Union speech, delivered earlier tonight. But if he did, here is what I would have told him to say: “Good Evening my fellow Americans and those of you in this chamber who have been elected [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Thing Jon Bon Jovi Was Wrong About</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 18:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don’t get the wrong idea here, I’m a fan of Jon Bon Jovi and his music. But I’m pretty sure he was wrong in that song “Who says you can’t go home?” Because after a quick trip back to where I used to live&#8211;and did for the majority of the past 28 years in three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Terminal</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 02:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kirkv</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent seven hours in the pleasant confines of Dulles International Airport today, thanks to a January storm across parts of the country and its’ disruption to the finely tuned network of arrivals and departures run by United Airlines Express. There were times during the seven hours that I thought I was becoming the character [...]]]></description>
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