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	<title>From the far south side of Chicago</title>
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	<description>Yo soy yo y mi circunstancia</description>
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		<title>Update to Leviathan 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 18:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a poem Leviathan 2007. Some of the ideas may have seemed exaggerated to some readers. If you are one of them, you might want to reread it and then look at this. Thanks to my niece Genevieve for bringing this to my attention.
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		<title>On hysteria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 20:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a withering contempt for people who panic in a crisis, spread rumors, and make things worse. It is one reason I don&#8217;t watch TV news, since that is their primary technique. I understand that at a personal level some element of panic is involuntary when it hits, but it still strikes me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=817&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faux Pas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 17:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In 1989 I was working with a small computer company with offices in a squat, Steelcase-grey building located in the plebian 12th arrondisement of Paris. There was no sense of the style and flair we associate with France. The employees were mostly young computer nerds which was a culture I knew so I felt at [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=805&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Gilbert</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Gilbert is the best-selling author of Eat, Pray, Love. She gave a talk at TED that I just saw yesterday. She has wonderful stage presence and high intelligence which made for an arresting presentation. 
She examined creativity and stress. Why do we have so many artists who succumb as drunks, suicides, mental cases? What [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=792&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Newspapers, sic transit gloria</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/04/07/newspapers-sic-transit-gloria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:20:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That newpapers are in trouble is not news. However understanding how they managed to slide into bankruptcy is a little more complicated. Jeff Jarvis has an excellent summary. 
The Newspaper Association of America is meeting in San Diego this week and they’re preaching up at their own choir loft with angry, self-righteous fire and brimstone [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=789&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Forty-eight</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/31/forty-eight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Eight is double four
Lower US seen from Alaska
Winner of WWII
California Gold Rush
Triple Sweet Sixteen
How old Becky would have been today
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		<title>From my journal on a restless night</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/from-my-journal-on-a-restless-night/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 3:14 AM I am thankful for 
•	My dog Veronica
•	My friend John
•	My friends Son &#38; Belle
•	My health
•	My house
•	My Weber natural gas grill
•	My car
•	My books
•	My mind
•	Quicken
•	Netflix
•	Amazon.com
•	Apple
•	Bubbies pickles
•	Yogurt
•	Challah
•	Baguettes
•	Cheese
•	Ice water
•	Gunpowder tea
•	Sweetmarias.com
•	Palm Centro
•	Sudoku
•	Levenger.com
•	Pelikan pens
•	Eagle Creek bags
•	Randy Travis
•	John Stewart
•	Bill Maher
•	George Carlin
•	David Letterman
•	Dr. Gates
•	Katrina my stylist
•	Amy Harrod of Four Paws
•	Cindy my trainer
•	Barack Obama
•	Bonne Maman preserves
•	Colombo Salami
•	Dole [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=780&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daydreaming at nine</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/daydreaming-at-nine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like to daydream. On the way home from school I walk under the tree branches. On a sunny day like today the light shimmers between the leaves. They divide the sunshine into individual beams. I squint and the some of the beams resolve themselves into taut wires. I look at the pattern they make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=773&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A beautiful mind begs to differ</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/a-beautiful-mind-begs-to-differ/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Freeman Dyson is an eccentric scientist. He&#8217;s English, tweedy, and iconoclastic. He&#8217;s also one of the greatest geniuses born in the 20th Century. For most of his life he&#8217;s been on the side of &#8220;liberal&#8221; causes, working towards nuclear disarmament and opposing projects like &#8220;Star Wars&#8221; missile defense. His concern for humanity and his ethical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=769&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Always an embarrasment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 09:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[financial crisis]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was living in France in 1991. The US Senate, in televised sessions, was discussing the porn star Long Dong Silver as part of their august deliberations on whether to advise and consent to the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court. This puzzled my French friends and they asked me to explain it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=756&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Lai, nostra culpa</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/my-lai/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The massacre at My Lai happened 41 years ago today. The best online source of information about it is here from the BBC. If you don&#8217;t know what it was about you really should learn.
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		<title>Delirio</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/delirio/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 03:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book review
Delirio by Laura Restrepo (original Spanish)
Delirium by Laura Restrepo (English translation)
Augustina goes crazy over a weekend while her husband is away with his kids from a previous marriage. Why? The husband tries to find out. The story takes place in Bogota when Pablo Escobar was at his zenith and it looked like Columbia might [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=736&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mr. Kelly</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/11/mr-kelley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:31:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[chicago]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[patriotism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Walter J. Kelly
World History teacher
November 1963
An Irishman from
Central Casting, he taught us
all about the Church
“Look at it this way”
he said to the Jewish kids
who bristled as one
“Know your enemy”
The laughter relaxed both Jew
and Gentile
Then that meant everyone
Some days he even made fun of
the Principal
Our hero
he taught us about Mozart
and the butcher’s bill
that is History.
We were [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=728&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>For Basho, wherever you are</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/09/for-basho-wherever-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gill</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[poetry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Old pond no frog sound
Dow Jones dives deep; Obama
Daylight Saving Time
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		<title>Change the rules, win the game</title>
		<link>http://ortegaygasset.wordpress.com/2009/03/08/change-the-rules-win-the-game/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 04:51:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review
The Impossible Advantage: Winning the Competitive Game by Changing the Rules 
by
Wolfram Wördemann, Andreas Buchholz, Ned Wiley
I don&#8217;t usually like business books, especially since I&#8217;ve retired from corporate life. But this one is pretty good.
It offers a practical method to generate fresh thinking to break free from the conventional wisdom and see a business [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=722&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Frank Rich&#8217;s column in today&#8217;s NYT
The level of taste flaunted by America’s upper caste at the bubble’s height had less in common with the Medicis than, say, Uday and Qusay Hussein.
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		<title>3/6/36</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An entry from my journal March 6, 2008.
172nd anniversary of the battle of the Alamo. Not very popular to reflect on that today, even here in Texas. But I do. Fess Parker when I was growing up is part of why. I had a coonskin cap. The romance of a doomed last stand. The fact [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=633&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>At 59, listening to my 16-year old self</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up is
choosing what to want
proving Schopenhauer wrong
Trading youth, beauty, agility of mind
for irresistible fingernails
and immovable bowels
Murder your dreams
for the retirement
of your dreams
Specializing
ever smaller parts of life
for the whole
Routine boring
pointless inevitable
slow slide into death
Life only seeks to be,
squirming on that hook
religious fantasies etherize
Hate yourself your life
rage
a rotten deal
Vile motives boil
rationality scabrous
swelling sac of pus sews [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=647&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Birthdays</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:29:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the birthday of the English actor David Niven and the Israeli statesman Yitzhak Rabin. I have tried to come up with a clever connection to use as a lead-in to some statement of cosmic meaning. There is none. 
Prove me wrong.
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		<title>In Russian, Winograd means &#8220;grapes&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:58:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(I found my first blog post which was on a different server using different software that I abandoned. It was first written and posted April 8, 2007, six months before the financial panic. Reproduced below)

I’ve decided to retire and to try to live on my investments. One of the activities I want to pursue now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ortegaygasset.wordpress.com&blog=4152638&post=681&subd=ortegaygasset&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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