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	<description>Speculation and perspective on current events related to politics, society, technology and religion.</description>
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		<title>Home Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m home again (mid-tour leave)&#8230;visiting my wife, Cindy, (step)daughter, Jessica, and granddaughter, Kameran, in Alabama.  I flew in on Tuesday and they were all there to meet me in the airport.  Jess took off from school that afternoon, and what a pleasant surprise (she&#8217;s a single mom and just incredible&#8230;a very courageous woman, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaves</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Photographs]]></category>

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		<title>Sunday Evening</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This evening I watched &#8220;The War Lover,&#8221; starring Steve McQueen, Robert Wagner and Shirley Anne Field.  A movie, based on the novel by John Hersey, tells the tale of Buzz Rickson (Steve McQueen), a WWII B-17 pilot who lives for the action associated with the war.  The character is typical Steve McQueen&#8211;loner, rebellious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trade Tower, Seoul, Korea</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Korea]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Photographs]]></category>

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		<title>Edge and Center Nations</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the Afterward to the novel, &#8220;Children of the Mind,&#8221; Orson Scott Card explores the concept of Edge Nations and Center Nations.  This concept provides insight into the mechanics of change.  In understanding the relationship between edge and center nations (or peoples), one can study and predict, and embrace or combat change.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Are Two Sides To Every Poe</title>
		<link>http://shyspeak.net/2006/06/03/there-are-two-sides-to-every-poe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jun 2006 13:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JOS</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Edgar Allen Poe is arguably the best read author of nineteenth century America.  His tales of horror and the macabre often border on the perverse and certainly illustrate the dark side of man.  One of his recurring themes is found in the duality of his characters.  He used characters&#8217; dual nature to [...]]]></description>
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