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		<title>New Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a year or so of increasingly being unable to see . . . well, anything, I finally broke down and bought myself some new glasses.  Because of the amazing options available to consumers here in the future, I was able to indulge in a luxury that would have been unthinkable to me not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Thanksgiving</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago, I had to make a brief stop at a client&#8217;s office on the weekend.  Nathaniel and I were going to go on adventures that day, so I brought him along.  He likes going to the office he calls &#8216;the snacky place.&#8217;  I took care of what work I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First They Came for the Smokers&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2009/08/26/first-they-came-for-the-smokers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:29:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selling other people&#8217;s stuff is a very profitable business.  Ask any burglar.  It works just as well when the &#8217;stuff&#8217; is intangible.  Ask any government.
It has become common practice to persuade people to vote for restrictions on activities that they do not participate in.  Don&#8217;t ride motorcycles?  Then you probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Auto Non-Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just sent this to President Obama (or rather, of course, whichever staffer gets to read these things):
Regarding the auto-industry bail out.
As a long-time General Motors stockholder, I would like to say PLEASE STOP.  General Motors are Chrysler are bankrupt.  Chrysler will never be a viable business on its own.  General Motors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>History Pop Quiz</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2009/02/23/history-pop-quiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extraordinary optimism sustained an orgy of speculation.  Books were written to prove that economic crisis was a phase which expanding business organisation and science had at last mastered.  [....] In October a sudden and violent tempest swept over Wall Street.  The intervention of the most powerful agencies failed to stem the tide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why History Matters</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2009/02/06/why-history-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend mentioned that she wasn&#8217;t very good at history, and I&#8217;m afraid my reply ran a little long.  It&#8217;s a subject that has fascinated me almost since I first began to read, oh so many years ago.  (Clay tablets back then.  This fancy &#8216;paper&#8217; stuff hadn&#8217;t been invented yet.  It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wait, What?</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2008/12/30/wait-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:43:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Quick Tips]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything in moderation, including moderation.
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		<title>After The Counting</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2008/11/12/after-the-counting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a lot of fuss about the recent election here in The United States.  The Democrats, of course, are smug.  The Republicans, well, some (not all, but some) are in a positive frenzy of angst, predicting the end of freedom and the coming Socialist Apocalypse.
I pretty much don&#8217;t give a damn. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Pillars of Civilization Shaken</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2008/10/06/the-pillars-of-civilization-shaken/</link>
		<comments>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2008/10/06/the-pillars-of-civilization-shaken/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A terrible crisis has been averted, at least for now.
You&#8217;ve probably heard about this so-called &#8216;Credit-Crunch&#8217; that the United States is going through, but I will summarize very briefly.  In the simplest terms, financial institutions and consumers in the US lent and borrowed so poorly, so stupidly, that the the system was in danger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For The Children</title>
		<link>http://www.grumpypundit.com/index.php/2008/05/05/for-the-children/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 18:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert M. Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was knocking around the web last week, hitting the usual variety of sites that I read to keep up on what is going on in the world and came across a link to a WSJ essay by Peggy Noonan.  It was a good essay, about how America&#8217;s political leaders are out of touch [...]]]></description>
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