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	<title>It Seems To Me</title>
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	<description>Musings on technology, business, politics, and life</description>
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		<title>Books Are Back, Baby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up, there were very few books in our house. I read the monthly Reader’s Digest from cover to cover but that was about it. (I think I can still recite a half-dozen “Humor in Uniform” anecdotes.) My parent just weren’t the reading kind.
Then, somewhere after college, I got the reading bug. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2010/01/04/reading-is-back/</link>
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		<title>We Pay For What&#8217;s Important</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, in his NY Times editorial, Nicholas Kristof cited an article by the American Journal of Public Health stating that 45,000 uninsured people die annually as a consequence of not having insurance.
We accept that life is unfair, that some people will live in cramped apartments and others in sprawling mansions. But our existing insurance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/10/09/we-pay-for-whats-important/</link>
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		<title>Silence is Golden</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.
— Unknown
For the last few weeks I have been intensely focused on the launch of the web site for Rizers, my new company. I haven&#8217;t had much to add to the daily quote file. Stay tuned for the official Rizers&#8217; announcement.
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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/06/12/silence-is-golden/</link>
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		<title>Bailouts and Begging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is only the poor who are forbidden to beg.
— Anatole France


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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/30/bailouts-and-begging/</link>
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		<title>Klipstein&#8217;s Third Law of General Engineering</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
— Applied Murphology


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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/29/klipsteins-third-law-of-general-engineering/</link>
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		<title>Running the Country III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.
— H. L. Menken


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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/28/running-the-country-iii/</link>
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		<title>Running the Country II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If I wished to put a curse on a nation, I would invoke the gods to decree that it be governed by those who consider themselves to be the only true patriots in it.
— Sydney J. Harris


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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/27/running-the-country-ii/</link>
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		<title>Running the Country</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
— George Burns


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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/26/running-the-country/</link>
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		<title>Discovery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doubt is the father of discovery.
— Galileo

Galileo paid a heavy price for his doubt. It is inspiring to know that he held to its efficacy.

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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/25/discovery/</link>
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		<title>Learning Life&#8217;s Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.
— Søren Kierkegaard


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		<link>http://itseemstome.com/ISTM/2009/05/24/learning-lifes-lessons/</link>
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