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		<title>Blogbook: the hard copy weblog</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/blogbook-the-hard-copy-weblog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:58:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we watch the coming of the end of books and the disappearance of newspapers, we note an increase in electronic self-publishing, blogs the obvious pedestrian example, but then, in an interesting twist, we see blogs subsequently published in more traditional print copy format. Two recent and noteworthy examples illustrate: Caleb Crain’s The Wreck of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1110&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kierkegaard: A Good Self is Hard to Find</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/kierkegaard-and-a-good-self-is-hard-to-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We enjoyed Gordon Marino’s recent piece in the Times, “Kierkegaard on the Couch,” about a distinction between despair and depression, the former, according to Marino, a kind of disrespect for one’s self, not accepting who one is, the latter a disease; the former our existential condition (for which Kafka said there is no cure), the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1099&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Free Parking at the Library of Congress</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/free-parking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We try to imagine a world without cars. Given our experience, it’s difficult: our MOS was wheeled and track vehicle mechanic; we parked cars at the old LA International while working our way through college; we underwrote autos for a time. Our first car was a 1956 Chevy, purchased for $75 from our friend Gary [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1093&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Retiring and Re-tiering Posner</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/the-retiring-and-re-tiering-posner/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The claim Posner seems to be making (a claim of value) is that federal taxes should not be used to support economically non-productive groups – the retired elderly is his example. If we accept his claim of value as something we should all want, then we should include all non-productive groups, which would include the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1084&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>AIG, APA and the Crashing of Institutions</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/aig-apa-and-the-crashing-of-institutions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The frequency and severity of institutional crashes lately keep ringing in our ears. What becomes of credibility and reliability when the actuarial body politic, responsible for making the rules, tracking the results, and revising accordingly, errors in judgment, planning, execution, and follow-up? First AIG, now APA. 
A few weeks ago, we dripped a bit of our mild [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1074&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On the water writing</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/on-the-water-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s nothing better than being on the water. Another blog we&#8217;ve been following recently, Transparent Sea, is chronicling an open ocean paddle following the migration path of whales off the coast of Australia, and features some close-in photos and videos of whales, dolphins, and surfers.
We are reminded of Joshua Slocum&#8217;s classic, Sailing Alone Around the World. Slocum could [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1061&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Meeting with the whale</media:title>
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		<title>Hemingway surfing and writing</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/10/28/hemingway-surfing-and-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve been enjoying the El Porto Fridays blog. We can still feel the El Porto sand beneath our feet, the foam rushing over our board, the morning glass, the afternoon chop, the evening glass-off. We surfed there in the 60’s and 70’s, before heading out, like Huck Finns, for the territory, ahead of all the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1057&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Double Shot, Hold the Book</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/double-shot-hold-the-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The end of books is closer than we thought. A short article in today&#8217;s Christian Science Monitor discusses a private high school that has replaced the books in its library with a $12,000 espresso machine, three sports bar like TVs, Kindles with e-books, and laptops.
Apparently, the old, hard copy books were not being checked out and read, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1052&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Outbreak of Grammar Influenza</title>
		<link>http://joelinker.wordpress.com/2009/10/24/new-outbreak-of-grammar-influenza/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 16:49:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Linker</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We’ve only just noticed someone else coming to the aid of the mistreated E. B. White – Jennifer Balderama, in a Times review of Mark Garvey’s Stylized. We find Simon &#38; Shuster’s description of Elements and its influence hyperbolic, but they’re trying to sell a book, not grammar, while it does sound like Garvey misses [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=joelinker.wordpress.com&blog=2371298&post=1044&subd=joelinker&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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