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		<title>Train</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2011/06/14/train/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a song for the labradors
Off the coast
Who swim with their wet necks
And paddle like the sun is going down real soon
This is for the wet dogs who lick their paws and don&#8217;t know all that is wrong with the world
The sea is calm tonight
Waves beating helplessly along the shore
The trains run quiet on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valley of the Afrikaners: Orania and the Making of a Post-Apartheid White Identity</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2011/05/25/valley-of-the-afrikaners-orania-and-the-making-of-a-post-apartheid-white-identity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 00:48:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Apartheid]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Note:  This was originally published in the Hypocrite Reader in May 2011.
In a subtle valley among the rolling green hills of the South African veld, there is a rural village enclave known as Orania.  Established on private land by a small group of South African citizens, the village is a bastion of memory for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Richard Wagner and the Condemnation of Art</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2011/04/16/richard-wagner-and-the-condemnation-of-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Apr 2011 19:15:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading recently about a peculiar custom in Israel of not performing Richard Wagner.  Although the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that enforcement of this custom isn&#8217;t legal, it still continues to be an ongoing, rampant phenomenon in a country that has an established tradition of free speech.  In recent years, Israeli musicians [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liberte, Egalite in France?</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2011/04/11/liberte-egalite-in-france/</link>
		<comments>http://brianmayer.com/2011/04/11/liberte-egalite-in-france/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Burqa]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s happening in France today as it has happened across Europe.  The steady declination of individual liberty and the overstepping authority of the state.  It is not just an isolated incident anymore, but a pattern of invasion.
The latest outrage is a new ban in France which went into effect today.  Anyone caught wearing a full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giffords Shooting Tragic, but also A Reminder of What Makes America Great</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2011/01/09/giffords-shooting-tragic-but-also-a-reminder-of-what-makes-america-great/</link>
		<comments>http://brianmayer.com/2011/01/09/giffords-shooting-tragic-but-also-a-reminder-of-what-makes-america-great/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jan 2011 18:22:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brianmayer.com/?p=239</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ll never hear anyone happy about yesterday&#8217;s shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), who was the victim of a targeted attack that has claimed the lives of 6 people so far, including a federal judge.  But the response to the tragedy has been overwhelming, and a reminder to Americans that our bitter partisanship, no matter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Economics of Pride</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2010/09/01/the-economics-of-pride/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 08:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://brianmayer.com/?p=236</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I had an interesting conversation today.  I was waiting for a friend to meet me in Wrigleyville, and not wanting to pay for a seat in a restaurant I sat down outside on a public ledge next to the sidewalk and started to answer some work emails.  I struck up a conversation with a man [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Pale Blue Dot</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2010/08/16/225/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:48:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>

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

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From Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994):

From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of particular interest. But for us, it&#8217;s different. Consider again that dot. That&#8217;s here, that&#8217;s home, that&#8217;s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Forward</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2010/08/04/moving-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 04:46:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[California]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Civil Rights]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Gay Marriage]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California decided that Proposition 8 to the California constitution violated the United States constitution.  This decision marks one more step in the historic&#8211;and seemingly endless&#8211;march for gay rights in the United States and the world.
California has long been a center of gay activism and progress [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notes on Friendship (and Facebook)</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2010/08/03/notes-on-friendship-and-facebook/</link>
		<comments>http://brianmayer.com/2010/08/03/notes-on-friendship-and-facebook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:52:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I found this article the other day, and it isn&#8217;t that recent article by today&#8217;s terms (read: 6 months ago) but it is still relevant.
First and foremost, I found it particularly interesting how Deresiewicz tied the history of friendship to our latest foray into &#8220;faux&#8221; friendship, seeming to trace a line directly from Plato to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mongolian Economics</title>
		<link>http://brianmayer.com/2010/07/01/mongolian-economics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:59:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Mayer</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So being in Mongolia has been a bit of an affirmation of Friedman economics for me, not that I had such a problem with them before but Mongolia takes the models to such an extreme that it provides a willing test subject and performs very well.
We pulled into Ulaanbaatar (UB) by train at about 6 [...]]]></description>
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