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	<title>Tea Time With Jesse</title>
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		<title>Alternatives to The New York Times and Apple Responds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Updated to include cnet story, see below] At the moment, Apple (and by extension a friend of mine), is being put through the wringer by the New York Times. I can empathize, having been through the wringer with the 2006 Duke Men&#8217;s Lacrosse Team. If the articles lambasting Apple turn out to be inaccurate Apple [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2227&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sheesh, I Give Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I answered comments before reading the news. Thus it was that I wrote a response to a commenter that essentially asked for more citizenship from corporations, but was predicated on my feeling that Apple is basically good. Good, but I want them to do better. Then I turned to my news surfing and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2217&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My Treasonous Charge Gets Squashed</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 15:12:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annie, aka the cgig, gives a well reasoned counterpoint to my diatribe about Apple: [...], why is it considered treasonous in this case for the corporation to go overseas for workers? They were “born” here, partly due to the opportunities that the US provides…education supporting the creators; governmental regulations in their favour; etc. From there, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2208&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fun With Names</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apropos of nothing, I&#8217;ve imagined up with some fun names that I will probably never use. So I will write them down here and make a post about them. Might as well, can&#8217;t dance. File this under wtf? Jack Lumber, Private Eye The Liver Spots, an elderly punk band Nelson Gazpacho, provocateur romantique Got any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2202&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good, Bad, Ugly, Inc.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I read a fascinating NYTimes article about why Apple makes their iPhones in China instead of the US. The theme of the article is why can&#8217;t we build those products here, and begins with an anecdote of President Obama having a roundtable dinner with several IT CEOs, including Steve Jobs, and asking just that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2187&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music Fridays &#8211; Battle of the Divas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Music Fridays pretty much writes itself: Rest in Peace Etta James, d. Jan 20th 2012. Like a million other unoriginal wedding couples, the lovely one and I danced our first dance to the Etta James version of At Last (with all the obituaries in the news I am learning that James was not the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2183&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Recession is Three Years Old*&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:53:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://middlerage.wordpress.com/?p=2174</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;but Wealthy Manipulations Are Three Decades Old&#8230; &#8230;or, This Train Wreck Has Been A Long Time Coming&#8230; &#8230;or, yet another book to go on my to-read list&#8230; A while ago I posted a manifesto calling out our lack of power and how you have no political voice because you have no money. Now it seems [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2174&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Creepy Sentiment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:34:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Near my house is one of those Mega-churches. You know the ones &#8211; giant glittery edifice, glittery SUVs in the parking lot, folks with glittery hair-dos attending to hear about a glittery god who wants you to make glittery money. They had a sign out front for a special event, &#8220;Faith Harvest!&#8221; Now I understand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2166&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time For Another &#8216;Phrases I Like&#8217; Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Been a while since I&#8217;ve updated the Phrases I Like category. First I want to highlight a contribution from the coolest-gal-in-geophysics who supplies this saying from New Zealand (her words): A real Kiwi phrase that I love: spat the dummy. It means either throw a huge fit (people) or break in a catastrophic manner (things). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2154&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Music Fridays &#8211; Classical is Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>middlerage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Who says classical music has to be dour or bombastic or intellectual. Here is a set of bracing fun that I have on my workout playlist. Next time you&#8217;re looking for some stimulating heavy metal to get you through your errand running, consider this selection (and just as you would with Metallica &#8211; turn it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=middlerage.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11669862&amp;post=2160&amp;subd=middlerage&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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