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		<title>The Most Fun I&#8217;ll Ever Have In My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[02 April 2010 The lady on the internet said, &#8220;There&#8217;s nothing more fun than growing your own avocado tree.&#8221; That&#8217;s good to know. I could use some more fun in my life. Now I won&#8217;t need to take a trip to Amsterdam. Since avocados are my new favorite green fruit and the lure of many [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=741&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Gimme My $0.36</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 12:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[27 March 2010 I have come to completely despise banks. Earlier this year I realized that I didn&#8217;t need to do business with banks and I set up accounts at a local credit union. The credit union offers a better interest rate on my savings account* and far fewer banking fees and gotcha charges. Though [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=723&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One Step Closer to Plutocracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[22 January 2010 In a 5-4 ruling yesterday, the Supreme Court decided that allowing corporations and labor unions to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections somehow constitutes &#8220;free speech.&#8221; WTF? This, in my opinion, is a bad ruling. In an age when money&#8217;s influence on policy is evident in nearly every major act [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=715&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Justice with Michael Sandel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[16 January 2010 I discovered Michael Sandel&#8217;s Harvard political philosophy lectures a few hours ago. The third episode, &#8220;Free to Choose / Who Owns Me,&#8221; was on our local PBS earlier this afternoon. I was impressed. Then I found the whole 12-episode series online: Harvard University&#8217;s Justice with Michael Sandel This is great stuff. Intelligent, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=710&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mathematics of Pitch; Take 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[31 December 2009 Since I like both math and music, I can amuse myself by viewing music through a mathematical lens. I&#8217;m not really sure if this is a common trend among musicians, I just know that this has all been done before. Here is a somewhat simplified primer on the mathematics of pitch in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=694&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Winehouse Train Wreck</title>
		<link>http://davidarex.wordpress.com/2009/12/28/the-winehouse-train-wreck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Dec 2009 12:24:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[28 December 2009 Yesterday I was watching The Strat Pack: Live In Concert. Since I&#8217;ve been playing my Strat once in a while now (it spent many years encased), I figured I&#8217;d kick back and watch others play their guitars rather than do anything even remotely productive. She came home right around the time Amy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=689&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Intelligence Squared Debate: Mexican Drug War</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:41:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[27 December 2009 Last night She and I watched the Intelligence Squared debate. The proposition being  debated was &#8220;America is to Blame for Mexico&#8217;s Drug War.&#8221; Arguing for the motion were Fareed Zakaria, Jeffrey Miron and Andrés Martinez. Arguing against the proposition were Asa Hutchinson, Chris Cox and Jorge Castañeda. When polled prior to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=674&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>People Get Ready</title>
		<link>http://davidarex.wordpress.com/2009/12/26/people-get-ready/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[26 December 2009 Back in the eighties Jeff Beck covered this old Curtis Mayfield gospel romp on his album Flash, with Rod Stewart singing (who, IMO, was at best with the Jeff Beck group way back in the day). While Beck&#8217;s playing can be kinda hit-or-miss, he often surrounds himself with top-shelf talent. This video [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=666&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering the Godfather</title>
		<link>http://davidarex.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/remembering-the-godfather/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[25 December 2009 What happens to your soul when you die? To me, it was obvious. It goes to James Brown. So to honor the hardest working man in show business on the third anniversary of his death, here is the elder statesman of soul sharing his stage with the barefoot rising star of soul. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=658&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Gordo!</title>
		<link>http://davidarex.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/go-gordo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 00:49:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I used to gig with this guy&#8230; many years ago. Yeah! Go Gordo! Now he plays with the Wicked Pickers, and folks, their CD Irises is wonderful. These guys pull from a lot of different genres: jazz, bluegrass, folk, Irish jigs. That&#8217;s all for now&#8230; DAR Posted in Notes On Music<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=652&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ugly To the Bone</title>
		<link>http://davidarex.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/ugly-to-the-bone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some are friends for a lifetime and others are ugly to the bone. Some are just plain irresponsible. There are some types I don&#8217;t want hanging out around my door: they&#8217;re the ones who take it from the middle and give it to the rich and the poor. They love to take it from the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=646&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ice Cream Truck</title>
		<link>http://davidarex.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/the-ice-cream-truck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[07 July 2009 The ice cream truck in our neighborhood plays Christmas tunes. Just in case you were wondering. On the worst of days at my job&#8230; the grueling, dirty, physically demanding, ugly, smelly, sweaty days&#8230; The days where everything goes wrong, everybody wants everything yesterday, and I screw up everything I touch&#8230; At least [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=davidarex.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5528086&amp;post=629&amp;subd=davidarex&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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