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	<title>Jack Burns Lives!</title>
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	<description>Commentary, ideas and miscellany in the spirit of Edward Abbey</description>
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		<title>Welcome to the Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who would have thought Detroit would be the city leading America to the post-Peak oil, mega-capitalist, industrial age?  
Detroit is embarking on a plan that would reduce the size of the city and restore its blighted core to a greener, more rural landscape that more closely resembles the area before the Age of Oil. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackburnslives.com/blog/2010/03/09/welcome-to-the-future/</link>
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		<title>Monarchy</title>
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Perhaps we&#8217;d be better off with a King or a Queen.  As Abbey said, we shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;&#8230;entrust the management of our lives to &#8220;kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.&#8221; Just drop the King part. 
Why?
After years of living in the The Bible Belt, where The Good Book apparently rules all, I&#8217;m convinced there [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackburnslives.com/blog/2010/03/04/monarchy/</link>
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		<title>Hong Kong Phooey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town&#8217;s in trouble.-Edward Abbey
At a House Budget Committee meeting last Wednesday, second term Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke said that the Fed will &#8220;not print money&#8221; to pay for United States burgeoning debt.  That&#8217;s the traditional way for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jackburnslives.com/blog/2010/03/02/hong-kong-phooey/</link>
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