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		<title>Ubuntu</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“We are bound up in a delicate network of interdependence because, as we say in our African idiom, a person is a person through other persons. To dehumanize another inexorably means that one is dehumanized as well.” -Archbishop Desmond Tutu, No Future without Forgiveness]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=121</link>
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		<title>Wait&#8230; I have a blog?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At least I am not alone.]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=117</link>
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		<title>Not thinking = think no evil?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Frustrated today by the seemingly endless desire for some people to aggressively protect themselves from thoughts that may challenge their ideologically-confined worldview, I again turned to Billy Collins for humor and poignancy while attempting to understand this odd phenomenon of pursuing ignorance out of fear of what may result from considering something "different." "See No [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=109</link>
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		<title>My Apologies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Christian and as a Minnesotan, I feel the need to apologize for recent comments from members of my faith and my home state. All I can truly offer is to say that not all Christians and not all Minnesotans are this small-minded. Christians, as all U.S. citizens, are free to vote for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=100</link>
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		<title>Man in Black</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The shuffle on my entire iTunes library decided to take a break from giving me one Christmas song after another and play this beauty of a song, reminding me once again of the power of these lyrics. No real introduction is necessary. Well, you wonder why I always dress in black, Why you never see [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=96</link>
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		<title>The Music of Autumn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The increasingly cool weather combined with the earlier setting sun has definitely put me in the autumnal mood. Even though these signposts most surely mark the end of summer, I confess that I look forward to them every year. They bring to mind good memories of school, especially those final years at North Park; they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=88</link>
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		<title>The Cast of &#8220;Operation Chaos&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading through an article about Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos" I came to this passage: "We have done our part to expose Obama through our support of 'Operation Chaos,' effectively using the Clinton campaign as our foil, and Obama and the Democrat Party are the weaker for it," he said. "Every objective has been met and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=87</link>
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		<title>a few of my favorite things</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I always enjoy it when a particular confluence of events results in a few of my favorite things all appearing within the same vicinity of one another. That happened this evening while reading Michael Chabon's most recent column in Details magazine (the sole reason for my paid subscription). In the first paragraph of his column [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=85</link>
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		<title>Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always had a fascination with the concept of home. I am not sure if this fascination is because I am a self-described homebody who would rather spend a vacation close to home than traveling the globe (that is slowly beginning to change in my advancing years) or if the fascination is more base, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=83</link>
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		<title>A real-world &#8220;Ten Wickets&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy: Halfway around the world, a lone man has accomplished an extraordinary athletic feat. Dan: What? Jeremy: I don't know. Sports Night, Season 1: Episode 21 CNN.com article, 9/24/07: "India claim thrilling Twenty20 win" After reading that article, I very much understand what Jeremy is saying. Someday I hope to understand cricket.]]></description>
		<link>http://innerring.net/?p=82</link>
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