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		<title>Real Estate Tip: Condition, Location, Price, or Size</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2010/07/28/real-estate-tip-condition-location-price-or-size</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a well-known principle in project planning that states a project can be done fast, good, or cheap, pick two. Basically, a project done quickly and correctly will not be cheap; a project done correctly and cheaply will not be done quickly; and a project done fast and cheap will not be good. I&#8217;ve worked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Media Bias</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2008/10/26/media-bias</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The vast majority of the news we consume cannot be described as &#8220;impartial.&#8221; During the past year, subtle or overt bias appeared in almost all of the news coverage of the upcoming election that I&#8217;ve seen. It&#8217;s disturbing, it&#8217;s unfortunate, and it&#8217;s impossible to avoid. In what&#8217;s become an exceedingly rare occurrence, I agree with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to L.J. Williamson</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2007/04/17/an-open-letter-to-lj-williamson</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 02:39:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cultural]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear L.J. (or Linda), Since your Earthlink.net website&#8216;s contact info is incorrect, I thought I&#8217;d air my views in public. I enjoyed your article &#8220;Let Kids Outdoors&#8221; that was published in the L.A. Times on March 29. I agree that society as a whole seems to be suffocating children with safety, and that withholding all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas Shopping</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2006/12/20/christmas-shopping</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2006/12/20/christmas-shopping#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2006 04:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every year I tell myself that I&#8217;m doing all my shopping online since most stores are packed around the holidays. Each year I tell myself that I&#8217;ll do all my shopping a few months before the crowds hit the malls. Sometimes I swear off buying gifts all together. I&#8217;ve never planned to wait until a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Payments</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2006/02/20/making-payments</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2006/02/20/making-payments#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:31:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that so many companies make it so difficult to pay them? I think part of the problem is the rigitity of major corporations&#8217; financial departments, who only seem to know what to do when a payment comes in on time, paid in full. But life doesn&#8217;t work that way all the time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loverly Weather</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2005/12/16/loverly-weather</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2005/12/16/loverly-weather#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2005 06:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I used sarcasm in the post title; the picture may have let you in on the secret. I could also have titled this entry &#8220;Please Reconsider Using Public Transportation When It Snows.&#8221; Today Baltimore received its third helping of wintry weather so far this season. Since Charm City is snuggled mid-Atlanticly, Mother Nature likes to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working Out</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2005/10/10/working-out</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2005/10/10/working-out#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Oct 2005 17:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Annie and I saw a morbidly obese teen who was wearing a t-shirt that stated &#8220;This working out thing isn&#8217;t working out for me&#8221; in Burger King on Saturday. As we were leaving, I overheard him telling his similarly obese family about some other boy who was running down a hallway, waving his arms in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignoring Disaster</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2005/09/09/ignoring-disaster</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2005/09/09/ignoring-disaster#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote my last post about Katrina, I believed that the situation in New Orleans had sunk as low as it would, but I was very wrong. I knew that people had died and the city itself was devastated, but I never thought that the disaster response would be this bungled. It&#8217;s insane that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s a Gas</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2005/09/02/lifes-a-gas</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2005/09/02/lifes-a-gas#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2005 21:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received a phone call from Annie that she heard that gas stations in Baltimore would be closing this afternoon because of a fuel shortage. The rumor came from a friend of a friend who works downtown; they were let off early so that they could fill up their vehicles before the stations closed. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Katrina&#8217;s Wake</title>
		<link>http://mekosh.org/2005/09/01/katrinas-wake</link>
		<comments>http://mekosh.org/2005/09/01/katrinas-wake#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2005 19:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mekosh.org/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The past 36 hours have brought a much greater understanding of the magnitude and severity of Hurricane Katrina&#8217;s destruction. Nowhere has this been more pronounced than in New Orleans, which has descended into a watery hell. Compounding matters is the widespread looting, violence, and societal breakdown for the city. With thousands feared dead, New Orleans&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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