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		<title>Bailing Miss Daisy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prediction: The day the bailout of the auto industry fails in the Senate, the DJIA drops more than 700 points.
Why do I suggest this?  It&#8217;s fairly simple.  Today, Congress has agreed a bipartisan plan, provided the industry can present a &#8220;viable&#8221; and compelling business plan by December 2 &#8212; 12 days away.  So if the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/11/20/bailing-miss-daisy/</link>
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		<title>Clinton and the job market</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton a contender for secretary of state - FT.com
Around six months ago, when I was still supporting Hillary&#8217;s presidential bid, but conceding that it was falling short, I proposed that Obama would take the nomination.  Though many were riding high on the change they could believe in, my concession was based on the speculation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter: listening to habs pos&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twitter: listening to habs postgame podcast&#8230; Wistful for a schwartz smoked meat sandwich.  Montreal me manque  
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		<title>Nicholas Carr on the net and &#8220;ideological amplification&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In theory, &#8220;preferences for broader knowledge, or even randomized information, can also be indulged.&#8221;  In reality though, our slight bias in favor of similarity over dissimiliarty is difficult, if not impossible to eradicate.  It&#8217;s part of human nature.  Not surprisingly, then, Brynjolfsson and Van Alstyne report that their model indicates, in a direct echo of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Habs centennial</title>
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This is a very wistful year for me and it likely won&#8217;t be the last post I write on this subject.  This year marks the 100th season of existence of the Montreal Canadiens existence.  My name is not being immortalized in Centennial Plaza.  I&#8217;m not getting the opportunity to see the Bell [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/09/12/habs-centennial/</link>
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		<title>Love and marriage go together&#8230;along with money&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Key to Wedded Bliss? Money Matters, by Tara Siegel Bernard, NYTIMES, 9/10/2008
This article is totally true.  All of it.
In my senior year of high school, I wrote my thesis on how the basis of humanity boils to two P&#8217;s: Procreation and Provision (I wish I was able to recover it from my first [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/09/11/love-and-marriage-go-togetheralong-with-money/</link>
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		<title>Moved along the net&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who haven&#8217;t noticed in the past couple of days, I&#8217;ve moved the location of my web page.  No, I haven&#8217;t moved from the actual smalrus.com domain name itself&#8230; But I have moved my hosting/domain name provider.  After seven years with my old host, they decided to raise their prices to what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/09/08/moved-along-the-net/</link>
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		<title>The non-altruistic case for local produce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NYT: Supermarket Chains Narrow Their Sights
I find this article to be humourous.  It&#8217;s as if they are portraying supermarkets as altruistic to the local produce farmers.
In my opinion, the fact of the matter is that their research toward consumer attitudes hasn&#8217;t changed perceptions toward local and/or produce. The Hannaford Brothers&#8217;s research isn&#8217;t really demonstrating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/08/06/the-non-altruistic-case-for-local-produce/</link>
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		<title>Only luck can save America’s economy&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It is worth remembering where the blame for this neutering of fiscal policy lies: squarely with the Bush administration. At the start of this decade, the budget stood in surplus to the tune of 2.4 per cent of GDP. On unchanged policy, this was expected to grow to a surplus of 4.5 per cent of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.smalrus.com/2008/08/04/only-luck-can-save-america%e2%80%99s-economy/</link>
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		<title>When was the last time I used &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When was the last time I used twitter?  I mean, I know it was the new big thing, but I don&#8217;t feel like it&#8217;s really taken off&#8230;


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