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		<title>15 Things I&#8217;m Thankful For in 2011</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/11/25/2011/15-things-im-thankful-for-in-2011/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 13:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My life is amazing. A dream life. Doing exactly what I want to do, day in and day out. How I got here, I don&#8217;t really know. But I&#8217;m thankful. Here are 15 specific things I&#8217;m thankful for this year: 1. For my two wild boys 2. For thrilling events like Warrior Dash &#038; Bonnaroo [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Value and The Uniqueness Myth</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/11/13/2011/value-and-the-uniqueness-myth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 14:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Sometimes I have music on my mind and this post brings several songs to mind&#8230; so here&#8217;s a link to the soundtrack for this post in case you enjoy multi-sensory experiences like I do;-) We all want to be valued. That&#8217;s a basic human need. For whatever opaque reason, in romantic relationships, the need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Grateful &amp; Wide Eyed</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/11/07/2011/being-grateful/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since saturday I have seen some amazing spectacles of nature for the first time in my life: - female pygmy goats doing some kind of dance as part of a mating ritual - Alabama cotton fields under the glow of a setting sun - a flock of this tiny little white bird on Florida&#8217;s gulf [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nature is Carnivorous</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:51:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animals kill and consume animals. It&#8217;s a fact of life. And the Earth itself not only provides life for animals but it consumes them too (through death and decomposition). Nature is carnivorous, through and through. I do not mean this as a criticism of vegetarianism or veganism. Everyone has his or her reasons. But I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Things Every Guy Should Know About Women  &#8230; and mostly not give a f#@k about</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/10/12/2011/30-things-every-guy-should-know-about-women-and-mostly-not-give-a-fk-about/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 17:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I read this article at Men&#8217;s Health and admired the female author for her candor about typical female insanity (of course this comment is not directed at the over 3 billion anomalies). Here are the 30 Things Every Guy Should Know About Women with my interjected commentary: 1. Her Best Friend Knows Everything - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beyond Narratives</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/10/03/2011/beyond-narratives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know a woman who&#8217;s entire sense of self is wrapped up in what others think of her. To increase her sense of value, she seeks validation. Because she does not get the validation as often as she&#8217;d like, she genuinely believes that people do not love her (even those close to her who would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>basic math doesn&#8217;t work for every domain of life.</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/10/02/2011/basic-math-doesnt-work-for-every-domain-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[in business, it is often the case that spreading the pie increases the size of the pie. so 20% can be greater than 100%. this doesn&#8217;t make intuitive sense, but it makes sense in the light of human motivation and social cooperation. the sum is greater than the parts. let&#8217;s say that i have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burning incense at our altars</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/09/09/2011/burning-incense-at-our-altars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:46:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was attending a lecture with a varied but exclusively university-oriented audience of some five hundred when the lecturer, a Ph.D. in physics, said, almost in passing, &#8220;Remember that only three hundred years ago men actually believed the world was flat!&#8221; Considerable knowing laughter greeted this astonishing misrepresentation (or, should I say, falsehood?), and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>nor do I think that it is a desirable state of affairs when women see men as the enemy</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/08/29/2011/nor-do-i-think-that-it-is-a-desirable-state-of-affairs-when-women-see-men-as-the-enemy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 23:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the Strauss-Kahn case has uncovered the divide, not between men and women so much as between old and new feminists. Old feminists, from Genevieve Clark to Erica Jong, believed that the goal was political and sexual freedom for women, not the political and sexual subordination of men. I cannot accept the idea that womanhood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conservatives &amp; Liberals</title>
		<link>http://micah.sparacio.org/08/25/2011/conservatives-liberals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Micah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conservatives want to be your daddy, telling you what to do and what not to do. Liberals want to be your mommy, feeding you, tucking you in, and wiping your nose.]]></description>
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