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	<title>Against the Grain &#187; Cultural Values</title>
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		<title>Patriotism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not willing to go far as to say freedom is the last refuge of the scoundrel. But Tea Party patriots often make me feel as if my own patriotism can never possibly match the depths of their own brand of flag-waving and highly demonstrative calls for pledges of allegiance. I am not and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Louise Erdrich&#8217;s Novel, Shadow Tag</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:38:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shadow Tag Louise Erdrich HarperCollins, 2010 255 pp Reading theorists have told us many times that readers take an active part in creating the very narratives they&#8217;re reading. A text is not static, no matter what the intention of the writer. Once the story goes out there, we, as readers, begin a kind of paint-by-numbers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Christianity and Mammon</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 19:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a religion that preached “poverty of spirit.” It was a high-church Christian religion with lots of rituals, pomp, icons, and incense. As a child and an adolescent, I was told that poverty existed on a higher, more spiritual plain than wealth because, if I were poor, I would not be distracted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alice Munro, &#8220;Too Much Happiness&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 23:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Too Much Happiness Alice Munro Alfred A. Knopf, 2009 304pp Alice Munro is one of those rare literary icons who has the distinct reputation as a crossover writer. She is admired by academics for her literary sensibilities, the mainstream for her easy-to-identify-with characters, and fiction writers who continue to be amazed at her ability to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea Party Patriots, Part II</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/242/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my last blog essay, I attempted to unravel the many complaints of the Tea Party followers. Three issues, however, seem to stick in the craw of those who believe in their heart of hearts that America is on the road to self-destruction: (1) The continuing loss of freedom because of big government and what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tea-Party Patriots (Part I)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:49:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patriotic fervor takes many roads these days. Now there is a new highway entrance for the disgruntled and the angry in America. They are the new-and-allegedly-improved original tea-party patriots of America&#8217;s legendary Boston Tea Party. If there is a bonding message among the Tea Party followers, it is simply that they are not being heard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forgiveness</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/forgiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:54:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in a religion in which confession was a weekly ritual. As I child, I remember standing in line outside the confessional waiting anxiously for my turn to go into a dark private room and begin with the words, “bless me father, for I have sinned.” Then I would recite my litany of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Insurance, a Crapshoot</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/health-insurance-a-crapshoot/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/health-insurance-a-crapshoot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is certain, as the saying goes, except death and taxes. We live in a world of uncertainties. No one has any control of where they&#8217;re going to be born, what kind of parents they&#8217;re going to have, and what economic and social status they&#8217;re going to born into. We don&#8217;t come into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Senior Citizens</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-senior-citizen-moi/</link>
		<comments>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/cultural-values/the-senior-citizen-moi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:06:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the recession hit America this past year and the unemployment rates continue to hover around 10%, older Americans are becoming increasingly paranoid about the threat of being let go or bought out by their employers—for the sake of raising the bar, let&#8217;s just call it the Willy Loman syndrome Older full-time employees are often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Self-Discovery Journeys</title>
		<link>http://johntmarohn.com/blog/uncategorized/many-roads-many-journeys/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:59:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John T Marohn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Because I was well into my adulthood before I began to figure out who I am, it is difficult for me to see where the desire to know about myself  could ever be a bad thing. The self-knowledge journey continues and, I hope, will be with me for the rest of my life. On the [...]]]></description>
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