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	<title>Restoring Social Balance &#187; Middle Class Culture</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Female Thing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:50:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		I am the only male living in a house with four females.  Three have the same last name as me, including two daughters home from college; the fourth is a student we are housing from Yale&#8217;s summer school for music.
We recently replaced our bathtub shelving.  We use a pole in a corner that stretches from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol Trends</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 13:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		I wish to dispel claims about two opposing trends on American Idol, along with making my own claim for one trend that the evidence seems to support.
Every year Ryan Seacrest maintains that the talent is better than ever.  Meanwhile, there is growing &#8220;scuttlebut&#8221; on the Internet that the talent pool has peaked and is not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Watch Basketball?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 14:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		In addition to complaining about UConn women dominance (as commented on in the previous post), some columnists and bloggers bemoan that women&#8217;s basketball is not as pleasing to watch as men&#8217;s basketball because of the difference in athleticism.  This complaint is perhaps more honest than the one about dominance, but nevertheless thrives on two faulty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UConn Women Basketball Dominance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:25:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		I am a fan of both UConn women basketball and empirical logic.  When the two collide that attracts my interest and, in this case, commentary.  Posing the question “Are the UConn Huskies bad for women basketball?” has been a hot media topic in response to a record-setting win streak spanning two seasons, with record-setting margins [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Idol &#8211; 2010 &#8211; Round 9</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		Last year I commented that there are contestants who have broad support and some that have niche support.  The people with niche support, most typically the teeny-bopper niche, survive in the early rounds regardless of performance and makes the early rounds hard to predict.  The most famous example of this was Sanjaya (though I don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Middle Class Questions from Investor.ge &#8211; Final Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 12:33:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		I sent along some final thoughts to the editor of the business magazine for the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia, Molly Curso.  Here they are.
Final Thoughts
First, I would like to qualify my previous answer to question #2.  I said markets were necessary for the middle class.  I would add that free markets are best.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is the Mental Class Mentality? &#8211; Final Question from Investor.ge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:27:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		Last week I posted my responses to three questions asked by the editor of a business magazine put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia (the country).  Here is my response to her final question.
(4) Is there such a thing as the mentality of the middle class? There is the idea that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Middle Class a Cause or Effect?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.middleclassforum.org/http:/www.middleclassforum.org/is-the-middle-class-a-cause-or-effect/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 14:12:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		Here is the third question posed to me by the editor of the business magazine Investor.ge, put out by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia.
(3) Why is it (the middle class) important? Can we say it is more important economically than socially or does it play an important role in both spheres? What is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Is the Middle Class? &#8211; A Question from Investor.ge</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		I recently got a request for an interview by the editor of a business magazine, Investor.ge.  The magazine is produced by the American Chamber of Commerce in Georgia (the country).  For those aware of recent events on The Middle Class Forum this is quite ironic.  There is a recent commenter out there rolling his eyes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring Cultural Balance &#8211; Become Paternal Skeptics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:36:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corporate Media and Interest Groups]]></category>
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		We have devalued our belonging to people and place as our allegiance to paternal sources has grown.  These allegiances include political parties, corporations and interest groups.  We trust in these paternal sources, particularly as represented by corporate media and think tanks, while skeptical of human nature.  This reverses where the &#8220;innocent until proven guilty&#8221; focus [...]]]></description>
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