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	<title>David Ernst Chats with the World</title>
	<link>http://davidernst.net/blog</link>
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		<title>How uncontroversial can you get?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a bit ago about the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign&#8217;s efforts to get an ad on a bus here in Bloomington.  The message on the ad: &#8220;You can be good without God&#8221;.  As I stated previously, I really like this message&#8230; it&#8217;s positive, it&#8217;s not insulting, not even condescending, a great example of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/08/07/how-uncontroversial-can-you-get/</link>
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		<title>On Doing Nothing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230;and after they had walked a little way Christopher Robin said:
&#8220;What do you like doing best in the world, Pooh?&#8221;
&#8220;Well,&#8221; said Pooh, &#8220;what I like best&#8211;&#8221; and then he had to stop and think. [For the purposes of this post, you can skip straight to the next paragraph, but you'd probably rather read what Pooh [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/07/21/on-doing-nothing/</link>
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		<title>Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign launches&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://inatheistbus.org/2009/04/14/campaign-officially-launches/
I heard about this at the Hemant &#8220;Friendly Atheist&#8221; Mehta&#8217;s talk, but they seem more organized than I&#8217;d realized.  Great!  I love the message!  I&#8217;m On The Bus!
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		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/04/21/indiana-atheist-bus-campaign-launches/</link>
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		<title>Lecture Review: Hemant Mehta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Quick review: &#8220;Friendly atheist&#8221;: I cannot imagine a better name than that for this man.
It was a total accident that I happened to hear on the radio this morning about someone giving a lecture on campus this evening entitled &#8220;improving the atheist image&#8221;.  Wow, not only a talk about atheism, but about one aspect of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/03/30/lecture-review-hemant-mehta/</link>
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		<title>Tip for Obama: Veto the Earmark-Laden Omnibus Bill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear Mr. President,
I know, you said you weren&#8217;t going to, but&#8230; go ahead, Veto that bill.
Sorry that I&#8217;m writing you so late, but what can I say, there wasn&#8217;t much time.  And there still isn&#8217;t, so I&#8217;ll be really quick:

You ran against politics as usual, and the bill is totally politics as usual.  The party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/03/11/tip-for-obama-veto-the-earmark-laden-omnibus-bill/</link>
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		<title>A new &#8220;after work&#8221; loop</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been over a year now and Pri and I knew where we&#8217;d be moving into, and that whole time I&#8217;ve been imagining a certain bike route.  When I worked downtown and lived on the west side, I had a route in my mind that was sort of the &#8220;long way home&#8221; route, about 12 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/03/09/a-new-after-work-loop/</link>
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		<title>Concert Review: Ralph Stanley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For each of the first few years that I lived in Bloomington, I told myself that I should go to neighboring Brown County for the Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival and see Bill Monroe perform while he was still alive. But I didn&#8217;t.  I was there once, saw some great music, but as I recall, he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/03/07/concert-review-ralph-stanley/</link>
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		<title>Bullet Point Reactions to the State of the Whatever Address</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not officially a State Of The Union™ address, but you can read the prepared remarks or watch a video of the delivery thereof all from whitehouse.gov.  I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s an Obama administration original or not, but I LOVE that the Whitehouse is making information directly available to people like that.  Anyway, here [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/02/25/bullet-point-reactions-to-the-state-of-the-whatever-address/</link>
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		<title>Face Book Bomb!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ So apparently some of my friends (traditional English-language definition) coordinated some kind of a campaign to become my friends (modern social-networking definition) on facebook.  I received some 15 friend requests in the 11am hour this morning, without having a facebook account.  I actually had to wonder if somehow someone had managed to make an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/02/11/face-book-bomb/</link>
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		<title>Cold doesn&#8217;t stop everyone&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ok, it&#8217;s really cold.  I wanted to express my respect and good wishes to everyone who braved the cold on their bicycles today&#8230; most particularly, my Brazilian wife!  Very impressive!
The walk from my bedroom to my office was far less harrowing.  I did have to walk to the mailbox to send in my estimated tax [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://davidernst.net/blog/2009/01/15/cold-doesnt-stop-everyone/</link>
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