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		<title>Another View of the Iraq War</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the Iraq war now officially over, I thought it would be a good time to revisit my 2004 short documentary on the subject.  Still relevant today?  Maybe less so, but I think a good look from a point of view often absent when you&#8217;re sitting in the U.S. hearing about this topic. Living in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=781&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Transit Challenges in Ex-urban areas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 19:58:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I write a blog post for work. Today is one of those days.  (Click below.) &#160; Transit challenges in McHenry County Tagged: biking, McHenry, Metra, trains, transit<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=778&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Liberation Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Something is rotten in the state of Denmark&#8221; is one of the more famous quotes of Shakespeare&#8217;s Hamlet, and for good reason: it succinctly tells the audience just what they need to know.  There&#8217;s some screwy stuff happening (if the ghost wasn&#8217;t enough of an indication), so viewer beware. The people who are occupying Wall [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=773&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>education reform ain&#8217;t easy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As with everything that&#8217;s &#8220;broken,&#8221; we want a quick, easy fix.  We elect a new president and expect things to all be better in a few months, and if not, we ask, &#8220;What&#8217;s the problem?&#8221; Often, even if it&#8217;s only a temporary fix, if you can do it fast, that&#8217;s alright.  I think this is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=762&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why motorists should stop hating bicyclists (and maybe even join us)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 03:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As cities across the U.S. continue to expand their bicycle networks, every new project or bike lane seems to be coupled with an outcry from those choosing four wheels instead of two. Motorists complain about their loss of space and cite bicyclists as the cause of backups and delays. It’s not our fault. I left [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=758&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>oh, israel, what are you up to now&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/oh-israel-what-are-you-up-to-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2011 02:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While everyone in Washington continues to deal with this whole debt crisis thing, an interesting thing happened in Israel that could easily slip under the radar. At least for a while, as this is pretty atrocious, so hopefully news will spread and people will start to understand what&#8217;s up over there. The article headline pretty [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=755&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>fat (and getting fatter)</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/11/fat-and-getting-fatter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 02:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working for an organization that advocates for health and physical activity (in relation to transportation choices), I continually hear about the obesity epidemic. Released last week were the latest obesity figures, which you can see (adult and child) here: F as in Fat, 2011. It&#8217;s not a pretty site, with every state having an adult [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=748&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>why I don&#8217;t eat (most) meat</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/06/why-i-dont-eat-most-meat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[chickens]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[factory farms]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Bittman&#8217;s article, &#8220;Banned From the Barn,&#8221; details his inability to get a tour of what really goes on in factory farms, as well as the movement in some places to actually ban videos and reporters from revealing what happens in such places (luckily there&#8217;s been no success in that area&#8230; yet&#8230;) Some video of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=743&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not letting the fundamentalists win</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/not-letting-the-fundamentalists-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 01:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[fundamentalism (Webster&#8217;s dictionary) n. 2: a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles In case you hadn&#8217;t noticed, the &#8220;war on terror&#8221; is based on the idea that fundamentalism is bad.  There&#8217;s this group of people who believe a certain thing about religion or the U.S. or the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=733&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>American American</title>
		<link>http://ericbjorlin.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/american-american/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 18:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric bjorlin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s July 4, y’all, the day we celebrate the creation of these (wonderful) United States of American in 1776 with the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, and I&#8217;m back blogging with a vengeance! I’m not going to pretend the U.S. doesn’t have some pretty great things going for it; if you check out the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ericbjorlin.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1049335&amp;post=725&amp;subd=ericbjorlin&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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