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		<title>Thoughts on the Governor</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: 4:57 p.m. I erroneously suggested below that Mr. Rogers made claims about Jindal&#8217;s future plans beyond the Governor&#8217;s mansion. This is not the case, as Rogers made no such claim. Any such thoughts about a potential Jindal bid for the Presidency or some other high office is either speculation on my part or attributable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Merits of &#8220;Service Compris&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: Tip? I got your tip right here! I lunched just the other day with a friend at a local buffet that also provides a la carte service. I&#8217;ve frequented this establishment since it first opened and was, in fact, the very first paying customer through the door on the day it opened. Which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:51:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TO: National Pork Board 1776 NW 114th Street Des Moines, Iowa 50325 1-800-456-7675 515-223-2600 info@pork.org FROM:Michael DeVault RE: National Pork Board&#8217;s Cease and Desist to ThinkGeek.com To Whom It May Concern: Please let this letter serve as notice of my intent to lead a national boycott of American-produced pork products. I am not a member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Coast &#8211; Final Thoughts.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:35:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I spent 5 days on the Louisiana Gulf Coast to bring a first-hand perspective from a Louisiana journalist. While I intended to blog daily about it, by Day Two I was so overwhelmed with what I saw, it has taken me a week to adjust to the staggering devastation I saw and to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Coast &#8211; Day Two: Grand Isle.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 04:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael DeVault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the next few days, I’ll be blogging live from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, to bring a first-hand perspective from a Louisiana journalist. If you have specific questions, feel free to e-mail them to: me@michaeldevault.com. I’ll try to update this blog at least twice a day. One of the most impacted areas so far [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf Coast &#8211; Day One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 03:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael DeVault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the next few days, I&#8217;ll be blogging live from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana, to bring a first-hand perspective from a Louisiana journalist. If you have specific questions, feel free to e-mail them to: me@michaeldevault.com. I&#8217;ll try to update this blog at least twice a day. Day One: New Orleans, the sites, and Oyster [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter to Chuck Murphy, The Denver Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:13:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael DeVault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Response to this editorial. Dear Mr. Murphy, Please forgive my intrusion into your workday. I know how difficult it must be for you to answer emails from the boonies while living the Big City Life in Denver, Colorado, population, 2.5 million and change. We here in Monroe, Louisiana, population 46,500 or so, barely know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings of a Recovering Journalist</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 17:28:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or: The Perils of Blogs as a Source of Fact. I very rarely post anything to this blog that isn&#8217;t a reflection of events in my life, those happenings that are a firsthand experience. As a recovering journalist, I try to avoid speculative posts and rumor-repeating on my blog. Call it a holdover from when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring in the South</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael DeVault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in the most magical place on earth. Ask any Southerner and they will say some variation of the above statement with pride bordering on nostalgia. Am I proud of all things Southern? Not at all. There is a lot to be improved upon in my little corner of the globe. Yet, as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this what Journalists have become?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael DeVault</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like every red-blooded American male, I love sports. I love sports news almost as much as I love the actual watching of the sport. Golf is no exception, especially since it produced for us an American hero. Had he followed after President Barack Obama&#8217;s meteoric rise, we might well have referred to Tiger Woods as [...]]]></description>
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