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	<title>It Is What It Is - Or Is It?</title>
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		<title>North is South and South is North &#8212; in South Carolina</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=533</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irony]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What transpired last week in the South Carolina Republican Primary was a cllinic in misdirection, obfuscation, and ironic expression. Steven Colbert&#8211;the comedian and (fake) TV talk show host&#8211;bases his act on winking hyperbole. His bloviating pundit doesn&#8217;t really believe&#8211;or mean&#8211;what he says, right? How could he possibly? But recently the fake Steven Colbert has become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Not Blaming the Refs</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=509</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:47:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenging calls]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coach Jim Schwartz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit Lions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[referees]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I love what Detroit Lions&#8217; head coach Jim Schwartz has accomplished since taking over the team three years ago. Making steady progress almost from the start, he&#8217;s quickly transformed the team from longtime joke and near-term catastrophe to one of the most relevant and intriguing teams in the NFL. As a lifelong fan of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s to Love?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=498</link>
		<comments>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=498#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:42:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Serena Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sports parenting]]></category>

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		<title>Nutty Newt?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=465</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich says as President he’d require judges—including Supreme Court Justices—to “explain their rulings” at Congressional hearings. Asked which rulings would be the subject of this cumbersome (not to mention unconstitutional) scrutiny, he admitted that he’d start only with those that were “extreme.” Under the heading of saying what you mean—or of this blog’s narrower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trying To Keep A Job</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=405</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 17:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pandering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seniority]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          Politicians appear increasingly motivated only by what helps them to keep their jobs. Many run for office following often long and sometimes lucrative careers so money may not be a major motivator, but power&#8216;s a known stimulant. Once you&#8217;ve been a U.S. Senator or Representative, it&#8217;s easy to find follow-on employment &#8212; often in the private sector, at many multiples of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does He Even Believe What He Says?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=348</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 22:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NBC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trump]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=348</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[          When President Obama released his birth certificate, Donald Trump was rendered useless but not mute. The Donald thumped his chest and declared himself &#8220;proud to have accomplished something nobody else has been able to accomplish.&#8221; And then he did sit mute as the President gave Trump a public beat-down at the White House Correspondence dinner on the night &#8212; and mere hours &#8212; before the Commander in Chief cooly pulled the trigger on Osama [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Message Delivered = Message Received?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=208</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blackberry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Droid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[texting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[          Before I upgraded, just last week, to a Droid x2, I was hanging on to my trusty old Blackberry &#8212; the very first World edition, according to the snickering but helpful Verizon employee who sold me the new phone. The old one died, which is what had to happen to force me to swap it for something everybody had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Debt Deadline Dread</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=360</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:29:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[showdown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          I&#8217;m worried, if not for our country&#8217;s actual ability to meet its obligations then certainly about the messages our lawmakers are sending &#8212; to Wall Street, to U.S. bondholders, and to investors and policy makers around the world  &#8212; regarding our continued willingness to do so. Our stubborn and perpetually warring political parties are as far apart as ever on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Know What You&#8217;re Talking About</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=354</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 22:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recovery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          All that New York Times reporter Mark Bittman knew about Detroit was what he had heard and read. And none of it was good. But then he visited:  http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/17/imagining-detroit/?hp           So there&#8217;s a simple communications lesson here, right? Do your own homework. Never base your opinions on what others say or write. First-hand knowledge is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photo Expressions</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=338</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 May 2011 22:26:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Osama Bin Laden]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          A picture may be worth 1000 words, but how many messages does it send? http://http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/the-power-in-a-photo/?scp=3&#38;sq=brooks%20collins&#38;st=cse           Somebody looks pretty damn focused on his target. And speaking of the target: what purpose would be served &#8212; and what message would be sent &#8212; by a photo of Osama Bin Laden in whatever condition he may have been left [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Credibility Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=328</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[buget crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rating agencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Standard & Poors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[U.S. debt rating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US. debt]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          I&#8217;m no economics expert, but it doesn&#8217;t require more than a merely glancing awareness of rating agencies &#8212; and their role in the economic meltdown of late 2008 &#8212; to be skeptical of Standard &#38; Poor&#8217;s recent downgrade of United States debt obligations. The agency bestowed its top-tier AAA seal of approval on every toxic subprime security that led [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Does President Obama Stand For?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=295</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paul Krugman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          Paul Krugman argues in The New York Times that President Obama&#8217;s message is muted or missing:  http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/11/opinion/11krugman.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB           Do you know what causes President Obama stands for? Do you know what he will stand up for?]]></description>
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		<title>Doing What You Said You&#8217;d Do</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=243</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bargaining]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Rick Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan budget]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          Let us set aside the merits, and especially the politics, of Michigan Governor Rick Snyder&#8217;s budget proposal and &#8212; pursuant to the MilWrite Blog mission &#8212; analyze his message, and how he&#8217;s been delivering it.           Since presenting his budget &#8212; and after the inevitable sniping that immediately followed &#8211; the Governor has stayed calm. He has smiled and he has shrugged. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Sheen Winning?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=280</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:41:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlie Sheen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Winning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          I don&#8217;t care about this. But everybody&#8217;s talking about it so I have to care at least enough to weigh in with some sort of opinion when it invariably comes up as a topic of discussion at the office, on the street, or over a cocktail. (Plus it does technically fall within the Message Delivery Analysis parameters of the MilWrite [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting the Tone</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=219</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[public employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          I suggested in an earlier post that President Obama may have been sending an unintended message when he froze all Federal government salaries at the end of last year. Now, as state and local budget battles ensue across the country, the starting point is not whether but how and how much to cut government employee compensation and benefits. Public unions are public [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Give ‘Em What They Want</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=217</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 21:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NFL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roger Goodell]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          National Football League team owners and the NFL Players Association are deadlocked over terms for a new collective bargaining agreement. Though the existing agreement will expire on March 3, the sides have barely talked. A few meetings are scheduled, and most observers predict that indifference will turn to frenzy, as usual, as the deadline approaches. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That’s What I’m Talking About</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=195</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chrsyler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Eminem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Super Bowl ads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          The Chrysler/Detroit/Eminem Super Bowl commercial everyone&#8217;s still talking about:           http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKL254Y_jtc&#38;feature=player_detailpage           Let&#8217;s keep the conversation going.]]></description>
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		<title>You Don’t Say?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=192</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[young workers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          Saying is believing – isn’t that the expression some use? (Okay, it&#8217;s Seeing, but close enough.) Others plead, “From your lips to God’s ears.” Or the opposite: Say it ain’t so!           But talk is cheap. We all know it takes more than talk to make something happen. But we also believe in positive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook Friend or Foe?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=181</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 23:33:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Facebook]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friending protocol]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          I reluctantly joined Facebook and after three years I’m still a tentative user. I very occasionally post a status update, and in rare moments I’ve been moved to opine on someone else’s comment or picture. But mostly I lurk.           I enjoy perusing the site, and I don’t mean to be anti-social. I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Employee Compensation Freeze</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=167</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Federal employees]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[President Obama]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          Reasonable and knowledgeable people agree that placing a hold on Federal employee compensation will have a less than insignificant (if not utterly imaginary) impact on the nation’s budget woes. So if it is agreed, given the size of the federal deficit and resultant accumulating debt, that the “freeze” accomplishes next to nothing in addressing those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manage or Manipulate</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=158</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 23:36:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Big ten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Brandon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan football]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rich Rod]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          In the days just prior to detailed disclosure of the Big Ten’s divisional realignment, University of Michigan athletic director David Brandon warned that U-M fans should be prepared to “embrace change.” Asked if this suggestion had been calculated to gauge public reaction to rumors that the Michigan-Ohio State game would be moved from its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Casual or Careless?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=136</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 22:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bill Martin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bo Schembechler]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan football]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[          Former University of Michigan Athletic Director Bill Martin was in a story-telling mood in the days prior to his departure in March of this year. Martin told annarbor.com that he and his wife Sally used to love to ride their bicycles to the U-M football games in the early 1960s because the stadium was never crowded and they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Private Speech Made Public</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=127</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 01:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Governor Jerry Brown]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[During the latter stages of the political campaign of former – and now two-time – California Governor Jerry Brown, an audiotape surfaced in the media that was said to contain a conversation among the Governor and his staff members during which one of the staffers called Brown’s opponent, Meg Whitman, a “whore.” The Whitman campaign [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teach, Preach, or Merely Mention</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=97</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote last week of my pleasant surprise when a colleague told me he had been inspired by advice I had offered long ago. This reminded me of another time I was informed well after the fact that my words had been helpful &#8212; but in this case my advice had been inadvertent.  Very early one Sunday morning a number of years ago an acquaintance and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan chooses…Rick Snida?</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=84</link>
		<comments>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=84#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 21:20:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rick Snyder]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TV ads]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen – or I should say heard – the latest “Rick Snyder for Governor” television commercial? The Ann Arbor venture capitalist’s campaign tagline is “Rick for Michigan,” and the commercial offers a straightforward message: Snyder is the best man to turn this troubled state around. As puppies romp in slow-motion and young children throw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>21st Century Calling Card</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=21</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[21st Century calling card]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Not long ago a colleague told me I had inspired him to write his first book (he&#8217;s since gone on to publish three or four more). He said it was because I once told him, &#8220;A book is the 21st Century Calling Card.&#8221; This would have been in the late 1990s &#8212; it was a phrase I often used in those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome — and Vote</title>
		<link>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=1</link>
		<comments>http://www.milwrite.com/about/blog/?p=1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Oct 2010 20:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy H. Milgrom</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Message Delivery Analysis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[voting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to It Is What It Is &#8212; Or Is It? My name is Randy Milgrom, and I&#8217;ll be your host and moderator.           This Blog examines news from the realms of business, politics, sports, and culture. It asks &#8212; if not always answers &#8211; at least two questions: What message is intended? And what message is received? It may [...]]]></description>
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