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	<title>Matt Rouge: thoughts on life, relationships, spirituality, and art</title>
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		<title>Glenda Harty&#039;s message on acceptance, with my thoughts appended</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Glenda Harty is a dear friend, a marvelous teacher, and a powerful healer. She owns and operates the Sol Centre in Carmel, Indiana. If you require spiritual guidance or physical/mental/spiritual healing, please have a look at her website and see if she might be the right choice for you.
The other day, Glenda sent out by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/12/glenda-hartys-message-on-acceptance-with-my-thoughts-appended/</link>
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		<title>Want Iran not to have nukes? Then get rid of our own.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To understand my basic philosophy that underpins what I&#8217;m about to say, please read my post on love of neighbor.
Here&#8217;s something more:
They came to Capernaum. When he was in the house, he asked them, &#8220;What were you arguing about on the road?&#8221; But they kept quiet because on the way they had argued about who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/10/want-iran-not-to-have-nukes-then-get-rid-of-our-own/</link>
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		<title>&quot;DON&#039;T LAY A FLOWER ON THIS POET&#039;S GRAVE&quot;&#8211;a poem by Matt Rouge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MATT ROUGE
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DON’T LAY A FLOWER ON THIS POET’S GRAVE.
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Don’t lay a flower on this poet’s grave
or look within these words to know my face:
to who is gone, such kindness is a sieve
that cannot leave your hands the finer trace.
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Don’t meditate upon this day alone
with remnants gathered from the Internet,
pretending you had cheered the way, or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/09/dont-lay-a-flower-on-this-poets-grave-a-poem-by-matt-rouge/</link>
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		<title>&quot;SANKHARA-DUKKHA&quot;&#8211;a poem by Matt Rouge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MATT ROUGE
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SANKHARA-DUKKHA.
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Among the things you know about my soul
is that I’d always sought its qualities,
and when at last I won, our ecstasies
were only matched in depth by losing all.
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Searching again, I gained each part in full,
but not within one entity to choose:
one had our tones, another one our hues,
and one the scents that breach the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/09/sankhara-dukkha-a-poem-by-matt-rouge/</link>
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		<title>Love means not testing the other person</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More and more it strikes me that life is a series of tests. Now, when something happens to me or a person does something to me I don&#8217;t like, I ask myself, &#8220;How am I being tested here? What is the wise and loving way to respond?&#8221;
It has therefore also occurred to me that, in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/09/love-means-not-testing-the-other-person/</link>
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		<title>I love factories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I love factories. I love warehouses. I love getting my hands on machines and learning how they work.
I worked in the semiconductor industry in Japan from October 2002 to May 2004. My job was marketing, but for the first six months I trained in the applications lab, learning to run the dicing saws that cut [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/09/i-love-factories/</link>
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		<title>We don&#039;t give medical care to people because they deserve it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don&#8217;t give medical care to people because they deserve it. We don&#8217;t give it to them because they earn it. This is a simple&#8211;and important&#8211;concept that I&#8217;ve yet to hear clearly expressed in the ongoing medical care debate.
This isn&#8217;t merely my ideal; this is how the United States actually behaves. Proving the point is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/08/we-dont-give-medical-care-to-people-because-they-deserve-it/</link>
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		<title>The key to understanding the self-branding of the right: &quot;American Honky-Tonk Bar Association&quot;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t have a problem with genuine conservatives and libertarians, although I disagree with them quite a bit. Mitch Daniels and Richard Lugar are two Republican politicians in Indiana I respect (and I voted for Mitch in the past election). I&#8217;m disgusted, however, with the right-wingers whose actions are not based on a rational assessment [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/08/the-key-to-understanding-the-self-branding-of-the-right-american-honky-tonk-bar-association/</link>
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		<title>My response to Iain Scott&#039;s &quot;Top 50 Greatest Films&quot; post</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here is Scott&#8217;s original post. Here is Andrew O&#8217;Hehir&#8217;s post on Salon, where I originally learned about Scott&#8217;s post. Regarding Scott&#8217;s methodology, O&#8217;Hehir says,
Iain Stott of the One-Line Review just completed his 2009 poll of 187 critics, filmmakers, bloggers and other cinephiles, and the results make fascinating reading.
O&#8217;Hehir goes on to speculate that critical opinion [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/07/my-response-to-iain-scotts-top-50-greatest-films-post/</link>
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		<title>Movie review: &quot;Observe and Report&quot; shows us how hard it is to love ourselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT!
Observe and Report on IMDb
Observe and Report on Metacritic
Observe and Report on Rotten Tomatoes
Matt Rouge&#8217;s score: 4.5/5.0
Pros. Very strong performances by all. Engaging story. Dead-on satire of many familiar things. Interesting characters.
Cons. At 88 minutes, the movie feels a little short. The characters are interesting enough to support several more scenes adding to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://mattrouge.com/2009/07/movie-review-observe-and-report-shows-us-how-hard-it-is-to-love-ourselves/</link>
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