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	<title>Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon &#187; Change is Bad</title>
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		<title>This and That (New Year&#8217;s Edition)</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2012/01/03/this-and-that-new-years-edition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year to you! Here&#8217;s hoping 2012 brings us all peace and joy. As the traumatic year 2011 wound down in Japan, there were any number of notable music events. Rock veterans Moonriders ended their thirty-five year run with a rooftop concert in Shinjuku, holding the Beatles&#8217; legendary &#8220;Let It Be&#8221; rooftop performance in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sayonara, Dear Reader</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/17/sayonara-dear-reader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 01:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s time to move on, methinks. I&#8217;ve been doing this blog in one form or another for nearly seven years. It is possible, of course, that I&#8217;ll resume blogging at some point in the future, but for now it&#8217;s time to try other pastures. The original appeal to me in blogging was the opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Sans Guitar</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/15/music-sans-guitar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 03:15:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m feeling gorged in contemporary music that eschews the guitar. There is, for starters, the brilliant British charity holiday single by &#8220;Cage Against the Machine,&#8221; an all-star assemblage of performers gathered in one studio to record an epic cover version of John Cage&#8217;s 4&#8217;33&#8243; (you know, the one that is 4 minutes and 33 seconds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moneyball and the Limits of Managerial Science</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/01/moneyball-and-the-limits-of-managerial-science/</link>
		<comments>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/12/01/moneyball-and-the-limits-of-managerial-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 14:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally gotten around to reading Moneyball, Michael Lewis&#8217; now-classic 2003 portrait of Oakland A&#8217;s general manager Billy Beane. A decade ago Beane led the statistical revolution in contemporary Major League baseball, using computers, the Internet, and statistics to identify sources of talent that were undervalued by traditional baseball wisdom (meaning, primarily, the collective wisdom [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What They Don&#8217;t Tell You&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/07/09/what-they-dont-tell-you/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:32:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m now reading a book I&#8217;ve been curious about for more than a decade, Cornel West&#8217;s The American Evasion of Philosophy: A Genealogy of Pragmatism. I&#8217;m up to the chapter on John Dewey now and was interested to learn the history of the University of Chicago Lab School, where my son graduated from high school [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe It&#8217;s Not All Bad&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/06/11/maybe-its-not-all-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 23:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the most part, I accept the thesis &#8212; argued, for example, by Nicholas Carr (thanks for the link, Linda) &#8212; that the Internet is making us all stupid and asocial. On my visit to Japan a couple of months ago, a friend put her finger precisely on why reading text on a computer screen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All I Know is What I Read in the Papers</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/09/all-i-know-is-what-i-read-in-the-papers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an amusing editorial cartoon in the Chicago Tribune this past weekend by Scott Stantis. A mother sits at the breakfast table, reading the newspaper, and announces to her two children that the Post Office might stop delivering letters on Saturday. Her son, busy at his laptop, asks, &#8220;What&#8217;s a letter?&#8221; Her daughter, texting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Summer Memories&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/03/07/summer-memories/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:27:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I graduated from high school in the summer of 1979. It was a private prep academy that I attended on a full scholarship: we were on various forms of public assistance during my teens, and my mother could never have afforded tuition. Primarily because of my sense of humor, my classmates elected me as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He Keeps On Rollin&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/02/20/he-keeps-on-rollin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 13:52:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my freshman seminar on travel literature this past Thursday, we were discussing Jack Kerouac&#8217;s On the Road. We talked about the complexity of certain phrases or images in the book, how they take on multiple, often contradictory, meanings as the narrative progresses. For example, we looked at the meanings assigned to the Mississippi River, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>God Save the (Cultural) Village Green</title>
		<link>http://bourdaghs.com/blog/2010/01/31/god-save-the-cultural-village-green/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, as part of an ongoing project to rethink the works of novelist Natsume Soseki (1867-1916) in relation to the rise of modern regimes of property ownership, I wrote an article on him in relation to Mizuno Rentaro (1868-1949), chief architect of Japanese&#8217;s 1899 copyright law, a legal code that remained in [...]]]></description>
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