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	<title>Bellicose Bumpkin &#187; bumpkin</title>
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	<description>Bellicose ... yes, but loved by all</description>
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		<title>Writing &#8230;. for money</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sitting in front of the TV like writing. Nothing unusual there. Sometimes I&#8217;m writing my Gazette column, my blog, documents for work, or what have you. Yesterday I was offered a paid gig writing technical columns about Linux. The site specializes in columns that make technology more accessible to the average user. Things like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Working toward a cable free future</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Comcast and Verizon, If you happen to stumble upon this post, let me tell you what I&#8217;m doing to put an end to the monthly cash grab you guys have been pulling on me for years. Here is a post that explains my pain. Basically &#8211; you are charging me WAY TOO MUCH for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mashpee Wampanoag casino prospects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve given my opinion on the prospects of a Mashpee Wampanoag casino and now I&#8217;d like to hear yours. The media has been slow to acknowledge that the tribal preference in the casino bill isn&#8217;t all it&#8217;s cracked up to be. Here is Commonwealth Magazine&#8217;s take from last week. A few days ago the Boston [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Snowshoeing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 03:08:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Winter sucks less &#8230; a lot less &#8230; if you have outdoor activities to do. That&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve found anyways. I was never into downhill skiing &#8211; and even if I was, it&#8217;s not something the average person can do very often. Skating is good but it is rare that you have good ice &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ConCom member needed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:55:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Middleboro Conservation Commission has an opening for a new member. One of my secret sources from the bowels of town government outlined the time commitment and responsibilities and some general information about the ConCom. Step up and help out It is an appointed position and one would become a voting member The person interested [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All about the Google Chromebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My column in this week&#8217;s Middleboro Gazette is about the Google Chromebook that Santa Claus brought to my son Zach this &#60;insert holiday of choice here&#62;. I love this thing. Now you should be asking yourself: &#8220;Why the heck would I want that when I can buy a cheap laptop for a little more?&#8221; To [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for improving schools</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/recipe-for-improving-schools/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:41:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Schools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of my readers sent me a Boston Globe article that I found to be fascinating. Harvard Professor Roland Fryer applied statistical analysis on successful schools to see why they worked, then applied the resulting 5 principals to failing schools in Texas with dramatic results in just one year. The magic recipe Frequent feedback to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roku thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I just bought a Roku 2 XD. It is a set top box that gives you content over the Internet &#8211; movies, TV, news, etc. There are a ton of channels &#8211; I&#8217;m still going through them all. I expect that there are some free gems &#8211; but to really make use of the device [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bumpkin year in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:33:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s Gazette offering is a review of the columns I wrote in the last year. Bumpkin&#8217;s Corner graces the Middleboro Gazette every two weeks &#8211; its mission is to alienate every resident of Middleboro and Lakeville. I&#8217;m well on track to accomplish that goal with my incite insight on town politics. Of all the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khan Academy</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/khan-academy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:09:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I wrote a three-part gripe about the Middleboro school system and ended up looking for some resources to supplement my kids education at home. We used Study Island &#8211; an online MCAS test prep site &#8211; which I found pretty good at test prep but not really great at teaching the material. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Clutch Cargo rockin&#8217; the house</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:06:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Gotta love the live human lips superimposed on the minimalist animation. Sadly I can remember watching old Clutch when I was very young. It was made in 1959 and probably primitive even by the 1966 standards &#8211; when I was watching it.]]></description>
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		<title>The moment that ended Romney&#8217;s candidacy</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/the-moment-that-ended-romneys-candidacy/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/the-moment-that-ended-romneys-candidacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Check out the look on Romney&#8217;s face when he challenges Perry to a $10,000 bet. His face has raging ***hole written all over it. This is one of those &#8220;Duke in tank&#8221; moments. It&#8217;s all over Mitt.]]></description>
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		<title>Globe takes a sober look at Tribal casinos</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/globe-takes-a-sober-look-at-tribal-casinos/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/globe-takes-a-sober-look-at-tribal-casinos/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 13:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I explained why I thought that the legalization of casinos in Massachusetts would not lead to a casino in Middleboro &#8211; tribal or commercial. There is 50 foot brick wall between the Mashpee Wampanoag and a tribal casino and that wall has Carcieri v. Salazar spray painted on it &#8212; just to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Geek alert &#8211; liking LXDE</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/geek-alert-liking-lxde/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:51:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[linux]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I love about Linux &#8211; is that I can change the look and feel to suit my needs by changing the desktop environment completely. Windows and Mac have no counterpart so most of you will have no idea what I&#8217;m talking about. Sure you can change themes and get your desktop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Angry bumpkin</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/angry-bumpkin/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/angry-bumpkin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 21:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Angry bumpkin will be back in full force this week in my Gazette column this coming Thursday. It will discuss the gutting of the grammar school music program and general failure of the schools to change their utterly unacceptable MCAS scores. Starting next year, the instrument music program will be done after school &#8211; a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>O&#8217; Billy Tree</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/o-billy-tree/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Nothing amuses me more than watching the hordes come out of the wood work for an issue that has zero effect on their daily lives like the kerfuffle over calling a Christmas Tree a Holiday Tree. You want to call it a Christmas tree &#8211; go ahead. You want to call it a Holiday tree [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to casino hell Milford and Foxboro</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/welcome-to-casino-hell-milford-and-foxboro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 14:33:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the casino law has passed, I have a feeling of Deja Vu watching various towns react to the prospect of having a giant development dropped on them. And I pity them. When faced with the prospect of a something that has the potential to radically alter the character of the town, people get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scrotus Bloats never fails to annoy</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/scrotus-bloats-never-fails-to-annoy/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/scrotus-bloats-never-fails-to-annoy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 20:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We use Lotus Notes at work for mail, calendaring, and other applications. While it may have some non-apparent-to-me value as an application platform, as an email platform it leaves a lot to be desired. My mail quota has apparently been exceeded &#8211; leaving me able to receive new emails but not delete old ones to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UU Kool-Aid</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/uu-kool-aid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reminder that Sixteen Shillings is playing in Braintree on Saturday 12/3 My column in this week&#8217;s Gazette discusses the surprisingly positive experience I&#8217;ve had in the Universalist Unitarian church since I started attending earlier this year.]]></description>
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		<title>Braintree gig &#8211; 12/3</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/braintree-gig-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 19:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen Shillings will be this weekend in Braintree. Loyal Order of Moose Lodges 175 Howard St, Braintree, MA 02184-1151 8:30 until whenever Sixteen Shillings is myself(guitar/vocals) and Rob Dragunas(mandolin/vocals) playing a wide range of stuff]]></description>
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		<title>Gig in Braintree &#8211; 12/3</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/gig-in-braintree-123/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[My music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be playing at in Braintree this Saturday from 8:30 &#8211; 12:30 Loyal Order of Moose Lodges 175 Howard St, Braintree, MA 02184-1151 Also see the Page: Facebook Event Page]]></description>
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		<title>New jewelry store in the &#8216;Boro</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/new-jewelry-store-in-the-boro/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/new-jewelry-store-in-the-boro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:11:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Got this email today. I think the new store is in the former Holly Berries across from Cafe Milano: Greetings to all you ladies who love jewelry (and spouses who love to buy for your special one) ~ Look no further than Gregory Scot Jewelers on Center St. in downtown Middleboro. This fabulous store is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mass casinos and Middleboro</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/mass-casinos-and-middleboro/</link>
		<comments>http://nemasket.net/mass-casinos-and-middleboro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 18:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro casino]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Now that the Massachusetts State Legislature has passed a bill for expanded mathematical stupidity gambling, I&#8217;ve decided to comment on what that means for the prospects of a casino in Middleboro. The short answer is &#8211; the chances are still slim. I&#8217;m sure there are a few diehards out there cheering the decision to legalize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger Waters talks Occupy</title>
		<link>http://nemasket.net/roger-waters-talks-occupy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 18:53:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A refreshingly simple, concise, clear statement on Occupy Wall Street from musical genius Roger Waters. I do not understand how this movement is being stratified by the right as a liberal movement. His production of Pink Floyd&#8217;s The Wall is swinging through the states for a second pass. GO]]></description>
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		<title>Remember the G&amp;E</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 03:51:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>bumpkin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Middleboro]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago there was a lot of uproar about the Middleboro G&#038;E. The din has died down and the populace gone back to sleep. This Tuesday at 7:30 at the G&#038;E office building &#8211; 32 South Main Street. This is an open meeting that will discuss the dollars and sense behind the bills [...]]]></description>
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