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		<title>Wow, how viral is this?</title>
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		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=416</link>
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		<title>Goodbye fun, hello &#8230;</title>
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My son Ethan just graduated from college. I&#8217;m immensely proud of him, though I&#8217;ve been that since the nurse at St. Luke&#8217;s Hospital handed him to me, wrapped in a soft blanket and sporting the hair of Mitt Romney (it later turned blonde).
I must say I love weddings and graduations. Weddings rarely fail to raise [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=395</link>
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		<title>Must be the 30-Year Itch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 31 Cathy and I will celebrate 29 years of marriage. It&#8217;s an event I&#8217;m approaching uneasily.
On the one hand, I want to rub the fact in the face of everyone I meet. 
I have been married nearly three decades! 
Do you have any idea what that takes? 
Is that not a titanic achievement?!
I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=381</link>
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		<title>Up and down on the farm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My son and I spent the weekend on an Ontario farm where he got to escape the final throes of college and I got to escape suburban life. The weekend was a weird and wonderful mix of calm and excitement; work and relaxation&#8211;just as you might expect farm life to be:
* We worked around the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=373</link>
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		<title>First Quarter 2009 report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear personal shareholders, 
With Q1 09 nearly gone now is a good time to report progress on New Year&#8217;s Resolutions:
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1) Check out weird noise car brakes are making.
2) Lose 10 pounds. (Dropped lazy cat off at pound).
3) Dump Lehman stock.
4) Clean golf clubs. 
5) Deal with all those &#8216;outstanding&#8217; warrants.
6) Water dying fig tree in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=369</link>
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		<title>And the Pulitzer goes to &#8230; Yosemite Sam?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Right on the heels of Jon Stewart&#8217;s spectacular evisceration of CNBC&#8217;s Jim Cramer, CBS&#8217; 60 Minutes scores an incredible &#8220;get&#8221;&#8211;an interview with Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.
This should be good, right? Um, no. CBS Correspondent Scott Pelley makes Jon Stewart look like Lowell Bergman. Half of Pelley&#8217;s interview consists of sophomoric questions like: When will it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=353</link>
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		<title>Trolls and snarks and the newest journalism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The trolls delighted in The (Allentown, PA) Morning Call newspaper story about the local United Way falling short of its fundraising goal. Moments after the on-line version of the story was posted, their comments poured in. From them we learned that United Way is a hopelessly corrupt system staffed by loafers and supported by idiots. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=342</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t work Harder, work Smarter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of all the facile, empty management sayings ever uttered, that&#8217;s my favorite: don&#8217;t work harder, work smarter.
A colleague in an overworked newsroom once heard that line and muttered &#8220;great, now they&#8217;re asking me to alter my DNA, too?&#8221;
Nick Kristof&#8217;s column in today&#8217;s New York Times actually describes a context in which that saying really means [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=334</link>
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		<title>A statesman for the Age, and for the ages</title>
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		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=326</link>
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		<title>After the Agony, there is Ecstasy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A game that began with a deluge has washed away an epic drought.
Tyler Kepner
New York Times, October 29, 2008
In 1968 my family moved from southern Indiana to South Jersey, and there, 16 miles from Philadelphia, was born my affinity for Philly sports teams.
Twelve years later, in the same year I married my wife, I would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jerryscharf.com/?p=314</link>
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