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		<title>When Is A Cave Not A Cave? (new fiction)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jul 2011 20:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My wife and I had already completed our list of the more typical adventures: Bungee jumping, white-water rafting, skydiving, mountain climbing, even diving with Great White sharks. But, with each new adventure, the adrenalin rush seemed a little less intense. So, when we got to the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park for our latest adventure vacation, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=156&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take me out of this ballgame (new fiction)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 12:33:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Why is it so important that I pretend to be a Yankee fan, Sue?&#8221; I said, trying not to be heard above the din at Yankee stadium. “What difference does it make?” &#8220;You can’t pretend!&#8221; Sue hissed at me. “Don’t you dare tell anyone in my family that you’re pretending. I don’t want to give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=144&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Did I Get To Be a Liberal, Lefty, Commie, Pinko In a Conservative America? (Chapter 3)</title>
		<link>http://soapboxjunkie.net/2010/12/10/how-did-i-get-to-be-a-liberal-lefty-commie-pinko-in-a-conservative-america-chapter-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:57:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul H. Hebner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the third chapter of my saga and I still haven’t left the 1970s. That was when a plethora (not a word I use often) of world events, societal upheavals, and personal experiences coalesced into a single irresistible force, urging me inexorably leftward. (Note: most of the sentences that follow will be simpler and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=123&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Did I Get To Be a Liberal, Lefty, Commie, Pinko In a Conservative America? (Chapter 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our previous episode, our impressionable young protagonist was a high school student in the early seventies. This was not only a time of great social and political upheaval, it was also a time during which the effects of that turmoil split American society, more starkly than at any time since the Civil War, into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=105&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Did I Get To Be a Liberal, Lefty, Commie, Pinko In a Conservative America? (Chapter 1)</title>
		<link>http://soapboxjunkie.net/2010/10/24/how-did-i-get-to-be-a-liberal-lefty-commie-pinko-in-a-conservative-america-chapter-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a running political discussion on Facebook with a friend, Don, who&#8217;s about as far from my point of view as it&#8217;s possible to be. He&#8217;s ultra-conservative, and I&#8217;m&#8230;well&#8230;not. In fact, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever met anyone whose political views are as far left as mine. The remarkable thing about our discussions is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=52&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brevity Is the Soul of&#8230;What?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 19:45:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul H. Hebner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was transferred from www.hebner.org This is an addendum to my previous post, in which I gave President Abraham Lincoln most of the credit for the spare writing style used today in Twitter posts (I’ll never get used to calling them “tweets.”) and phone text messages. Lincoln is as much a legend now for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=49&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Twitter Style of President Abraham Lincoln</title>
		<link>http://soapboxjunkie.net/2010/06/22/the-twitter-style-of-president-abraham-lincoln/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul H. Hebner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was transferred from www.hebner.org I’m not a big fan of Twitter or Facebook, principally because of the way most people use it. I have no interest in accessing a global communication platform to read about visits to Starbuck’s or Victoria’s Secret. Nor do I have any interest in responding to such missives. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=47&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can words Change the World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post was transferred from www.hebner.org Some time ago, I was teaching a business writing skills class in New York City. I typically begin my classes talking about the power of language and good writing. I tell my students that words can change more than perceptions and behavior. They can change more than entertain and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=soapboxjunkie.net&amp;blog=9100121&amp;post=45&amp;subd=paulhebner&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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