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	<title>Big Kid:Bigger City</title>
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		<title>People who tell you they&#8217;re from the &#8216;beer community&#8217; mostly suck.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not sure why this is the post that brings me back to blogging, but good gravy, it&#8217;s been bugging me like CRAZY. Here&#8217;s the deal. I love beer. Not that crappy Bud/Miller/Coors mostly rice adjunct stuff that 90% of the country thinks of when they hear the word beer, but BEER. I mean real [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2011/06/17/people-who-tell-you-theyre-from-the-beer-community-mostly-suck/</link>
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		<title>The product of a four month blogging break.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I think recently joining Twitter has stirred my need to apparently put my thoughts on the internet. Shortly after my last post, my grandpa fell ill.  My dad called me at work and told me that the doctors weren&#8217;t giving my grandpa much time.  A day, a week, they couldn&#8217;t say for sure, but it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2010/02/10/the-product-of-a-four-month-blogging-break/</link>
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		<title>Bringing the 2016 Olympics to Chicago</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EDIT: Obviously this was written prior to the first-round elimination of Chicago. Maybe I&#8217;m a bad Chicagoan (as in someone that actually lives within the boundaries of the city of Chicago and has been living here for going on five years), but I&#8217;m really not that excited about the city possibly hosting the 2016 Olympic [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2009/10/02/bringing-the-2016-olympics-to-chicago/</link>
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		<title>Softball and race collide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been playing rec league softball in the city for a while.  I&#8217;ve met amazing people throughout the spring, summer, and fall seasons over the past four years, including my wife.  I&#8217;ve played all over the north side of Chicago with great people from all kinds of backgrounds.  The leagues, though, are mostly white and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2009/08/10/softball-and-race-collide/</link>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Dark Lord Day 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, this past weekend, my friend Jud and I packed up our tents, fishing poles, and wives and decided to make our virgin trip to the annual beer release day know as Dark Lord Day, and followed it up with a quick overnight camp.  I had been reading about DLD 2008 and the crazy lines [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2009/04/27/lessons-learned-from-dark-lord-day-2009/</link>
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		<title>The War Against Christian&#8230;&#8230;.                  (America)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine my surprise this week when I finally realized that the war has started.  I come back from a weekend of celebration and worship to find that there is a war raging and the target is Christianity. fox news shows the truth Wait&#8230; that&#8217;s Christian America.  The war is against Christian America. Nevermind.  I&#8217;ve just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2009/04/14/the-war-against-christian-america/</link>
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		<title>An Appreciation of Beer: Two Hearted Ale</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I didn&#8217;t have an alcoholic drink until I was 21.  It&#8217;s the kind of thing that makes conversations all awkward when I mention it out loud &#8211; especially when I&#8217;m with my church friends.  I know some people find it hard to believe I would abstain until the government told me I was old enough, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2009/02/25/an-appreciation-of-beer-two-hearted-ale/</link>
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		<title>The Year That Was</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It seems like most people have some type of yearly reflection around this time.  People start throwing out &#8220;best of&#8221; and &#8220;worst of&#8221; lists like their opinions should have some kind of authority.  Ignoring subjectivity completely, readers immediately react to these lists with enough vitriol to float a boat.  My solution?  Make lists that I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2009/01/07/the-year-that-was/</link>
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		<title>The Coming Downfall of Mayor Richard M. Daley</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I moved to Chicago, I knew very little of the current politics that ran the city.  I had heard the term alderman but had no clue that it meant &#8220;overpaid city councilperson.&#8221;  I knew some of the history of Chicago politics and the name Daley was recognizable.  It was the stuff that barely registers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2008/12/03/the-coming-downfall-of-mayor-richard-m-daley/</link>
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		<title>An Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dear President-Elect Obama, First of all, SWEET PARTY in Grant Park the other night.  It was amazing.  I kept telling my friends &#8211; there&#8217;s no way this guy can pull off this shindig.  You proved me wrong, sir.  The pizza was so-so and hella expensive, but it&#8217;s cool.  I was hoping for an open bar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://rmfo-blogs.com/dave/2008/11/07/an-open-letter-to-president-elect-barack-obama/</link>
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