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	<title>Narrating the Aberration.</title>
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	<description>The answer to &#039;too much debt&#039; cannot be &#039;more debt&#039;.</description>
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		<title>Coming back &#8216;online&#8217;&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2012/01/10/coming-back-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:08:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=662</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Five months since my last blog. Forgive me, reader, for I have been preoccupied. I was conducting a &#8216;dialogue&#8217; with the Department of Finance with respect to the &#8216;Offset Debt&#8217; proposal (Link) and I decided to keep &#8220;shtum&#8221; for fear of upsetting the tender sensibilities of those I encountered therein. I will give an account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grandmaster level chess</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/07/14/grandmaster-level-chess/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/07/14/grandmaster-level-chess/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:36:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics/Finance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=658</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In chess, the quality that separates the &#8216;grandmaster&#8217; from the &#8216;talented amateur&#8217; is the number of moves ahead that each player can mentally keep in mind and manipulate. Something similar is said to be true for champion tennis and snooker players. I am not one for conspiracy theories as experience has to date shown me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DD,SS.</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/03/12/ddss/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/03/12/ddss/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:13:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=653</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings and apologies for the long silence. It was engendered by a preoccupation with other delusions and a generalized despair at the &#8220;state o&#8217; chassis&#8221;. My congratulations to EK and the gang on an interesting victory. EGilmore shot himself badly in the foot at the start of the campaign with his arrogance toward the electorate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good News?</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/27/good-news/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/27/good-news/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 22:31:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arabia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Freedom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tunisia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=650</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is little new under the Sun and precious little of that is good news but the uprisings in the Middle East are both. They are novel in that they genuinely seem to be popular uprisings unmediated by elites or provocateurs. They are good news for those of us who believe liberty and self-determination. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Farces</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/23/more-farces/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/23/more-farces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 18:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FinanceBill]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GeneralElection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GreenParty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=648</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is 15 months ago since the GreenParty held a Special Convention on PfG/NAMA. I told that Convention that I did not believe that any of the lovely promises offered to them as the payoff for sustaining FF in power and agreeing to NAMA would be delivered, let alone the fact that they were not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qui bono?</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/22/qui-bono-2/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/22/qui-bono-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 17:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cowen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taoiseach]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once again I was wrong because I did not think &#8216;things&#8217; could get any stranger. Mr. Cowen has resigned as leader of FF but intends to remain as a caretaker Taoiseach, all the while citing the benefit of the Nation principally and his party secondarily as the intended beneficiaries of his actions. But who can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Wish</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/18/new-years-wish/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2011/01/18/new-years-wish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 19:24:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Greetings and a happy New Year. In an Irish context, the &#8216;and prosperous&#8217; addition to the traditional salutation is inappropriate. I have been shocked at the number of people who have contradicted or corrected me when I used the full traditional form of the greeting. Clearly, a very sombre mood has settled over the country [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Status Update</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/11/30/status-update/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/11/30/status-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 19:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=627</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The reader will be aware that up until now I could be described as being, emotionally, somewhere between &#8216;pissed off&#8217; and &#8216;very, very angry&#8217;. I have now moved on to being just plain scared. All of Europe&#8217;s political elite are living  in a &#8216;Wonderland&#8217; where they believe they can defy economic gravity by printing fiat-money [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Culture &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/11/26/political-culture-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/11/26/political-culture-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:09:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cognitive dissonance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hypocrisy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[responsibility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicide]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=622</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was at a meeting of political &#8216;types&#8217;, from the Government side of the fence, a short while ago. In the general discussion that preceded the &#8216; business&#8217; of the meeting, I brought up the subject of the dramatic rise in the suicide rate and, in particular, the awful murder/suicide in Cork that occurred recently. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Culture</title>
		<link>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/11/25/political-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://doohan.org/blog/2010/11/25/political-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 10:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Arthur</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics/Law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FF]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ireland]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://doohan.org/blog/?p=621</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a fascinating article in the FT today wherein the truly hypocritical nature of the political culture of Ireland and its dominant party, Fianna Fail, is laid bare, almost accidentally. It is worth a read but two quotes stand out. “I voted for Fianna Fáil in the past simply because I was getting favours [...]]]></description>
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