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		<title><![CDATA[The Right Thing Costs You]]></title>
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"If you're trying to decide what to do, and you only have two choices,
do the thing that's hardest," my pop used to tell me. "The right thing
is always the hardest thing."

Which is how Scott Pelley got canned off "60 Minutes," a television news...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4219687</link>
 
    <pubDate>Jun/05/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What's That Peeking in My Window? It's My Job]]></title>
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I used to work with a guy, and every morning, I would greet him the same
way.

"Howyadoin'?" I'd say.

"I'm here," he'd answer.

And so, we were. We were there for eight hours, day or night shift, with
two 15-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch....<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4214419</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/29/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[They're Barney Frank Hot Dogs...]]></title>
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Nobody expected Barney Frank to show up at the event. He came by because
it was in his district and he'd been in his district all day, and he had
time to come meet some people, and he'd donated a couple hundred bucks
to the event, and they'd ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4207344</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/22/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Digging to China]]></title>
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My ancestors, and by that I mean one or two generations ago, intersected
with Chinese culture in three ways.

One was Chinese food.

One was the Chinese laundry.

The last was fireworks.

My father was a tenement kid in a Massachusetts cotton ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4162039</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/15/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[What the Heart Wants]]></title>
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I come from a long line of medical surprise artists. The men in the Dion
family are winning fistfights into their early 60s. Somewhere between
the ages of 68 and 72, we go to St. Anne's Hospital. Shortly after that,
we go to Notre Dame Cemetery ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4092388</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/08/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[$4.39 a Gallon and a $6 Breakfast]]></title>
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The kid behind the counter, a kid with strong black dreads fountaining
out of the top of his visor, says "That'll be $6.42."

I give him my debit card.

I went to bed last night with $0.65 in my checking account, but this
column pays by the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4086239</link>
 
    <pubDate>May/01/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Vote for the Buttery Past]]></title>
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I was lucky enough to be born at the intersection of three great pancake
traditions. My mother made the American pancake from a box mix called
Bisquick, which can also be used to make biscuits and dumplings. My
mother made dumplings when she ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4079369</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/24/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[To JD Vance: Go Handle a Snake]]></title>
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Catholics don't like converts, not really. We don't trust converts.
Converts annoy us because no convert to Catholicism can resist finding a
real Catholic and explaining the Catholic Church to him.

Enter JD Vance, the latest convert to explain ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4072794</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/17/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Who Gets the Keys to the Car?]]></title>
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When I was younger, it was pretty easy to believe that only white
countries should have a nuclear bomb.

When you looked at the white countries, the guy (and it was always a
guy) in charge wore a nice suit, and he'd been to college, and there
...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4066209</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/10/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Nostalgia for a Slap]]></title>
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It's April 1, the day when guys my age finally stop writing 2025 on
their checks.

I only wrote two checks this month. One was to my dentist because he
still sends me a paper bill with a return envelope, and one was to a
company that sells me ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4059704</link>
 
    <pubDate>Apr/03/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Never Give Soccer an Even Break]]></title>
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Forty years ago, if you wanted to sound smarter than your stupid
buddies, you looked thoughtfully at the football game on the TV over the
bar, and you got a profound beer-related look in your eye.

"Ya know, soccer is probably going to be the ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4052274</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/27/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Prairie Fire]]></title>
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There are about 420 people in Arthur County, Nebraska, out in the
western part of the state, spread out over 715,152 square miles. The
county seat, and the county's only incorporated town, is a town called
Arthur, and about 130 people call that ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4045898</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/20/2026</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Pizza Empire]]></title>
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I counted 26 varieties of frozen pizza for sale in my local grocery
store last Tuesday.

Can you tell I'm semiretired?

But first, let's explain my methodology.

I wasn't in the biggest grocery store in this area. I was in a midsize
grocery ...<br /><br /><hr size="1" />]]></description>
		<link>https://www.arcamax.com/marcmunroedion/s-4039110</link>
 
    <pubDate>Mar/13/2026</pubDate>
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