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	<title>dan oshinsky dot com</title>
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	<description>A blog about journalism. And my mother.</description>
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		<title>What Journalists Can Learn From Abraham Lincoln.</title>
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It's been a while since my last installment of 'What Journalists Can Learn From' -- it's the first in this Jewish new year, actually -- but I've just finished reading Doris Kearns Goodwin's excellent "Team of Rivals," and I saw more than a few lessons in Abe Lincoln's words. Three especially pertinent thoughts for journalists:
Pick [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/03/03/what-journalists-can-learn-from-abraham-lincoln/</link>
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		<title>A Porker&#8217;s Last Goodbye.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this week, my boss called me into her office to talk about a story I wrote last week about chicken fried bacon and the fried foods on sale at the San Antonio Rodeo. She told me that she liked my piece, but she wanted to see more perspectives. She wanted a fresh angle on [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/02/16/a-porkers-last-goodbye/</link>
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		<title>The Blog Post That May Make Me The Butt of Your Jokes.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last 10 days, there has been something wrong with me. I have been slightly more irritable than usual. I've been twitchy at work. I've gone through long spells when my mind appears to be in a very different place.
Today, I believe I've discovered the problem.
I may be bleeding out of my anus.
Now, this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/02/15/the-blog-post-that-may-make-me-the-butt-of-your-jokes/</link>
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		<title>When Voicemail Accidentally Serves as a Time Capsule.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first thing I heard was a weird scratching on the phone, like aluminum foil was being rubbed against the receiver. Then I heard my mother's voice, frantic.
"I must have just missed your call," she said. This was last Thursday.
But I didn't call, I told her.
That didn't stop her. "No, Dan," she said. "I just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/02/01/when-voice-mail-accidentally-serves-as-a-time-capsule/</link>
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		<title>Wait, You People Still Speak to Each Other?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven't been home to D.C. since I left for south Texas just over seven months ago. I keep up with some home friends via phone, and I caught up with a few earlier this month out in L.A. But for a good chunk of news and gossip from home, I rely on an email [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/01/25/wait-you-people-still-speak-to-each-other/</link>
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		<title>A Eureka! Moment: Why I Only Have Good Ideas When Tiny Scraps of Paper Are Around.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The revelation came to me in the moments before sleep, and I went searching for something to scribble it down on. All I could find was a small envelope on my kitchen table.
But what else could I be expected to write on in such a moment?
What hit me last night, what pulled me out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/01/19/a-eureka-moment-why-i-only-have-good-ideas-when-tiny-scraps-of-paper-are-around/</link>
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		<title>Dear Fans: Please Stop Storming the Court After Inconsequential Wins.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I'm sorry, because this doesn't concern either journalism or my mother (1), but this is too much.
At right, delirious Michigan fans are celebrating a win that happened just this afternoon over the University of Connecticut Huskies. Most years, a win over UConn would be a huge deal. But not this year.
This year, UConn's best win [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/01/17/dear-fans-please-stop-storming-the-court-after-inconsequential-wins/</link>
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		<title>My Generation is Totally Screwed, and It&#8217;s All the iPhone&#8217;s Fault.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a very good chance that my generation is totally screwed.
Certain jobs are disappearing, and that's a shame. It's a shame that copy editors at newspapers are being fired. It's a shame that accountants are being replaced by inexpensive computer software. It's a shame that elevator operators are out of jobs (and have been [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/01/13/my-generation-is-totally-screwed-and-its-all-the-iphones-fault/</link>
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		<title>Airport Questions.</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Do you know which way your gate is?"
I look up at the airline employee who just checked me in. It's 4:52 a.m. at San Antonio Interational Airport.
"Excuse me?"
She repeats the question.
I look right. There is a security checkpoint over there.
I look left. About 10 feet away, there is a blank, white wall. There are no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2010/01/09/airport-questions/</link>
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		<title>My Grandson, The Chipotle Apprentice.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of note: What follows is a work of original blog fiction. Only the business card printed at right is real. (Also: Chipotle does make quesadillas; they're just on the secret menu.)

My grandson is named Charlie.
I love him very much.
He is 22 years old.
He has a degree in fine arts from SUNY-Schenectety, the Harvard of east [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://danoshinsky.com/2009/12/20/my-grandson-the-chipotle-apprentice/</link>
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