<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>John E. Riutta</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.jriutta.com/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.jriutta.com</link>
	<description>Essays &#124; Criticism &#124; Opinion &#124; Photography</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:14:20 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Breaking the Circle</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/breaking-the-circle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/breaking-the-circle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4847</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s pretty simple really. When people don’t have jobs they spend less. When they spend less, businesses sell less. If businesses sell less, they reduce how much they produce. If they are producing less, the don’t need as many people working for them so they lay off staff and don’t hire. And if they lay off staff and don’t hire, people don’t have jobs. If there was ever the perfect example of a vicious circle, you’d be hard pressed to find one more vicious than this.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/breaking-the-circle/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Justice Delayed</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/justice-delayed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/justice-delayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[speeding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Thursday, August 11th, 2011, I received a $251.00 citation for speeding. According to the citation, at 5:07 PM, I was doing 45 miles per hour in a 35 miles per hour zone along a major thoroughfare in southeast Portland, Oregon. The only problem is that at no time during the entirety of Thursday, August 11th, 2011 was I within twenty miles of the location indicated on the citation, nor was I there the day before that, or the day before that.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/justice-delayed/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Not What I Had In Mind</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/not-what-i-had-in-mind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/not-what-i-had-in-mind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 01:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[credit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[downgrade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rating]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers of this column will no doubt recall that I have on many previous occasions written about how I wish the United States could take a few tips from some of our European allies and become just a bit more like them. However whenever I’ve written such things I had in mind the food of France, the literature of England, or the cinema of Germany - not the credit rating of Belgium.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/08/not-what-i-had-in-mind/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Ancient Memories</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/ancient-memories/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/ancient-memories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 22:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[primitive]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stress]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4827</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, after reading and hearing far too much about the shenanigans in our nation’s capital, I found myself out behind our house with a knife in one hand and a stick in the other. Now before you think that I had picked up these items in preparation for a very poorly equipped insurrection, I should tell you that I was simply doing something that I hadn’t done for years. I was whittling on a stick.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/ancient-memories/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Reefer Madness</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/reefer-madness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/reefer-madness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:04:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cannabis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[law]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[legal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4822</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Through a strange twist of fate I recently found myself in the middle of a large gardening industry trade show where I, to my utter amazement, came face to face with the reality of one of our nation’s largest illegal cash crops: Cannabis]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/reefer-madness/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>It Just Doesn&#8217;t Matter</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/it-just-doesnt-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/it-just-doesnt-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:13:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ceiling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[debt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[essay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[movie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While many (including yours truly), in a fit of being fed-up with business, politics, or the world in general, often fall back upon the famous line from the 1976 movie “Network,” “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!” to express their feelings, I have recently switched to a different cinematic reference I order to better convey how I feel about the pig-headed debt ceiling impasse in which our alleged leaders in Washington now find themselves.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/it-just-doesnt-matter/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>A Different Way to Look At It</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/a-different-way-to-look-at-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/a-different-way-to-look-at-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 04:14:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[student]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teacher]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4811</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a basic logic to the idea that a person’s job performance should be judged by its outcome. However as a former classroom teacher, I know all too well just how different some key aspects of teaching are from just about every other job.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/a-different-way-to-look-at-it/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>We The People</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/we-the-people/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/we-the-people/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:56:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musings & Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[constitution]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[newspaper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preamble]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Every Independence Day, I like to stop and give thought to the words that helped give birth to our nation. Among the most important of these, as well as the most poetic, are of course those found in the Preamble to the Constitution.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/07/we-the-people/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Souvenirs From My Travels</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/06/souvenirs-from-my-travels/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/06/souvenirs-from-my-travels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 21:55:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Europe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4794</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As most travelers do, I brought back far more souvenirs from my recent trip to Europe than I expected I would. However in my case, most of these were not the usual t-shirts, ash trays, or little statues of famous landmarks; they were observations and ideas inspired by things I had seen, people with whom I had talked, experiences I had had, and even food I had eaten.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/06/souvenirs-from-my-travels/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
		<item>
		<title>Radio Silence</title>
		<link>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/06/radio-silence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/06/radio-silence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[From Under My Hat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[column]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[editorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[radio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[silence]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.jriutta.com/?p=4779</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Which is why I found it so curious that after returning from an extended trip out of the country during which I had neither the time either to watch television or listen to the radio that I found myself, upon getting into our family’s car at the airport, about to turn it on for the drive home - but I didn’t]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.jriutta.com/2011/06/radio-silence/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

