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		<title>When do we grow up?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/06/when-do-we-grow-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 19:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[adolescence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two hundred posts! I think that merits a little reflection and reminiscence.
This blog has been an ever-shifting beast since it started, neither fish nor fowl:  I&#8217;m as likely to be writing about pop culture one day as about politics the next. I think taken as a whole, though, the selection of subjects says something about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting a foot in the door of the Ivory Tower</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/04/getting-a-foot-in-the-door-of-the-ivory-tower/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:47:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2079</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As of this week, I can happily announce that I&#8217;ve accepted an offer from Indiana University&#8217;s School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) to pursue a Ph.D in Public Policy, complete with four years of guaranteed funding and a research assistantship. SPEA is the #3 public policy school in the nation according to the U.S. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On PIM software and life as a &#8220;Power User&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/on-pim-software-and-life-as-a-power-user/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Through many years and many computer systems, I&#8217;ve always been the sort of person who likes to tweak and customize my setup. I&#8217;m not happy just to make do with the programs that come preinstalled or shipped in shrinkwrap. I acknowledge a point of diminishing returns in this sort of thing, of course; I&#8217;ve never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I find ten years have got behind me</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/i-find-ten-years-have-got-behind-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[And no one told me when to run&#8230; that&#8217;s for damn sure.
New Year&#8217;s came and went without me writing a blog post. I was preoccupied with other things at the time, as detailed to some extent in my last couple of entries bookending my computer headaches. But I did make some observations that I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Back up and running again!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/back-up-and-running-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 04:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1831</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been quite a few weeks since my last post. That&#8217;s because during most of that span, whenever I&#8217;ve had time to sit down with my laptop, it&#8217;s been to work on restoring things from the catastrophic hard drive failure I suffered just before Christmas. I&#8217;m happy to say that as of now, I&#8217;ve finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irony so thick I could choke on it</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/irony-so-thick-i-could-choke-on-it/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/irony-so-thick-i-could-choke-on-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 21:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love my PowerBook. My computer is my life&#8230; or at least, it allows me to conduct it, and contains most of the relevant details of it, and connects me with the world beyond it. And using a Mac makes the whole process, really, downright fun sometimes.
Nevertheless, I admit to living dangerously where the safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The paradox of Shakespeare</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/the-paradox-of-shakespeare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 08:58:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Open sewers run through the streets. Disease is rampant, up to and including recurring outbreaks of the plague. Criminals are routinely castrated, disemboweled, and hacked to pieces in public executions. The rotting heads of political enemies are mounted on public gates. The bloody torture of animals is a popular form of entertainment. Wretched poverty is commonplace. Literacy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Laugh so you don&#8217;t weep (at the wingnut insanity)</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/laugh-so-you-dont-weep-at-the-wingnut-insanity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/laugh-so-you-dont-weep-at-the-wingnut-insanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:12:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the midst of the cesspool of paranoia and paralogia into which the ranting right is dragging so much of our political discourse these days&#8230; the latest iterations thereof being the Fox-driven hypocritical demagoguery about ACORN, and (even worse) the WSJ&#8217;s incredible suggestion that this(!) of all things somehow merits a special prosecutor&#8230;
&#8230;a reader comment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two films that do not restore your faith in humanity</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/two-films-that-do-not-restore-your-faith-in-humanity/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/two-films-that-do-not-restore-your-faith-in-humanity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 01:57:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[District 9]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Side note for my countless loyal fans (well, I haven&#8217;t counted &#8216;em, anyway):  today marks the one-year anniversary of my launch of this blog, and this is the 173rd post I&#8217;ve published in that time. Total cumulative visits to date are nearing 16,000. Not earth-shaking, but not a bad track record, I hope!&#8230;
&#8212;
Anyway. Today&#8217;s topic. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The slow, sad decline of the Chicago Reader</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-slow-sad-decline-of-the-chicago-reader/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-slow-sad-decline-of-the-chicago-reader/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Chicago Reader is a local institution. It dates back to 1971, one of the oldest free weekly papers in the country (preceded by the Village Voice and perhaps one or two others). And it&#8217;s been near and dear to my heart since I first moved to Chicago in the mid &#8217;80s. It always provided a [...]]]></description>
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