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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2109</guid>
		<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>The last of Lost</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/the-last-of-lost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 May 2010 10:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Pop Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carlton Cuse]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2167</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Up front: I liked it.
Sunday&#8217;s final episode of Lost, that is&#8230; a show I&#8217;ve been watching with fascination for five years now. (No, not six&#8230; I missed S1 when it aired, but got hooked by the DVDs.)
That&#8217;s not to say that I found it completely satisfying, especially on an intellectual level. But clearly the show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Brooks, daring upholder of shallow conventional wisdom</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/david-brooks-daring-upholder-of-shallow-conventional-wisdom/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 09:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Electoral]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[David Brooks, throughout his long history as a pundit, consistently seems to love drawing sweeping generalizations from just a handful of anecdotal examples. Sometimes even just one. In his latest column, he&#8217;s resorted to using an imaginary one.
Brooks retells the fable of the ant and the grasshopper through an imaginary middle-American voter he calls &#8220;Ben.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ridley, Russell, and Robin Hood</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/ridley-russell-and-robin-hood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 13:01:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2145</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The critical reaction to the new movie Robin Hood, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe in the title role, has been decidedly mixed. It averages a mere 45% from critics compiled on RottenTomatoes.com, many of whom seem to have been cribbing from the same notes. They complain of the movie&#8217;s 140-minute length (apparently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama&#8217;s Supreme Court: still drifting to the right</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/obamas-supreme-court-still-drifting-to-the-right/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why? Why does a presidential administration that came into office on the diligent labor and fervent hopes of progressives continue to send progressives the message that it doesn&#8217;t need them, indeed that it doesn&#8217;t even care what they think, that their principles and passions are nothing more than chips to be bargained away as evidence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s like Congress is being tested</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/05/its-like-congress-is-being-tested/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 May 2010 16:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2095</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick observation prompted by events in recent weeks. These events are unrelated, yet they form a pattern. Together, they put Washington on the hot seat and shine a spotlight on its (questionable) ability to act in the public interest.
Specifically, if&#8230;
&#8230;despite an offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico so devastating that it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Orwellian or Kafkaesque? I can&#8217;t decide.</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/04/orwellian-or-kafkaesque-i-cant-decide/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/04/orwellian-or-kafkaesque-i-cant-decide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=2089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Either way, it&#8217;s definitely disturbing, and (a term I don&#8217;t often use) un-American.
What is? The fact that the Obama White House has ordered the CIA to assassinate an American citizen, wherever and whenever he may be found. A man who&#8217;s been charged with no crime, much less convicted of one.
The ostensible reason? &#8220;Terrorism,&#8221; of course.
That [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/04/getting-a-foot-in-the-door-of-the-ivory-tower/#comments</comments>
		<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>Health care is making me sick</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/health-care-is-making-me-sick/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/health-care-is-making-me-sick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:44:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Policy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As the health care reform debate enters what appears to be the home stretch (albeit not for the first time), what Washington is offering us (the citizenry) boils down to a choice between bad and worse. The legislation now under consideration, both the Senate bill and the slight variation on same presented as &#8220;Obama&#8217;s bill,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: a complete chronology</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/sherlock-holmes-a-complete-chronology/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/sherlock-holmes-a-complete-chronology/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1990</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[At last, the grand finale! Over the course of several previous installments (all linked below), diligent effort and careful reasoning have allowed us to structure a timeline of all 60 cases in the Sherlock Holmes canon, to a degree of precision of at least a month or season and a likely year even for the [...]]]></description>
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