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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; conservatism</title>
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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>
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		<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>Health care and disinformation</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/12/health-care-and-disinformation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:03:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1806</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday&#8217;s inbox contained a political e-mail message forwarded by my girlfriend&#8217;s parents. They&#8217;re not especially political people; their sensibilities (to the extent they&#8217;ll even discuss them) tend toward a somewhat mushy moderate conservatism, the kind of folks who instinctively vote Republican, even though the party&#8217;s center of gravity has moved far away from them. Indeed, [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1731</guid>
		<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>The best-ever response to anti-government zealots</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-best-ever-response-to-anti-government-zealots/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-best-ever-response-to-anti-government-zealots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have no idea who the original author of this piece is. It&#8217;s flying all over the internet, though, so presumably I&#8217;m not the only one who thinks it&#8217;s a thing of beauty that deserves to be shared. Next time you run across some halfwit opposing health insurance reform (or anything else) because he insists [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The country we live in</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/08/the-country-we-live-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 00:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1552</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a quickie here. I had to share DougJ&#8217;s wonderfully pithy comparison/contrast at Balloon Juice between last week&#8217;s news (the Henry Louis Gates incident) and this week&#8217;s news (the angry teabaggers):
When someone talks back to a cop in his own house, that’s disorderly conduct.
When people make death threats and start fights in public, that’s exercising their First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The politics of paranoia and paralogia</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-paranoia-and-paralogia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 02:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1336</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where did we leave off? 
I was writing about the difficulty of finding something meaningful to say in the wake of all the full-time, professional political bloggers out there. Too often I feel like I&#8217;m just offering a synthesis of what others have said, rather than any new insight.
Perhaps I&#8217;m holding myself to an arbitrarily high [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Specter of change</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/the-specter-of-change/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My immediate reaction yesterday when I heard the news report that Sen. Arlen Specter had changed his party affiliation from (R) to (D):  a shouted &#8220;Yes!&#8221; and a fist pump. 
Beyond that, almost everything has already been said in the media whirlwind of the last 24 hours, but I thought I&#8217;d share a little personal perspective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resurgent populist sentiment, and the reactionary response</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/resurgent-populist-sentiment-and-the-reactionary-response/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/resurgent-populist-sentiment-and-the-reactionary-response/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1168</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t necessarily buy the notion that public discontent with the recent AIG retention bonuses, or with Wall Street&#8217;s role in the economic meltdown overall, is a signpost of resurgent populist feeling. (It takes more than fleeting moods to swing public sentiment in lasting ways.) Nevertheless, a lot of people apparently do, across the political [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Straining at gnats, swallowing camels</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/straining-at-gnats-swallowing-camels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/straining-at-gnats-swallowing-camels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:56:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of interesting political commentary going on this past week (just check out the industrious writers on my blogroll), but I admit that I haven&#8217;t felt inspired to chime in on it. Sometimes the weight of public affairs just seems overwhelming, and it helps to step back and focus on personal matters. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The reactions to WATCHMEN: a study in contrasts</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/the-reactions-to-watchmen-a-study-in-contrasts/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/03/the-reactions-to-watchmen-a-study-in-contrasts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:09:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reviews of the movie Watchmen have been mixed: 65% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, for instance, and 56% positive on Metacritic. That&#8217;s not as uniformly negative as the secondhand buzz might indicate, but this is perhaps because the most prominent &#8220;establishment media&#8221; reviews have leaned toward the negative side:  e.g., Anthony Lane&#8217;s in The New Yorker, [...]]]></description>
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