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		<title>When do we grow up?</title>
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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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		<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>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>Sherlock Holmes: a complete chronology</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/03/sherlock-holmes-a-complete-chronology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:14:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the later years [part II]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-later-years-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 07:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At this point we have very nearly completed our chronology of the Sherlock Holmes Canon. We have spanned his entire career, from his earliest investigations through his disappearance and return to his retirement and beyond. We have determined along the way that his colleague and biographer Dr. Watson married twice, once in 1888 (to Mary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the later years [part I]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-later-years-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have reached the midway point of our chronological project, having dated and arranged all the cases of Sherlock Holmes prior to his apparent death in the spring of 1891. The time has come to turn our attention to the later part of his career. Thirty-two adventures of Holmes (novels aside) were published between 1903 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the early years [part II]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:10:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the endeavor to derive a comprehensive Sherlock Holmes chronology, we have at the outset resolved (to my satisfaction, at any rate) the question of the number of Watson&#8217;s marriages through a judicious application of Occam&#8217;s Razor. This has allowed us to set up a framework that covers the cases published up through the Great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes: the early years [part I]</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-the-early-years-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1875</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, the project is this: to construct a reliable, chronological reading order for the Sherlock Holmes canon, as written by Dr. Watson. The goal is clear: to glean a more complete and robust sense of the life of the Great Detective, and of his friend and colleague, than afforded by any single tale. The methodology [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sherlock Holmes:  a chronological Canon</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-a-chronological-canon/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/sherlock-holmes-a-chronological-canon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:26:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sherlock Holmes has been much in the public eye of late, thanks to the big-budget Hollywood movie starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law. (And it&#8217;s an enjoyable picture; if the overall style is a bit too frenetic and overblown, and a few obvious liberties are taken with the source material, still the filmmakers at [...]]]></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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		<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>Reflections on Robert McNamara</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/reflections-on-robert-mcnamara/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 22:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a prominent public figure, Robert McNamara was before my time. He had stepped down as Secretary of Defense well before I was even born. But the man who died Monday had a more profound influence on our country&#8217;s politics and policy than any number of more recent, more familiar, and more famous names.
McNamara was [...]]]></description>
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