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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>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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		<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>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>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2010/02/i-find-ten-years-have-got-behind-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></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>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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		<title>NBC&#8217;s Chuck Todd, the ultimate cynic</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/nbcs-chuck-todd-the-ultimate-cynic/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/nbcs-chuck-todd-the-ultimate-cynic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chuck Todd is the White House correspondent for NBC News. He is, frankly, one of the smartest political analysts on network TV—certainly he was among the best covering last year&#8217;s elections.
And yet&#8230; events this week make it clear that Chuck Todd has no faith in the American justice system, has no confidence in the democratic [...]]]></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>
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		<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 politics of torture, secrecy, and extortion</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/the-politics-of-torture-secrecy-and-extortion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 11:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1189</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent posts on Star Trek brought me more readers than anything else I&#8217;ve written in months, but unfortunately I don&#8217;t have anything new to say about that right now.
My posts about politics, by contrast, usually draw markedly less traffic than the ones about pop culture. Nevertheless, I enjoy the topic, and certainly don&#8217;t intend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attack dog Cheney</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/05/attack-dog-cheney/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 20:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dick Cheney&#8217;s been all over the mass media lately, defending the past administration&#8217;s record on torture in interviews on Sunday talk shows like &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; and on Fox News, and in speeches at friendly venues like the American Enterprise Institute. When media outlets aren&#8217;t talking to him they&#8217;re talking about him, in numerous &#8220;think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now that&#8217;s a presidential speech</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/now-thats-a-presidential-speech/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/now-thats-a-presidential-speech/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1064</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In fact, I&#8217;d go so far as to say that Obama&#8217;s address tonight may well have been the first presidential speech I&#8217;ve ever seen that genuinely lived up to the full meaning of the word &#8220;presidential.&#8221; The first time in my life we&#8217;ve had real, effective leadership in Washington. So this is what it looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Now THAT was a press conference</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/now-that-was-a-press-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/now-that-was-a-press-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 08:39:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.smartmemes.com/?p=1006</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a nice refreshing tingly feeling, isn&#8217;t it, to watch a president who clearly not only understands complex economic concepts, but is even capable of boiling them down into simplified versions for the press? (Even if he&#8217;s occasionally visibly frustrated by the need to do so.) Bush always came across as just barely in command [...]]]></description>
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