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	<title>Running After My Hat &#187; Politics</title>
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	<description>Ridiculous Pursuits, Solemn Matters</description>
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		<title>Book Review: War, by Sebastian Junger</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2010/08/book-review-war-by-sebastian-junger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Habitués of Running After My Hat know, I think, that I resist the intrusion of politics into my posts here. And although I&#8217;ve never been tested on this, I&#8217;m pretty sure that&#8217;s one area in which I would likely resort to editing (or outright banning) comments of certain kinds. If you&#8217;re after debate, even of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking Glass</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/07/looking-glass/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:53:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, a little something different: Usually, I start my Friday post by pulling something at random from the last seven days&#8217; selections at whiskey river. Then I go on to include a handful of poems, quotations, film clips, and/or songs to which the whiskey river snippet led me (by whatever inscrutable chain of thoughts). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Real January 20, 2009 Post</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/the-real-january-20-2009-post/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2009/01/the-real-january-20-2009-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, I sort of blew off the significance of the day as if I didn&#8217;t take it seriously. It&#8217;s not a joke. I&#8217;m trying real hard not to get too puffed up and all &#8220;Gee aren&#8217;t we Americans wonderful?!?&#8221; (As a column in today&#8217;s paper said, we don&#8217;t even know yet whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Birthday, Mr. Milton</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/happy-birthday-mr-milton/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/12/happy-birthday-mr-milton/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:58:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow &#8212; four hundred years, and (many) people still don&#8217;t even furrow their brows when you say the name &#8220;John Milton.&#8221; Most of us aspire to be remembered for one-fourth of that span, if that much. Today, Milton&#8217;s memory is honored (if not read, exactly) principally for his epic works, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rome, and the Day It Wasn&#8217;t Built In</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/rome-and-the-day-it-wasnt-built-in/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/rome-and-the-day-it-wasnt-built-in/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 17:55:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My head keeps saying This isn&#8217;t a political blog&#8230; this isn&#8217;t a political blog&#8230; My heart, though, can&#8217;t deny the huge chunk of me myself which is political&#8230; Short version: I have voted in ten Presidential elections. That&#8217;s 36 years. For nine of those elections, I have watched the returns on TV and read about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Keith Knight&#8217;s Mouth to God&#8217;s Ear, Please</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/from-keith-knights-mouth-to-gods-ear-please/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/11/from-keith-knights-mouth-to-gods-ear-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cartoonist Keith Knight is a regular contributor to my favorite monthly magazine, The Funny Times. To break the routine from his main comic strip, called The K Chronicles, he occasionally does a strip called &#8220;Life&#8217;s Little Victories.&#8221; He builds these strips from ideas submitted by readers &#8212; little one- or two-panel ideas describing the little [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Democracy 101: Great Apolitical PSA</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/democracy-101-great-apolitical-psa/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/democracy-101-great-apolitical-psa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:16:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Courtesy of Steven Spielberg and, well, pretty much everybody.]]></description>
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		<title>Has John Cusack Ever Made a Bad Movie?</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/has-john-cusack-ever-made-a-bad-movie/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/has-john-cusack-ever-made-a-bad-movie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kidding. Sort of. I mean, look, the guy&#8217;s made almost 60 movies, in a career spanning more than 25 years (per his Wikipedia filmography, at least). It&#8217;s pretty much impossible to make that many films and have nary a stinker in the bunch. Granted, I haven&#8217;t seen all or even most of those five dozen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fact, Fiction, and the Gray In-Between</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/fact-fiction-and-the-gray-in-between/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/10/fact-fiction-and-the-gray-in-between/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a college linguistics course, I first encountered the work of the Institute for Propaganda Analysis (IPA), a pre-World War II organization &#8212; we&#8217;d probably call it a think tank, nowadays &#8212; which (per Wikipedia): &#8230;formed with the general concern that increased amounts of propaganda were decreasing the public&#8217;s ability to develop their own critical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puzzlin&#8217; Evidence&#8230; Done Hardened in Your Heart</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/09/puzzlin-evidence-done-hardened-in-your-heart/</link>
		<comments>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2008/09/puzzlin-evidence-done-hardened-in-your-heart/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking Heads was one of those bands which I probably never would have picked up on &#8212; not on my own, anyhow. Predictably, in retrospect, it took a nudge from my brother. Or rather, a couple of different nudges. One of the later ones came in 1986, with the release of the musical film True [...]]]></description>
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