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		<title>Happy Father&#x2019;s Day Shoot-Out: Newspaper, Gun Store Team Up for Father of the Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:24:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Crepeau</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Each year, as Father&#8217;s Day approaches, a local gun store and shooting range, with two convenient locations, runs half- and full-page ads urging Florida families to give Dad a gun for Father&#8217;s Day.

My guess is some of you have never realized, or even contemplated, what a perfect keepsake a gun would make for dear ol&#8217; [...]<br/>
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		<title>Rewarding Lessons From College Sports</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:25:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Crepeau</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The story began with this: &#8220;The NCAA placed Alabama&#8217;s football program and 15 other of the school&#8217;s athletic teams on three years&#8217; probation for major violations due to misuse of free textbooks …&#8221;

Misuse of free textbooks? What could that mean? Were the players caught reading them? Or did they just claim to have read them? [...]<br/>
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		<title>Judge Sotomayor&#x2019;s Grand Slam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 20:43:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Richard C. Crepeau</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama&#8217;s nominee to the Supreme Court, attracted my attention in the spring of 1995 when she made the decision that ended the suicidal baseball strike that prevented a World Series in 1994 and threatened to destroy the 1995 baseball season.

Not only is Judge Sotomayor an excellent choice for the Supreme [...]<br/>
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		<title>&#x201c;Buffy&#x201d; to Rise Again? And &#x201c;Dollhouse&#x201d; Goes Down Under and Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 20:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine C.</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[From the files of What Were They Thinking comes news that &#8220;Buffy, the Vampire Slayer&#8221; may appear again on movie screens, but without Joss Whedon at the helm and without the television series&#8217; favorite characters. Borys Kit at The Hollywood Reporter writes:

&#8220;Buffy&#8221; creator Joss Whedon isn&#8217;t involved and it&#8217;s not set up at a studio, [...]<br/>
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		<title>As He Steps Out From Behind the Curtain, We Should All Be Listening to David Simon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:17:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bernie</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[David Simon, creator of &#8220;The Wire,&#8221; has been making the rounds lately &#8212; and I couldn&#8217;t be more pleased.

While I am eagerly awaiting his new TV series set in post-Katrina New Orleans (appearing on HBO in 2010 &#8211; already re-upped for a full season!), he wasn&#8217;t doing the usual promo cameos. It&#8217;s a little early for that, anyway.

No, Simon is testifying in...<br/>
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		<title>Derby Day: Drinks, Culture &amp; Tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 14:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine C.</dc:creator>
		
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy


There are many reasons to love Rachel Maddow, not the least of which is she makes cocktails during her MSNBC show (as she has done at previous jobs). 

Last night, [...]<br/>
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		<title>New Article: Is Lee Adama the New (And Not So Improved) Thomas Jefferson?  Thoughts on the Battlestar Galactica Finale</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In an article published in PopPolitics magazine, Sarah Yahm ponders why the reincarnated &#8220;Battlestar Galactica,&#8221; a show that consistently raised complex and challenging questions over its four seasons, decided to fall back on pat answers in its devastatingly reactionary series finale:

Frederick Jameson, the Marxist literary critic, argues that pop culture consistently provides us...<br/>
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		<title>&#x201c;You Make Mistakes. You&#x2019;re a Machine&#x201d;: Deconstructing Robot Love in &#x201c;Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles&#x201d; and Beyond</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:39:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Lately, we have been inundated with science fiction narratives that have been exploring our collective love/fear obsession with technology in a new light. &#8220;Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles,&#8221; &#8220;Battlestar Galactica,&#8221; and (a little ways back) &#8220;The Matrix&#8221; trilogy of films all envision a world in which humans and machines &#8212; as distinct races &#8212;...<br/>
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		<title>The Drama of Medicine: How Shows Like &#x201c;ER&#x201d; Influence and Are Influenced by Public Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The 15-year run of  &#8220;ER&#8221; ended last week, sparking a number of reflections and retrospectives.

Since I cover health, I especially appreciated this analysis of the NBC series&#8217; influence on the representation of health care in television programming.

It was back in 1996 when The New England Journal of Medicine first took &#8220;ER&#8221; and other medical [...]<br/>
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		<title>Simple Justice, Grandiose Happiness</title>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[This is a post of utter joy.

Vermont, where I lived for many years, has become the first state to legalize gay marriage without the prompting of a court order.  It&#8217;s the fourth state overall.

Although it has obviously gotten a lot of national press, I suggest following the coverage in the Rutland Herald, Vermont&#8217;s family-owned, independent newspaper, [...]<br/>
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