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		<title>Election 2010: Here comes the crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Sep 2010 03:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not set aside much time to write lately. I&#8217;ve just been so busy this summer, and my approaching wedding is in three weeks. (Hell, this may very well be my final blog post as a single man.) But I thought I would share this, since it would be quick to post and is just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Balloon boy&#8217; parents: Good riddance</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/12/23/news-and-views/balloon-boy-parents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like this sentence. It sends a message that desperately needs to be sent. That message is: You can&#8217;t yell fire in a crowded theater. As if you needed to be told that. In this fame-obsessed, mentally bankrupt culture we live in today, apparently so. As someone who is frankly tired of the constant one-upmanship [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Text and Drive [TM]</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/09/02/news-and-views/dont-text-and-drive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a video that&#8217;s going viral that I saw today. It&#8217;s apparently a British public service announcement that has been used in schools in the U.K. to warn against the dangers of texting while driving. Now, let me say up front that texting while driving is obviously stupid. I&#8217;ve done it on the rare occasion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s far past time for &#8216;Abby&#8217; be put out to pasture</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/08/31/humor/abby-should-be-fired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working as I do in the newspaper industry, I am reminded on a near-daily basis by the media at large that newspapers are dying because they are outmoded, obsolete, operating under a business model that is no longer sustainable, and plenty of other doom, gloom, and etc. I guess I should feel fortunate that I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve seen America, and his name is Joe</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/10/16/news-and-views/joe-the-plumber/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you watched the presidential debate last night, you no doubt heard the many references by John McCain and Barack Obama to &#8220;Joe the plumber,&#8221; which might as well be written Joe the Plumber with a capital P, seeing as that&#8217;s his official name as far as the media is concerned. From that moment forward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Idiocy du jour: CNN&#8217;s debate EKG</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/10/06/tv/cnn-debate-ekg/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although I&#8217;ve railed on CNN in the past, I think their election coverage and analysis team on the whole has been top-notch. Even though I want to stab Wolf Blitzer with a screwdriver every time he parrots &#8220;the best political team on television,&#8221; I happen to believe that CNN does in fact have the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race to the White House: The sports event of 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/11/sports/elections-are-sports/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve mentioned before, when it comes to watching sports, there&#8217;s only one season that really matters to me: NFL season. From September until the Super Bowl, I watch football like an addict. Two games on Sunday &#8212; maybe even three &#8212; and then ESPN analysis. SportsCenter. NFL Primetime. Basically, any knowledgeable analysis of football [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re a nation of knee-jerk responders</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/08/30/news-and-views/knee-jerk-responders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, about 45 miles from where I live, in the small central Illinois town of Pontiac, there was what&#8217;s known as a &#8220;gun scare&#8221; in a high school. What that means is there was no actual violence, no one was hurt, and no threats were made. But a report of guns having entered the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Save/Ban the Chief!</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/05/07/news-and-views/saveban-the-chief/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/05/07/news-and-views/saveban-the-chief/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 22:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some controversial issues that I find I have no strong feelings about either way, until finally I find myself picking a side in the interests of whatever will fastest end the controversy, because I want the damn thing resolved already. I was a student on the campus of the University of Illinois at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is media playing the role of killer&#8217;s pawn?</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/19/news-and-views/media-pawns/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/19/news-and-views/media-pawns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2007 00:04:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, I&#8217;ve found myself wondering: What responsibilities should the media be taking in regard to its coverage of this particular kind of tragedy? I ask this as an outside observer as well as someone who works in the media, where we have posted on our own web site [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>No answers to find in shooting massacres</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/16/news-and-views/shooting-massacres/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/04/16/news-and-views/shooting-massacres/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 18:52:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gunman earlier today opened fire in a shooting massacre at Virginia Tech and killed at least 32 people, in the deadliest tragedy of its kind in the history of the United States. Let the search for the &#8220;cause&#8221; begin, as well as the search for solutions to &#8220;prevent&#8221; future tragedies of this sort. Depending [...]]]></description>
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