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		<title>MLB: Just add instant replay already</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/06/03/rants/mlb-instant-replay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, last night, Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers threw a perfect game. Except it wasn't a perfect game, because with two outs in the bottom of the ninth &#8212; you couldn't write fiction this implausible &#8212; first-base umpire Jim Joyce blew the call. And Joyce admitted after the game that he blew the call. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Who needs the iPad? Nobody, I&#039;m sure.</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/04/04/rants/who-needs-the-ipad/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/04/04/rants/who-needs-the-ipad/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 06:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The headline pretty much says it all. What is the point of the iPad? I think this may be the perfect example of the consumer product that exists first and foremost to fleece its buyers out of their money. Goal #2: To convince them that it's great in the absence of these customers having better [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#039;24&#039;: The lamentable Dana Walsh situation</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/03/17/tv/24-season-8/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/03/17/tv/24-season-8/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 06:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word is, this is going to end up being the last season for 24. Based on what we've seen this season, I'm thinking that wouldn't be such a bad idea, especially if it allows the show to just get it over with and become a movie franchise.


Brian Hastings (Mykelti Williamson) and Dana Walsh (Katee Sackhoff) [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>Go Daddy and Danica Patrick are the opposite of awesome</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/02/09/tv/godaddy-ads/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2010/02/09/tv/godaddy-ads/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 00:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've about reached the end of my patience with Danica Patrick. Specifically, Danica Patrick teamed with Go Daddy to be an annual Super Bowl institution excercising tired and unfunny assumptions about the Lowest Common Denominator. Has anything ever played on such a dumb and repetitive brain-dead premise (&#34;Hey, guys who watch football also like hot [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#039;Doorbusters&#039;: Shame on you</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/11/27/rants/doorbusters-shame-on-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/11/27/rants/doorbusters-shame-on-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. So you all know about my dislike of &#34;Black Friday&#34; hype from my previously posted complaints, from both my own personal experience as well as from madness in the headlines.
But I just can't let it go. This year, I must register my distaste over a particular persisting word associated with the Black Friday madness:
&#34;Doorbuster.&#34; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>And this year&#039;s winner for Douchebag Theme Song is...</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/07/20/rants/dbag-theme-song/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/07/20/rants/dbag-theme-song/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:16:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#34;Don't Trust Me&#34; by 3OH!3, featuring these winner lyrics. At the risk of sounding like an out-of-touch-with-today's-youth kinduva guy (you know, someone who might shout &#34;Get off my lawn!&#34; to neighborhood kids), I must voice my hatred of this godawful song.
I was standing around at a Fourth of July party with some friends a couple [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Michael Jackson coverage: Enough already</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/07/06/tv/enough-michael-jackson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:15:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understand that Michael Jackson was huge and the passing of a pop icon is a big deal, blah, blah, etc. But the coverage of this event in the news has become nothing short of sickening. It's a media feeding frenzy, and it's ridiculous.
I don't care what you thought of the guy as an artist [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>I have an announcement for Jon &amp; Kate</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/06/22/tv/jon-and-kate-announcement/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2009/06/22/tv/jon-and-kate-announcement/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 18:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jon &#038; Kate Gosselin have an announcement. So say the advertisements for tonight's episode of TLC's &#34;Jon &#038; Kate Plus 8,&#34; a formerly cutesy reality show that I've seen exactly two episodes of.
Those two episodes were seen about a year ago as I was doing things around my house and had the TV on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Just stop it already, you Black Friday idiots</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/11/28/rants/black-friday-idiots/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/11/28/rants/black-friday-idiots/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two years ago, on a lark, I did the Black Friday thing, as sort of a sociological experiment more than anything else. I consider myself above the fray on this whole issue; even as I was doing it I was lamenting the stupidity of having lowered myself to participating in the increasingly hyped event that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>You&#039;ve got to be kidding me</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/07/12/tv/americas-greatest-dog/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/07/12/tv/americas-greatest-dog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven't been watching any non-cable network television over the summer, so I was amazed to find out (or maybe not) via one of my RSS feeds that there was a show that debuted on Thursday called &#34;America's Greatest Dog.&#34; 
Are you fucking kidding me, people? Apparently you'll watching anything.
The RSS feed that informed me [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Enough with this Miley Cyrus bull$#!%</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/05/05/rants/miley-cyrus-bs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/05/05/rants/miley-cyrus-bs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 16:54:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The overexposure is really starting to rankle my ass, and the pop-garbage media, apparently at a loss of things to talk about (but that's why they're pop-garbage), have latched onto the Miley Cyrus flap over her Vanity Fair photo shoot.
To the pop-garbage media: Stop it. Stop it now. 
First of all, the whole Miley Cyrus/Hannah [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>21</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stop complaining about &#039;losing an hour&#039;</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/07/rants/dst-complaining/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/07/rants/dst-complaining/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Daylight-Saving Time begins Sunday at 2 a.m., for which I am glad, because that means I get an extra hour of daylight in the evenings, which in turn makes it seem more like spring (even if the weather isn't there yet) and less like this interminable winter that I've had to endure. (Yes, I said [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>I’ve had it, had it, had it with this winter bull$#!%</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/04/rants/sick-of-winter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/03/04/rants/sick-of-winter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:38:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm used to winter. We have it here every year. In the past we've had some mild winters and some average winters &#8212; but this winter? It has been a harsh and long, long winter. And I've fucking had it. 
The notion of spring has been one big, long tease. On Sunday it was 65 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>The FCC is a (expletive deleted) joke</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/01/31/tv/fcc-is-a-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/01/31/tv/fcc-is-a-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've long known that the FCC &#8212; or specifically their censorship arm &#8212; is a joke. This was especially confirmed in the months after the 2004 Super Bowl and its crappy MTV-produced halftime show starring Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake and the infamous &#34;wardrobe malfunction.&#34; 
People were shocked. Chagrined. Offended. Beside themselves. Ready to go [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>The endless cycle of a declining popular culture</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/01/07/rants/paparazzi-scum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2008/01/07/rants/paparazzi-scum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 23:05:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched a &#34;news&#34; video online the other day that framed an absolutely shameful picture. I'll get to the shameful part in a minute, but the video was taken at the scene of the climax of the latest Britney Spears meltdown. (Paging Dr. Phil. Ugh.) Aside: Is it a coincidence that Britney Spears' initials are [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>I&#039;m done with McAfee VirusScan</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/11/14/rants/done-with-mcafee/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/11/14/rants/done-with-mcafee/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:11:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years and years and years, I've been a loyal customer of McAfee for their virus protection and security software. Lots of people swear by Norton, but I've never been one of their customers; just didn't happen that way. There's a saying in retail that if you can get a customer early in their buying [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Please: Christmas does not begin on Nov. 1</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/11/06/rants/christmas-nov-1/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/11/06/rants/christmas-nov-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 16:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, people. Enough is enough. Every year it starts earlier, and earlier, and earlier. Well, maybe not really &#8212; after all, I'm not seeing Christmas stuff in August yet, so there must be some sort of graduated push-back schedule. But I'm pretty sure that at some point earlier in my lifetime, Christmas season did not [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Halloween is not a season, so just stop it</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/09/12/rants/halloween-is-not-a-season/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/09/12/rants/halloween-is-not-a-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 13:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You've got to be kidding me on this. One of my neighbors has put a Halloween-themed doormat outside his door. It has ghosts and bats and jack-o-lanterns and orange and black. It screams &#34;Halloween&#34; &#8212; nearly as much as it screams &#34;stupid.&#34; 
It's bad enough that Christmas season now starts at the ridiculously early date [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>I loathe thee. Let me count the ways</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/08/20/tv/mtv-parental-control/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/08/20/tv/mtv-parental-control/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend &#8212; channeling around aimlessly and landing on MTV by mistake &#8212; made me a witness to what might be the worst television I've ever seen. It was some cringe-inducing, awful-awful-awful, can't-believe-they-made-this, useless, contemptible garbage. I would've changed the channel, but I was not in control of the remote at the moment. Someone [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stop saying &#039;backslash,&#039; you computer illiterates</title>
		<link>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/08/02/rants/stop-saying-backslash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.jammersblog.com/2007/08/02/rants/stop-saying-backslash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 22:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jamahl Epsicokhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working in a building where there are still plenty of people who are behind on the whole web/technological curve, one of my biggest pet peeves is when people say &#34;backslash&#34; when they really mean &#34;slash.&#34; 
Whenever they want to put some promotion in print that refers to an online page, I get marketing or advertising [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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