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		<title>My problem with Clone Wars, in less than 700 words</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 04:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the real problem I have with the Clone Wars series concept is making the good guys out of the clone troopers —&#8221;today we fight for all our brothers back home,&#8221; and all that shit. It&#8217;s like doing an origin story on the actual stormtroopers and making an animated kids series that says, hey, the Gestapo [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2894&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bombast and baseball</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 05:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Darryl Strawberry created a stir the other day by claiming his 1986 Mets team was better than his 1998 Yankees team. Without going into the merits of his argument, the negative zeal of Yankee fans in defending their team reminded me much of what has gone wrong with this country and why I am happy to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2873&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mets GM: Opportunities lost and found</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Oct 2010 06:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mets]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now the worst-kept non-secret in town official, Sandy Alderson was is expected to be announced as the new Mets general manager on Friday. I admit to having perhaps a knee-jerk reaction to the news he was the front-runner for the job a few weeks ago, particularly since the rumor mill had Tony LaRussa joining him. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2834&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Don Draper wants vs. what we expect of him</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 03:26:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Mad Men]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So,  perhaps it wasn&#8217;t the ending many fans wanted and hoped for. If that&#8217;s want what you want, &#8220;Friends&#8221; is probably still on re-runs on one of the Turner stations. Don Draper blew up a consistent source of income for an advertising firm — Big Tobacco — last week in a gamble designed to save [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2809&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Yankee Stadium flotsam and jetstream</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:54:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re: Homers by Bengie Molina and Josh Hamilton in Game 4 (addendum, 11:59 p.m.: and, another by Hamilton and one by Nelson Cruz); To: Monstrous New Yankee Stadium boosters: When you build a bandbox with the dimensions of a Little League field, don&#8217;t groan when your opponents also sock multiple home runs to put a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2818&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reason No. 613 to hate the Yankees</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 06:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Yankees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cliff Lee did great in his final audition in front of the Bronx faithful, though not sure how faithful they all are when a sizable portion of them abandoned the game before its conclusion. Hey, Yankee fans: Your team scored 5 runs in the eighth inning a few days ago, on the road — is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2806&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>No, but I played one in St. Elmo&#8217;s Fire</title>
		<link>http://theicepickcometh.wordpress.com/2010/10/16/no-but-i-played-one-in-st-elmos-fire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 04:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Generation X]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to do a triple-take when I read this: Actor-writer McCarthy named Travel Journalist of the Year (Romenesko, Poynter Online, via Society of American Travel Writers) Yes, Andrew McCarthy, Gen X sensitive-character actor who played a budding journalist secretly in love with pearl-necklace-wearing Ally Sheedy in St. Elmo&#8217;s Fire, has won the &#8220;2010 Travel [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=theicepickcometh.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3635198&amp;post=2778&amp;subd=theicepickcometh&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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