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		<title>Lewis and Tolkien</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 02:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been on a J.R.R. Tolkien kick recently.  I often read the Lord of the Rings over the holidays; it&#8217;s sort of a wintery thing to do.  And once I&#8217;ve spent that amount of time in Middle-Earth I don&#8217;t want to leave.  I usually end up reading more and more.  I&#8217;ll read the Silmarillion and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=207&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday Afternoons</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 01:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jontownsend</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/?p=197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[They say that we experience time linearly, and I suppose they’re right, to a degree.  But if time is stretched out in a line for us, then it’s lumpy, generally oriented in a line but twisting, running back on itself sometimes, and meandering along during the dullest parts of the day.  There are days that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=197&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rage, Rational Dialogue, and Politicizing Christianity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill O'Reilly]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Glenn Beck]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/?p=194</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Watch the clip first. I don&#8217;t know what is weirder:  1) the fact that Glenn Beck, in the face of a question he could not answer, screamed at a caller and called her a pinhead,  2) the fact that after the fact he watched the video and defended his actions repeatedly, essentially saying that in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=194&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Books: They&#8217;re So Last Millennium.</title>
		<link>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/09/11/books-theyre-so-last-millennium-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cushing Academy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every now and then I read an article in the news that is so disturbing to me that I find I can&#8217;t speak.  Let me preface this post by saying that I am extremely interested in technology.  I am completing a graduate degree in media studies.  I just finished an article on video gaming.  But [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=187&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering 9-11?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:01:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jontownsend</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/?p=185</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I got into my car this morning and drove the blessedly short commute to work that I have, I listened to NPR and was reminded that today is Friday, September 11th.  I hadn&#8217;t realized the date until I got in the car and turned on the radio. The 9-11 remember phenomenon is fascinating, compelling, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=185&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clay Shirky and Cognitive Surplus</title>
		<link>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/clay-shirky-and-cognitive-surplus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[clay shirky]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/?p=183</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2008, hordes of people descended on the city of San Francisco for a gathering that some might call a trade expo.  This term is slightly misleading, because the Web 2.0 Expo is not necessarily focused on a single trade or segment of the media industry like other media industry trade expos [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=183&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Wikipedia, Deception, and Authority</title>
		<link>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/wikipedia-deception-and-authority/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 19:41:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jontownsend</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Jordan]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/?p=181</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is an old and tired thing to say that new media and things like wikis are fundamentally changing our ideas about authority.  But when I read the article on Wikipedia by Stacy Shiff, I was interested.  When I read the editor&#8217;s note, I was struck.  I was struck by not only how, in any setting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=181&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Binary Thematic System:  Science and Belief in Star Trek: The Next Generation</title>
		<link>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/07/21/a-binary-thematic-system-science-and-belief-in-star-trek-the-next-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:10:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The week of September 28, 1987, the Star Trek franchise boldly took its next step into a new world when Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) premiered in the United States.  It was a television show set in the 24th century, approximately 70 years after the original Star Trek series took place.  It featured a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=175&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>And now, for a little levity!</title>
		<link>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/06/16/and-now-for-a-little-levity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jontownsend</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These pictures and videos are completely random and have no relevance to anything.  But they&#8217;re funny.  Here&#8217;s hoping they make you laugh so hard you launch the contents of your milk glass across the room through your nasal proboscis.  Or your nose, for those particular folk.  Enjoy!                 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=163&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Point About Palin and Letterman&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/a-good-point-about-palin-and-letterman/</link>
		<comments>http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/2009/06/15/a-good-point-about-palin-and-letterman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 18:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jontownsend</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://jontownsend.wordpress.com/?p=142</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shannyn Moore is an Alaskan blogger, and wrote a good post about the Palin/Letterman broohaha. I appreciated her even tone and the lack of ad hominems, colorful crude metaphors, and venom-coated barbs trying to disguise themselves as arguments. Check out her blog post. I kept wanting to comment to the bloggers who were name-calling on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jontownsend.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4765106&amp;post=142&amp;subd=jontownsend&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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