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		<title>The lowly groundhog: long may they Live</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:39:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, Thursday. That means there will be an additional six weeks of winter. Or, it means there will be an early Spring. It doesn’t make much difference. Phil has an accuracy rate of about 39 percent, according to the StormFax Weather Almanac. That’s probably about the same as <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/the-lowly-groundhog-long-may-they-live/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Miss America: auditioning for center stage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 12:31:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia) Tucked between the New Hampshire primary and Ground Hog Day, and directly competing against an NFL playoff game, is Saturday night’s annual Miss America pageant. Although the headquarters is still near Atlantic City, where it originated in 1921, the pageant—don’t call it a beauty contest—has been a part of the Las <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/miss-america-auditioning-for-center-stage/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sport of Our Future</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/making-sport-of-our-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;One of the fun things sports writers do is try to predict the winners and scores of upcoming games, from high school through the pros. For special “look-at-us-we’re important” bonus points, they create lists of “Top” teams and rank them, both pre-season and weekly. Sports writers have some kind of genetic mutation <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/making-sport-of-our-future/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>One Jew&#8217;s Christmas</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/one-jews-christmas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 16:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;I am a Jew. I don’t mind receiving Christmas cards or being wished a “Merry Christmas” from friends, clerks, or even in junk mail trying to sell me something no sane person should ever buy. My wife and I even send Christmas cards, with messages of peace and joy, to our friends <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/one-jews-christmas/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Penn State trustees may also have violated state law</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;The Penn State Board of Trustees may have several times violated state law for its failure to publicly announce meetings and how it handled the firing of Coach Joe Paterno. However, these violations may be the least of the Board’s worries, as it scrambles to reduce fall-out from the scandal that began <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/penn-state-trustees-may-also-have-violated-state-law/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/3995/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:43:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; by Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;There is nothing the media love more than a good celebrity sex scandal. Since the story of Scarlett Johansson’s purloined nude pictures had run its course, and the media squeezed every drop of ink it could from the Kim Kardashian/Kris Humphries engagement/wedding/marriage/divorce, they had to find something else to feed the <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/3995/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq is just another war without an end</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/iraq-just-another-war-without-an-end/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 10:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) We know the names of every one of the 4,479 Americans who were killed and the 32,200 who were wounded, both civilian and military, between March 20, 2003 and Oct. 21, 2011, the day President Barack Obama, fulfilling a campaign promise, declared the last American soldier would leave Iraq before the end <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/10/iraq-just-another-war-without-an-end/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Corpprate America Sends a Labor Day Message</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/09/corpprate-america-sends-a-labor-day-message/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 11:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch(Spectrum) For most Americans, the only significance of Labor Day is that it concludes a three day weekend. For Kirk Artley, it means he has about six weeks left of employment. On Aug. 24, RR Donnelley, a Chicago-based megacorporation that claims to be “the world’s premier full-service provider of print and related services,” <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/09/corpprate-america-sends-a-labor-day-message/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>New Hampshire or bus: Sarah&#039;s no-campaign campaign tour</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/06/new-hampshire-or-bus-sarahs-no-campaign-campaign-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 09:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) Speeding along city streets, going from somewhere to somewhere else, was the Sarah Palin &#8220;One Nation I&#8217;m Not Running for Anything But Follow Me Anyhow&#8221; bus chase. Following her were about two dozen reporters and photographers from the national news media, and now and then some local news teams, many of whom <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/06/new-hampshire-or-bus-sarahs-no-campaign-campaign-tour/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The news, it is a-changin&#039;: bin Laden and the mass media</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/05/ar-revolution-the-news-it-is-a-changin-bin-laden-and-the-mass-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 11:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Spectrum) It was a little before 9 a.m. I was chatting with two students. Another student came in, and asked if we had heard a plane had hit a building in New York City. We hadn&#8217;t, but I assumed it was a light private plane, and the pilot had mechanical difficulty or <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/05/ar-revolution-the-news-it-is-a-changin-bin-laden-and-the-mass-media/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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