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		<title>Fracking: Corruption is a part of Pennsylvania’s heritage</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brash (Moronia) The history of energy exploration, mining, and delivery is best understood in a range from benevolent exploitation to worker and public oppression. A company comes into an area, leases land in rural and agricultural areas for mineral rights, increases employment, usually in a depressed economy, strips the land of its resources, <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-corruption-a-part-of-pennsylvanias-heritage/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fracking is far more dangerous to health, environmental than industry claims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 11:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211; The natural gas industry defends hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, as safe and efficient. Thomas J. Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research, a pro-industry non-profit organization, claims fracking has been “a widely deployed as safe extraction technique,” dating back to 1949. What he doesn’t say is that until <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/03/fracking-health-environmental-impact-greater-than-claimed/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer words; less filling</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia) The Reduced Shakespeare Co. cleverly and humorously abridges all of Shakespeare’s 37 plays to 97 minutes. Short of having a set of Cliff’s Notes or a collection of Classic Comics, sources of innumerable student essays for more than a half-century, it may be the least painful way to “learn” Shakespeare. The <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/fewer-words-less-filling/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Pains: A Fable for Our Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)>Once, many years ago, in a land far away between two oceans, with fruited plains, amber waves of grain, and potholes on its highways, there lived a young man named Sam. Now, Sam was a bright young man who wanted to work and save money so he could go to school and <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/labor-pains-a-fable-for-our-times/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Making Sport of Our Future</title>
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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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</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/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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