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		<title>Stories we will still have to write in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 13:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter and Rosemary Brasch (Moronia) In January 2009, with a new president about to be inaugurated, we wrote a column about the stories we preferred not having to write, but knew we would. Three years later, we are still writing about those problems; three years from now, we’ll still be writing about them. We had <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/stories-we-will-still-have-to-write-in-2012/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lowe&#8217;s pulls ads from &#8216;All-American Muslim&#8217; after group complains that they aren&#8217;t shown as terrorists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 14:32:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Big Brother]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Hibberd (EW) Hardware store giant Lowe’s has yanked ads from the &#8216;All-American Muslim&#8217; series after the Florida Family Association encouraged members to email the program’s advertisers. “The show profiles only Muslims that appear to be ordinary folks while excluding many Islamic believers whose agenda poses a clear and present danger to liberties and <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/lowes-pulls-ads-from-all-american-muslim-after-group-complains-that-they-arent-shown-as-terrorists/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Labor Not Represented in Management of the &#8216;Public&#8217;s Universities&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211;Although more than one million Pennsylvanians are members of labor unions, and the state has a long history of worker exploitation and union activism, neither of the two largest university systems has a labor representative on its governing board. The only labor representative on the Board of Governors of the State System <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/labor-not-represented-in-management-of-the-publics-universities/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Composer says anti-piracy campaign pirated his song</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 17:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anti-piracy group BREIN is caught up in a huge copyright scandal in the Netherlands. A musician who composed a track for use at a local film festival later found it being used without permission in an anti-piracy campaign. He is now claiming at least a million euros for the unauthorized distribution of his work on <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/composer-says-anti-piracy-campaign-pirated-his-song/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krassner: Sex, Corruption and the Kool-Aid Massacre</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/paul-krassner-sex-corruption-and-the-kool-aid-massacre/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Krassner (Huffington Post) Jim Jones, founder of the 8,000-member People&#8217;s Temple in San Francisco, once asked Margo St. James, founder of the prostitutes&#8217; rights group, COYOTE (Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics), how he could obtain political power. She answered, sardonically, &#8220;Arrange for some of your women to have sex with the bigwigs.&#8221; <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/paul-krassner-sex-corruption-and-the-kool-aid-massacre/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Woman pepper-sprays other Wal-Mart shoppers to get a Black Friday edge</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/woman-pepper-sprays-other-wal-mart-shoppers-to-get-a-black-friday-edge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:11:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(LA Times) A woman who pepper-sprayed other shoppers Thursday night at the Wal-Mart in Porter Ranch had armed herself with the caustic spray to gain an advantage in the fight for merchandise at the Black Friday sale, a fire captain said. Twenty customers, including children, were hurt in the 10:10 p.m. incident. Shoppers complained of <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/woman-pepper-sprays-other-wal-mart-shoppers-to-get-a-black-friday-edge/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bosses who play golf get paid more, but produce less</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:28:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Economist) A recent study found that bosses who don’t play golf are paid 17% less on average than those who do. Could this be because the qualities that make a good golfer—a mixture of hyper-competitiveness with strategic thinking and coolness under fire—also make for a good chief executive? Probably not. The same study found that <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/bosses-who-play-golf-get-paid-more-but-produce-less/'>[...]</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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		<title>Worker claims he was fired for refusing to wear &#8217;666&#8242; sticker</title>
		<link>http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/worker-claimes-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-wear-666-sticker/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(AP)  Billy E. Hyatt claims in a federal lawsuit that he was fired from Pliant Corp., a plastics factory in northern Georgia near Dalton, after he refused to wear a sticker proclaiming that his factory had been accident-free for 666 days. That number is considered the &#8220;mark of the beast&#8221; in the Bible&#8217;s Book of <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/worker-claimes-he-was-fired-for-refusing-to-wear-666-sticker/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>80 is the new 65 when it comes to retirement, survey says</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karin Matz (Reuters) &#8211; When it comes to retirement, many middle class Americans said 80 is the new 65 and plan to delay retirement because of worries over money, according to a new survey. Wells Fargo bank asked 1,500 Americans who earned between $25,000 and $99,999 and ranged in age from 20 into their <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/11/80-is-the-new-65-when-it-comes-to-retirement-survey-says-yahoo-news/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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