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	<title>The People&#039;s Republic of Moronia &#187; Scams</title>
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		<title>American Apparel refuses to give prize to woman who won their photo contest</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 23:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gavon Laessig (BuzzFeed) Nancy Upton, the gorgeous prankster who satirized American Apparel&#8217;s condescending search for a plus-sized model with smutty and silly overindulgence photos, actually won the online contest! Then American Apparel acted all American Apparel and wouldn&#8217;t recognize her victory, even though she had far and away the most votes. Here are some <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/02/american-apparel-refuses-to-give-prize-to-woman-who-won-their-photo-contest/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Gingrich urges students to get jobs, but his wife and family paid for his school</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Karen Tumulty (Washington Post) Newt Gingrich thinks today’s youths have it way too easy.  Gingrich said. “I would tell students: ‘Get through as quick as you can. Borrow as little as you can. Have a part-time job.’ In a 1995 profile for Vanity Fair, author Gail Sheehy discovered that Gingrich financed his own education <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/gingrich-urges-students-to-get-jobs-but-his-wife-and-family-paid-for-his-school/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Krassner&#8217;s Lunar New Year predictions for 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul Krassner (Moronia) Politics: The electoral college will be replaced by a system where voters will choose the polling firm they trust the most. Rick Perry will copyright the word “Oops.” Show Business: Angelina Jolie will legally adopt Brad Pitt. The Tea Party will become a popular sitcom. Capital-punishment executions will become a top-rated <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/paul-krassners-lunar-new-year-predictions-for-2012/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Welfare drug testing bill withdrawn after being amended to include lawmakers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jules Siegel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Arthur Delaney (Huffington Post) A Republican member of the Indiana General Assembly withdrew his bill to create a pilot program for drug testing welfare applicants Friday after one of his Democratic colleagues amended the measure to require drug testing for lawmakers. &#8220;There was an amendment offered today that required drug testing for legislators as <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2012/01/welfare-drug-testing-bill-withdrawn-after-being-amended-to-include-lawmakers/'>[...]</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>
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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>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>One Jew&#8217;s Christmas</title>
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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>Pennsylvania Legislators Shoot Down Pigeons—Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 12:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walter Brasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Walter Brasch (Moronia)&#8211; If the first year gross anatomy class at the Penn State Hershey medical school needs spare body parts to study, they can visit the cloak room of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. That’s where most of the legislators left their spines. The House voted 124–69, Dec. 13, to send an animal <a href='http://moronia.us/front/2011/12/pennsylvania-legislators-shoot-down-pigeons%e2%80%94again/'>[...]</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>
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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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