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	<title>Food for the Spirit and the Soul &#187; Opinion</title>
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	<description>Because the diverse parts of human nature need to be nourished in different ways.</description>
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		<title>Ladies And Gentlemen . . . Step Right Up.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[3 February 1882 &#8211; Circus owner P.T. Barnum buys his world-famous elephant Jumbo, and thereby garnered enormous profits. Were he alive today, the enterprising Barnum could realize an even greater return on his investment by skipping the symbolic elephant and instead purchasing a Republican congressman – by which I mean, of course, by creating a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heroes Both Human And Canine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Nome calling . . . Nome calling . . .” On 20 January 1925, that message flashed over the airwaves with special urgency, since an outbreak of diphtheria threatened to devastate the population of the isolated and blizzard-bound city. Shortly thereafter, in one of the most heroic episodes in the history of the Arctic, 20 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boobs and Idiots: There&#8217;s No Difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:43:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.” – H. L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, satirist, and scathing critic of American life and culture, who died on 29 January 1956. If you have seen the movie “Idiocracy,” then you know the view of the United States that informs much of Mencken’s work (Mencken coined [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Inquiring Minds</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A vitally important question: If Sylvester the Cat suddenly fell passionately in love with his mother, would he then be an Oedipuss? Another vitally important question: If you met a dog who told you that he was a major star but who refused to tell you his name or give you his autograph, should your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Classic Translation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:50:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like Basil Fawlty, “I learnt Classical Spanish,” and not the sort of drivel that they teach in schools or actually speak in, well, Spanish-speaking countries. A note to a female Spanish teacher: Subject: El Hispanio Classico I know that Spanish is gender sensitive (“la feminista touche’” – “a bitchy female grammarian might stab you with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Somewhere among the clouds above . . .”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Died 27 January 1989 (at age 101) – Sir Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, English aircraft designer and manufacturer whose creations included the legendary Sopwith Camel, one of the best allied fighters during WWI. For most Americans, the Sopwith Camel is associated with Snoopy, the would-be pilot of “Peanuts” fame, since it was the aircraft which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Turkey</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[26 January 1784 &#8211; Benjamin Franklin declares his unhappiness over the eagle being selected as America&#8217;s symbol, and expresses his preference for the turkey. While Franklin’s stated opinion seems innocuous, I have done some serious scholarly investigation on several conspiracy-related websites, and I have discovered that, in retrospect, Franklin’s comment is actually ominous, and so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Great Day For Book Lovers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:33:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Born 25 January 1874 – W. Somerset Maugham, English playwright and novelist. While “Of Human Bondage” is inarguably Maugham’s masterpiece, I recommend that everyone should also read “The Razor’s Edge,” since the novel will speak forcefully to people grown weary of living in a time when mindless consumerism, crackpot religion, and venomous politics have become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Begin The New Year With A Smile</title>
		<link>http://www.robertneralich.com/2012/01/23/lets-begin-the-new-year-with-a-smile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 17:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.&#8221; – Giambattista Vico (died 23 January 1744), Italian philosopher, pretty much describing America’s plans for Super Bowl Sunday. Below – Giambattista Vico, who probably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time For America To Stop Being In The Red</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Neralich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s be honest: No one will ever discover a cure for the dread disease Gingeritis, and so, since we normal people are simply going to have to endure having these pariahs in our midst, I have a suggestion that would at least keep them out of sight most of the time. I propose that we [...]]]></description>
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