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		<title>The Prime of Eugene B&#8217;rodie</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/06/09/the-prime-of-eugene-brodie/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:24:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a new outlet for my pedantic nature and a new chapter in my ongoing satire.  Imagine me on the faculty of an Orthodox Jewish college.  Well, I already had the beard&#8211;although I grew mine out of lethargy rather than piety.  And if in the next generation, a number of Orthodox Rabbis are prone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travailogue</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/05/04/travailogue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 22:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, let me offer some travel hints for those of you planning a trip from Belarus to Utah.  Don&#8217;t count on a direct flight.  Air Belarus probably doesn&#8217;t get farther than Vilna.  At some point, you will miss a connecting flight.  A relative of a friend made it up all the way to Chicago before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Copy Rites</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/04/19/copy-rites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 19:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be going to choir practice with more than my usual share of guilt.  I can&#8217;t read music but I manage to sing within an octave of the correct note.  My dyspeptic tendency to belch in the middle of a hymn is almost a tradition at our synagogue; it is like being my own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Levity in Leviticus</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/04/14/the-levity-in-leviticus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each week of the year a specified portion of the Torah is read in synagogues. Saturday, at bar mitzvahs around the world, the congregations heard Leviticus&#8217; strictures on treating leprosy. If you weren&#8217;t invited to the ceremony, let me summarize the prescription. First, wait to see if God bothers to cure the leper. If the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Iron Lady</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/04/08/the-iron-lady/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:24:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Margaret Thatcher is now completely dead.  The film &#8220;The Iron Lady&#8221; remorsely depicted her recent years, that sharp mind and temper lost in dementia.  In fact, that cruel accuracy was the most memorable facet of the movie.  The script itself was confused and befuddled.  The hapless viewer really had trouble keeping track of her life; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Go East, Jung-Un, Go East</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/04/04/go-east-jung-un-go-east/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:45:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;North Korea moved missile to east coast&#8221; Like any immature tyrant, Kim the Young&#8217;un would crave the prospect of a New York premiere.  He blithely ignored the practical considerations.  Silo rentals are much cheaper in Chicago than Manhattan.  And he can forget about avoiding the U.N. inspectors now; in New York, they get free parking. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loose Ends</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/03/29/loose-ends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2013 20:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parody&#8217;s End Hoping to exploit the popularity of World War I and influenza pandemics, HBO promoted &#8220;Parade&#8217;s End&#8221; as the intelligent &#8220;Downton Abbey.&#8221;  It wasn&#8217;t even an intelligible version.  A better comparison would be that &#8220;Parade&#8217;s End&#8221; is the British &#8220;Burns and Allen&#8221;:  Madcap wife dismays husband and Empire. There are only a few minor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Papal Mache</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/03/16/papal-mache/</link>
		<comments>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/03/16/papal-mache/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Irony #1: In a display of unimaginable humility, Pope Francis admitted that Argentina was in South America.  This was considered an act of heresy in his native country which insists that it is part of Europe.  Argentina acknowledges a slight proximity to Brazil and Paraguay but dismisses the coincidence as mere guilt by association.  &#8220;The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reading Between the Lines</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/03/16/reading-between-the-lines-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Mar 2013 19:13:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month the postman has the added onus of delivering rejection letters from colleges.  It is the one time of year when it is more dangerous to be a mailman in Newton, Massachusetts than Kandahar, Afghanistan.  All the rejection letters will have a funereal politeness&#8230;&#8221;We truly regret the opportunity to include a superb student like you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Live and Livid From Rome</title>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2013/03/11/live-and-livid-from-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2013 19:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eugene Finerman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bob Costas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Hello and welcome to our coverage of the 111th Papal Election.  I&#8217;m Bob Costas, along with Matt Lauer.&#8221; &#8220;Bob, did you know that the Romans spelled 111 as CXI?&#8221; &#8220;No, I didn&#8217;t and neither did the Romans.&#8221; &#8220;Now this election is called a conclave because the Cardinals are meeting indoors.  So if they were meeting [...]]]></description>
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