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		<title>To Heir is Human</title>
		<description><![CDATA[George Bernard Shaw viewed morality as a middle class habit.  The lower class was preoccupied with survival and couldn&#8217;t be sidetracked by a puritanical affectations.  The upper class could afford to enjoy itself without fear of consequences; it had etiquette rather than morals.
But one of the rules of etiquette dictated that a woman&#8217;s [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "To Heir is Human", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/27/to-heir-is-human/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Questionable Birth Announcements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1819 Louisa, Duchess of Saxe-Coburg, gave birth to her second son.   The infant did not look remotely like her husband, a fact observed by the Duke.   A new-born brunet&#8211;in a fair-haired family&#8211;raised some questions as to how close the Duchess had been with the court financier.  [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Questionable Birth Announcements", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/26/questionable-birth-announcements/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>When in Rome</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day, and it also took three days to sack.  The Visigoths began their spree this day in 410.    
At the time, Rome was little more than a very rich mausoleum. The Eastern more stable half of the Roman Empire was ruled from Constantinople. The Western, reeling [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "When in Rome", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/25/when-in-rome/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>Despise and Consent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, I have Joe Biden on my mind.  Remember how impressive he and the Senate Club were at the confirmation hearings for Son-of-Sam Alito&#8230;.
Sen. Biden: I&#8217;d like to begin my question by reading aloud the first 200 pages of &#8220;Finnegan&#8217;s Wake&#8221; which I may claim to have written.
Sen. Specter: While we are [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Despise and Consent", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/23/despise-and-consent/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Tenuous Tudors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1485, Henry Tudor Sr. ascended to the English throne&#8211;climbing a few corpses on the way.
Prior to the victory at Bosworth Field, the Tudor family crest might have been a leek with a bar sinister. In other words, the Tudors were Welsh bastards. They were related to Henry VI through his mother&#8217;s [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Tenuous Tudors", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/22/the-tenuous-tudors/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>If only Lincoln and Douglas Debated Today&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On this day in 1858, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held the first of seven debates in their campaign for the U.S. Senate.  Each debate lasted three hours and addressed only one question.  Somehow the two men carried on without a interrogating panel of reporters or pundits.  It evidently was a more [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "If only Lincoln and Douglas Debated Today&#8230;.", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/21/if-only-lincoln-and-douglas-debated-today/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>On This Day in 636</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the increasingly rare occurence of news reports from Iraq, and if you still bother to pay attention, you would have heard of the Yarmuk Hospital.  It is that dilapidated, pathetic locale for hapless Iraqi civilians to get some facsimile of healthcare.  So, who was this namesake Yarmuk?  An outstanding physician?  [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "On This Day in 636", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/20/on-this-day-in-636/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>NBC&#8217;s Persecution of John McCain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[McCain Campaign Attacks Bias of NBC
To prove NBC&#8217;s continuous discrimination against Senator John McCain, the Republican campaign presented the following examples:
Senator McCain has never been asked to portray a judge, witness or corpse on &#8220;Law and Order.&#8221;  
Senator McCain was turned down for a role in &#8220;The Man From U.N.C.L.E.&#8221;  The role went [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "NBC&#8217;s Persecution of John McCain", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/19/nbcs-persecution-of-john-mccain/" });</script>]]></description>
		<link>http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/19/nbcs-persecution-of-john-mccain/</link>
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		<title>The First Tax Lawyers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upon ascending the throne in 1509, handsome young Henry VIII knew how to ingratiate himself with his subjects.  He executed his father&#8217;s two most unpopular ministers.   
Edmund Dudley and Richard Empson had been geniuses at collecting taxes, to the delight of Henry VII.  The first Tudor was stingy by nature, perhaps [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The First Tax Lawyers", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/18/the-first-tax-lawyers/" });</script>]]></description>
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		<title>The Auntie Christ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John McCain&#8217;s campaign ad &#8220;The One&#8221; has generated a lot of buzz regarding the &#8220;Left Behind Series.&#8221; Political commentators are comparing McCain&#8217;s portrayal of competitor Barack Obama with the blockbuster apocalyptic series&#8217; depiction of the antichrist. But even the series authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins don&#8217;t think Obama is the antichrist. 
Of course, [...]<script type="text/javascript">SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Auntie Christ", url: "http://finermanworks.com/your_rda_of_irony/2008/08/15/the-auntie-christ/" });</script>]]></description>
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