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	<title>American Madness</title>
	
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	<description>Intelligent Criticism in the Service of a Better Nation</description>
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		<title>Why are we still lynching people in America?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 02:14:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most people in this country who viewed the Casey Anthony trial seem to have disagreed with the final verdict and would like to kill the woman.  This attitude is a slander on our justice system.
The rights of the accused in our judicial system go back pretty far.  They start in English Law with the Magna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Long Goodbye</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmadness.com/2011/07/14/the-long-goodbye/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 13:40:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Query: Must we continue to spend a major part of all Medicare spending on ineffective medical treatment during the last year of life? Or, asked another way: Are we doing Grandpa and Grandma a favor by keeping them marginally alive with no quality of life?
We’ve all heard the scenario; 85 year old Grandpa Ike has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our Mortgage Foreclosure Problems!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 23:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I write this because the newspapers are constantly complaining about the fact that the Obama Administration is unable to save us from the mortgage crisis.  I don&#8217;t think that we need to be saved.  We need to accept what happened and let the people who cannot afford their houses be moved out of them.
Millions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carnegie Hall has crappy marketing (and other reasons for the death of classical music)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Friedlander</dc:creator>
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So here is the crux of my problem with Carnegie Hall: It worships the musicians at the expense of the music.



I am on the list for Carnegie Hall because I&#8217;ve attended a couple of concerts there, but I rarely respond to emails or mailings and I haven&#8217;t been to the Hall in years. Why? Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I’m flummoxed, can anyone explain this to me!</title>
		<link>http://www.americanmadness.com/2010/07/15/im-flummoxed-can-anyone-explain-this-to-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Friedlander</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure that almost no one is terribly concerned with how ultra orthodox Jews view the preparation of leafy vegetables.  A friend of mine’s daughter was told by a super orthodox Rabbi that if she served a lettuce without taking it apart and examining every part of the leaf for tiny bugs, eating it [...]]]></description>
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