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assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com - 1/13/2009
Did Steven Pinker Lie?
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I am just barely into Pinker’s The Stuff of Thought . Before I can read farther, there is an annoyance I will get off my chest. I am aware that Pinker is politically liberal, somewhere near the “progressive” default setting for academics. Conservatives are also wearily adjusted to liberals ...

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Maggie's Farm — ... far from Palm Beach, yesterday. (Theo) Eating lettuce is selfish? All eating is selfish, isn't it? More on Carol Browner's socialism. 2.5 million pounds for this Woman's Studies student's virginity. Watch some Sheikh from Dubai buy it. Embracing the Sacred: Orthodox Catholic From AVI: Did Steven Pinker lie? Part 1 and Part 2 College affordability: A wolf in sheep's ...

"The most open and accessible inauguration in our nation's history"
sisu — ... just don't happen to be one of them. You gratuitously and without accountability called us a racist way back in December of 2006, and now you're taking us for a fool. Harrumph! Now for the second item that relates to the spirit of that original "an outgoing president who won't do anything to stop the slaughter" phraseology cited above, and this is a keeper, big time, from Assistant Village Idiot [via Maggie's Farm], in the provocatively titled two-part post "Did Steven Pinker Lie?": I am just barely into ...

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