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Stanford Journal Symposium on Parenting, and the Giant Iconic Bottle

By on February 18, 2009

Those who’ve been following some of my recent discussions about breastfeeding and civil liberties might be interested to note this symposium poster. Parenting, Gender, and the Law is a symposium sponsored by the Stanford Journal for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. The poster icons are a feeding bottle, a gavel, balance scales (of justice, presumably), [...]

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Peeve OTD: Tolerance versus Acceptance

By on August 19, 2008

Why is it, when some poor specimen of a social conservative writes something breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful, and gets responses of “hey, that was breathtakingly offensive/stupid/bigoted/hateful”, the response is all too often snark along the lines of “this must be the famous liberal tolerance I’ve heard so much about”? Nothing wrong with snark per se, but that [...]

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Lefties probably tie their shoelaces wrong, too

By on January 21, 2008

This piece struck a chord with me regarding some of the frequent epithets hurled at “lefties” on LP especially: why have conservatives frequently insulted the type of food (sushi-eating), type of coffee (latte-drinking), or type of alcoholic beverages (wine and / or microbrews) that many progressives consume? It seems to me that they consider an [...]

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