John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Nov 9, 2009, 11:12 pm
“If you don’t like abortion, don’t have one!” We’ve all heard that slogan before. Pro-lifers know that it elides the question that abortion and society’s acceptan...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Nov 8, 2009, 7:20 pm
At least, that seems to be the logic of Meredith Simons at the XX blog: Remember those conservatives who don’t want the government interfering in health care plans? Right, well, it turns out w...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Oct 20, 2009, 9:45 am
Will Wilkinson writes: That some are able to afford, say, a treatment with very expensive new technology that significantly increases (how much is that?) their chances to survive a devastating cancer...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Oct 11, 2009, 11:22 pm
My first reaction to people defending Roman Polanski was outrage. How could anyone defend a child rapist? It was infuriating to see people who seemed to be somewhat intelligence advancing arguments ...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Oct 11, 2009, 10:54 pm
From the perspective of American domestic politics, the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize is unfortunate. If you’re concerned about the rise of right-wing violence, as many profess to be, then ...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Oct 11, 2009, 10:24 pm
This post triggered the following thought… I propose a new political party, the Original Sin Party. The organizing princple of this party will be that all humans are subject to Original Sin, a...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Oct 1, 2009, 10:27 am
Amanda Marcotte asks: When confronted with abortion oppponents who demand that any health care reform bill should explicitly exclude abortion coverage—which would mean that somewhere between half a...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 29, 2009, 1:03 pm
If Glenn Beck were to have said something like below last week, he’d be accused of being stoking fear and resentment with lies. In Obama’s America, if your 13 year old daughter is drugged...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 27, 2009, 8:15 pm
I’m in a bad mood, and trying to get stuff done with Google Docs, so I’m going “public” with my beefs about it.* Cannot initially save documents to a folder — I have to ...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 11, 2009, 8:15 pm
Interesting Stack Overflow podcast this week. I had seen the list of topics, and came in prepared to disagree with Joel Spolsky about Craigslist being a force for evil. And I did disagree with the f...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 10, 2009, 10:29 am
1. What you just did or are planning to do is outrageous! 2. Oh yeah, well you did it, too several years ago! You’re nothing but a hypocrite! 3. Well, that was totally different because we we...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 9, 2009, 4:17 pm
At MOJ, Steve Shiffrin writes that it is perfectly appropriate for liberals or conservatives to see God as part of their ideological camp: I want to disagree with those who respond by suggesting that...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 8, 2009, 3:22 pm
I try to understand. I understand that Commonweal thinks that abortion is used too often as a dividing issue, and that they are generally supportive of President Obama and health care reform. I don&...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Sep 3, 2009, 11:10 am
At the XX blog, Jessica Grose laments the lack of excitement around Diane Sawyer being named the new anchor of ABC World News Tonight. (Warning: post contains the most unflattering picture of Diane Sa...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 30, 2009, 10:38 pm
We all know the “I’m a Mac; I’m a PC” commercials, where the hoodie-wearing hipster Mac demonstrates the manifest superiority of Macs to the hapless bumbling dissembling PC. I...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 23, 2009, 11:32 pm
There are two distinct but similar arguments that I think are worth teasing apart: The Slippery Slope: Once a well-defined principle is set aside in order to permit a controversial policy, there wil...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 23, 2009, 11:13 pm
and by that, I don’t mean that have certain features that make them self-correcting, I mean that when things start heading off the tracks, the grown-ups in charge take action to correct things. ...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 20, 2009, 2:46 pm
In an article outlinging “5 Things That Should ScareThe Hell Out Of Cards Fans,” Papa Joe Chevalier writes, “October baseball has never- ever- seen a team catch fire and win the Worl...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 19, 2009, 9:29 am
In an article entitled, “Why ‘Obamacare’ Is Failing,” Jonah Goldberg writes: Imagine if George W. Bush, in his effort to partially privatize Social Security, had insisted that...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 17, 2009, 4:29 pm
(yes, that’s intentional hyperbole) Mets manager Jerry Manuel said: You have to be careful into stereotyping individuals. David is a different animal, so to speak. How he is made up is a littl...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 14, 2009, 4:06 pm
Writing at Marc Ambinder’s Politics blog, Chris Good compares John Edwards’s most recent revelation that he is the father of Rielle Hunter’s baby to baseball steroid revelations. I&...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Aug 12, 2009, 11:07 am
Having spoken out about the morals of Catholic basketball coaches before, I will now say that I am much more disturbed by revelations that Rick Pitino apparently paid for an abortion from an adulterou...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Jul 23, 2009, 11:41 am
Sage Stossel writes against defining the word “hero” down to include people like cops, teachers, etc. I think this is an important point that needs to be amplified: But within the framew...
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John M. posted an article on Man Bites Blog - Jul 21, 2009, 11:40 am
Interesting article from Joe Posnaski on the tribute to Stan Musial that wasn’t on last Tuesday night at the All Star Game. He blames the deicision to have President Obama throw out the first ...
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