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		<title>Reforming Masculinity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seeing as women frequently complain about men covering or discussing female issues (see abortion), can I complain about Courtney Martin&#8217;s piece at The American Prospect about the search to redefine masculinity? I don&#8217;t have a problem with her attempting it; it provides a good place to leap into a detailed discussion. In fact, I see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2225&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/reforming-masculinity/</link>
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		<title>Should We Insure Abortions, IV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ezra Klein points to the class implications of the Stupak amendment, in that it ignores the vast employer-sponsored insurance subsidies:
But as Rep. Jim Cooper points out in the interview below, the biggest federal subsidy for private insurance coverage is untouched by Stupak&#8217;s amendment. It&#8217;s the $250 billion the government spends each year making employer-sponsored health-care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2223&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/should-we-insure-abortions-iv/</link>
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		<title>The Moral Imperative of the Filibuster</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not hid that I think Joe Lieberman is scum not worthy of the bottom of my shoe. It is quotes like this that lead to such an opinion:
If the public option plan is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote.
Listen, I&#8217;d disagree [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2221&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-moral-imperative-of-the-filibuster/</link>
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		<title>The Prisoner&#8217;s Box</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was planning on writing this post upon seeing the film, The Box, but there is a short film that provides a similar theme (not an uncommon one) that I can link and use as an excuse to address the topic:

The basic premise is that you can press a button, killing a random person, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2218&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/the-prisoners-box/</link>
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		<title>Should Abortions Be Insured, III</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen, I try to have a civil tone here. I make an argument that there is a reasonable position to not use federal funds to pay for elective abortion. Those supporting that position, aren&#8217;t always so civil:
Writes Pilgrim Soul,
Charmingly I expect that in the next few days all your liberal dude friends will be trying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2213&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/should-abortions-be-insured-iii/</link>
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		<title>Should Abortions Be Insured, Ctd.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About three months ago, I talked about the abortion debate happening as part of the health reform debate:
Aside from the presence of medical complications, abortion is an elective procedure. One does not NEED to have an abortion for the sake of their health. It is a matter of major life convenience. If our goal is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2211&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/should-abortions-be-insured-ctd/</link>
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		<title>Suffocating Academia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MattY is upbeat about the value of a budget commission aimed at taking the tricky matter of long-term deficit/debt reduction slightly out of the partisan arena:
Politicians love commissions. They love them so much that journalists have come to love cynically deriding them. So now that talk of a “budget commission” to tackle the long-term deficit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2208&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/suffocating-academia/</link>
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		<title>Things I&#8217;ll Never Get: Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From a Feministing discussion of the film Precious:
In the book, the description of Blue Rain, the half-messiah, half-educator that delivers Precious from the bondage of illiteracy and abuse is as follows: &#8220;She dark, got nice face, big eyes, and&#8230;long dreadlocky hair.&#8221; (39-40) This character in the movie is played by Paula Patton, a light-skinned African [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2206&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/things-ill-never-get-part-1/</link>
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		<title>Self-Defeating Islamaphobia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I choose to outsource my commentary on Fort Hood to the Brits:
It&#8217;s a tragic massacre in the first place. It will doubtless increase suspicion of Muslim servicemembers, which in turn propels more religious polarization, which makes winning this war harder still. You can instantly see how the Malkins will spin this, and how a war [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2204&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/self-defeating-islamaphobia/</link>
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		<title>Sexuality and Suicide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently free dating site okcupid also does surveys. Feministing highlights data on suicidal thoughts broken down by gender and sexuality (and nationality for Canada and US). They observe that bisexual women have the highest rate.

Now, it is not in the least surprising that there is a gender gap (women attempt suicide far more than men, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com&blog=4177552&post=2201&subd=votingwhileintoxicated&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://votingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/sexuality-and-suicide/</link>
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