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This is Your Brain on Politics
NY Times ^ | January 18, 2005 | JOSHUA FREEDMAN

Posted on 01/17/2005 9:27:05 PM PST by neverdem

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1 posted on 01/17/2005 9:27:07 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem
I love George W.

I smoke everything else.

2 posted on 01/17/2005 9:29:39 PM PST by Nitro
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To: neverdem

The little s*** detector in the back of MY brain tells me that this kind of scientific study could easily be the 21th century equivalent of phrenology, palm reading or astrology. Causation is not correlation.


3 posted on 01/17/2005 9:32:28 PM PST by redpoll (redpoll)
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To: neverdem

Democrats have brains?


4 posted on 01/17/2005 9:34:24 PM PST by Publius (The people of a democracy choose the government they want, and they ought to get it good and hard.)
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To: neverdem

Very good..., now explain my strange fascination with the fat Dixie Chick....


5 posted on 01/17/2005 9:34:56 PM PST by freebilly
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And Republicans, concede that you would like a president to have the depth of knowledge and broad intelligence of Mr. Kerry.

He's a gigolo, whose qualifications, however enviable, are likely not those cited.

6 posted on 01/17/2005 9:35:58 PM PST by dighton
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To: neverdem

And why do the dead only vote Democrat....


7 posted on 01/17/2005 9:36:30 PM PST by freebilly
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And Republicans, concede that you would like a president to have the depth of knowledge and broad intelligence of Mr. Kerry.

True, many of us conservatives long to have a traitor in the White House....

8 posted on 01/17/2005 9:38:08 PM PST by freebilly
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To: redpoll
Causation is not correlation

I like it. Could be a bumper sticker -- like...

"Internalize the Externalities" or "Eschew Obfuscation"

9 posted on 01/17/2005 9:39:22 PM PST by Prince Caspian (Don't ask if it's risky... Ask if the reward is worth the risk)
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To: neverdem
I'm not surprised that the New York Times published this article. As for the author and his research, I have one comment:

Quack, quack, quack.

Congressman Billybob

Click for latest, "Social Security, AARP and Coots"

10 posted on 01/17/2005 9:41:16 PM PST by Congressman Billybob (Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.)
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To: neverdem

The more I found out about kerry, the more I thought he was a traiterous SOB that needs to be thrown in prison. So no, I don't like him one bit.


11 posted on 01/17/2005 9:42:25 PM PST by vpintheak (Liberal = The antithesis of Freedom and Patriotism)
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To: Publius
Democrats have brains?

democrat brains make u stuoid.

12 posted on 01/17/2005 9:44:00 PM PST by Nitro
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To: neverdem

Thanks, it appears that the op-ed writer has a trenchant sense of humor.


13 posted on 01/17/2005 9:45:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on January 13, 2005)
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To: Prince Caspian

How about "Rationalization is not rationality".

"Reality-based thinkers are neither."


14 posted on 01/17/2005 9:46:49 PM PST by jrpascucci (Terrorae delenda est)
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To: redpoll

Apparently my limbic area is underdeveloped.


15 posted on 01/17/2005 9:56:04 PM PST by Glock17 (Aim Center Mass)
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16 posted on 01/17/2005 10:04:42 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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17 posted on 01/17/2005 10:20:17 PM PST by Grampa Dave ( The MSM has been a weapon of mass disinformation for the Rats for at least 4 decades.)
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"And Republicans, concede that you would like a president to have the depth of knowledge and broad intelligence of Mr. Kerry."

LOL! I think it's time to go back to the drawing board.

18 posted on 01/17/2005 10:24:32 PM PST by Balata
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To: neverdem

JOSHUA FREEDMAN....I stopped reading after that.


19 posted on 01/17/2005 10:25:43 PM PST by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: Grampa Dave

LOL!


20 posted on 01/17/2005 10:27:06 PM PST by neverdem (May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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