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BOY, I sure hope this professor has tenure...
1 posted on 03/09/2012 7:24:47 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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"deserves only to be ridiculed, mocked, and jeered" for saying that women should have access to contraception."

There the Left goes again, manipulating the language. Who has ever denied women "access" to contraceptives? As has been demonstrated, the spoiled co-eds of Georgetown can go to their nearby Target store and "access" contraceptives for $9 a month, without a prescription.

I guess they are equating the term "access" with getting something free of charge. By that logic, I can claim that I am being denied access to a Lexus because I can't get one for free.
2 posted on 03/09/2012 7:30:56 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia (Be careful of believing something just because you want it to be true.)
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Contraceptive sponges! LOL!

Viciously good wit!

Contraception in the courts of the Bourbons--a vinegar-soaked sponge used like an IUD.

In other words, a do***e bag.

This guy is more daring, in his way, than even our Rush.

3 posted on 03/09/2012 7:31:05 AM PST by Mamzelle
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It is a shame that the state of academia is such that his argument is lost in the political correctness of it all. At the core of the argument is that we have a right to the product of our labors. That concept is so far removed from study these days that people don’t even recognize it when it hits them in the face.


4 posted on 03/09/2012 7:31:05 AM PST by JTHomes (Free markets now!)
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Landsburg has resoundingly dismissed his critics as "contraceptive sponges,"

I like this guy already
5 posted on 03/09/2012 7:31:19 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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I hope he has tenure also!

“Common Sense” today is lost, or neglected, or even despised.

I just heard in an old movie: “Today is Tommorrow”


6 posted on 03/09/2012 7:31:46 AM PST by LetMarch (If a man knows the right way to live, and does not live it, there is no greater coward. (Anonymous)
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Landsburg has resoundingly dismissed his critics as "contraceptive sponges," ...
BWAHAHAHAHA He called them...er...ummm...uh...scum suckers!
Yeah, that's close enough.
7 posted on 03/09/2012 7:32:27 AM PST by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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"Former Slate contributor . . ."

This guy is no right-wing nutjob, he's obviously a liberal with intellectual integrity (I didn't think their were any).

This guy is a hero for standing up for the truth, consistency, and rationality.
8 posted on 03/09/2012 7:34:12 AM PST by Sudetenland (Anybody but Obama!!!!)
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in a sense, Rush, and this feller, are the only voices standing up for the Catholic Church’s ideals


11 posted on 03/09/2012 7:43:41 AM PST by stickywillie (a corrupt parallel universe exists beside our wonderful Constitution)
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I hope there is a good audio of these comments so Rush can play them over and over on Monday!


12 posted on 03/09/2012 7:45:34 AM PST by mosaicwolf (Strength and Honor)
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Landsburg has resoundingly dismissed his critics as "contraceptive sponges," and devoted another blog posts to rebutting their arguments in favor of contraception access.

LOL - contraceptive sponges.... We've got ourselves a new hero - seems that's happening more and more... life is good!

Hope Rush Limbaugh sees this...

13 posted on 03/09/2012 7:48:08 AM PST by GOPJ (Democrat-Media Complex - buried stories and distorted facts... freeper 'andrew' Breitbart)
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Guess the University President doesn’t want to hear talk about “if you pay, you play” stuff ~ might well reveal some secrets at that campus!


14 posted on 03/09/2012 7:49:34 AM PST by muawiyah
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love it.


16 posted on 03/09/2012 7:56:07 AM PST by GOP Poet
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“What he advocates is logical consistency and an appreciation for ethical symmetry.”

Yeah, let me know how that works out. You’ll find that at the end of the rainbow along with “hope and change”. It’s right next to the fountain of youth.

This guy has a way with phrases.


17 posted on 03/09/2012 7:58:50 AM PST by albionin
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What [Limbaugh] advocates is logical consistency and an appreciation for ethical symmetry.

I heard Rush talk about it.. I honestly had the same impression of what Rush was saying.. I simply lacked the eloquence to describe my feeling. I said that it was tit for tat.

18 posted on 03/09/2012 7:59:47 AM PST by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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Me too. They’ll be burning him in no time. Hopefully in effigy, but who knows? We all know how liberal and tolerant and open to dialogue the left is...especially it’s academics and they’re minions, errr students.


20 posted on 03/09/2012 8:00:34 AM PST by pgkdan (Rick Santorum 2012. Conservative's last, best chance!)
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"Her argument focused primarily on the medical (and non-contraceptive) uses of birth control."

Fluke's Testimony: "Without insurance coverage, contraception can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school. For a lot of students who, like me, are on public interest scholarships, that’s practically an entire summer’s salary. Forty percent of female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially as a result of this policy."

Fluke did talk a lot about certain medical cases wherein contraceptives would help. However, if her intent was to focus only on the medical benefits of contraceptives, she undercut herself by bringing up the figure of 40% of female students who struggled financially." She forgot the lesson of Upton Sinclair's book "The Jungle." It intended to extoll the virtues of Socialism, but society focused on the dreadful conditions of the meat packing industry.

Sandra Fluke:

"You might respond that contraception is accessible in lots of other ways. Unfortunately, that’s not true. Women’s health clinics provide vital medical services, but as the Guttmacher Institute has documented, clinics are unable to meet the crushing demand for these services. Clinics are closing and women are being forced to go without. How can Congress consider the Fortenberry, Rubio, and Blunt legislation that would allow even more employers and institutions to refuse contraceptive coverage and then respond that the non-profit clinics should step up to take care of the resulting medical crisis, particularly when so many legislators are attempting to defund those very same clinics?"

This gets back to the argument of contraceptives in general. It has been demonstrated that there are a number of contraceptive devices available over the counter. If a woman can't afford those, or will not ask her partner to use a condom, it supports the argument that a woman is asking someone else to pay so that she can have sex.

JMO, but is has been amply demonstrated that birth control devices are readily available, and contraceptive pills can be obtain cheaply or even free. And Fluke has not clarified what "vital medical services" the clinics provide that women so desperately need.

23 posted on 03/09/2012 8:06:06 AM PST by Enterprise ("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
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24 posted on 03/09/2012 8:15:45 AM PST by Iron Munro ("Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight he'll just kill you." John Steinbeck)
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Not to be confused with the late Steve Landesberg (1936-2010), best known for his role in the show “Barney Miller.”


27 posted on 03/09/2012 8:34:28 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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“contraceptive sponges”

Now that’s an instant classic. Thank you Professor Landsberg. Well shut my mouth, there is at least one decent professor in the United States after all.

Of course I don’t know the rest of this guy’s story, but on this issue he nailed it.

They’re contraceptive sponges. Love it.


28 posted on 03/09/2012 8:36:56 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Abortion? No. Gov't heath care? No. Gore on warming? No. McCain on immigration? No.)
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Fluke’s years of liberal activism. Add her ties to the LGBTQ and her efforts to:

” force schools to pay for sex change operations”.

http://voices.yahoo.com/sandra-fluke-liberal-lesbian-activist-secret-11062294.html?cat=9

Sandra Fluke — Liberal Lesbian Activist on a Secret Mission ...

Consider also the little matter of Fluke’s efforts on behalf of the activist group called Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered Questioning.

Review — titled Employment Discrimination Against LGBTQ Persons.

“A prime example of direct discrimination,” the “gender law” article claims “is:

denying insurance coverage for medical needs of transgender persons physically transitioning to the other gender.”


32 posted on 03/09/2012 9:13:36 AM PST by ebysan (ebysan)
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