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\u00a0 \u00a0 I tend to take such things cum grano salis, as the saying has it. \u00a0 Still, after decades of\u00a0complacent pseudoscientific efforts to portray my religious and political inclinations as the product of psychosocial defects and\/or depravity, it\u2019s amusing to see the shoe on the other foot for once: \u00a0 \u201cLiberals are Simple-Minded\u201d \u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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