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Misplaced Priorities and the Return of the Repressed

Misplaced Priorities and the Return of the Repressed

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Republican Culture of Corruption: 2007 So Far is a pretty good list – see any themes? On this Larry Craig scandal in particular, I’m struck again by how destructive it is when people cannot accept themselves for who they are. There is a strange doubling of the personality. People talk about hypocrisy, but it’s worse than that. It’s worse because it’s a deeper problem than just “not walking the talk.” People who share the traits that you find irritating in…

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Senator Caught In Madam Scandal Plays Victim

Senator Caught In Madam Scandal Plays Victim

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Sometimes when people pretend to be super-righteous in public they turn out to have a secret side – a double of all the things they have repressed and projected outwards in hatred of others. It’s a common phenom. I wonder why it so often takes a sexual flavor… Perhaps it’s a side-effect of the obsession the religious right has with sexuality in general? Right-wing Republican Senator David Vitter is going back to Washington, to pretend nothing has happened. He was…

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