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  • Infantilism harkening back to false notions that just having words written saying rights exist means that those freedoms are "free" and magically inviolable by enemy.

    One man's "justice nerve" is another man's "collectivist nerve." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Infantilism: the happy-talk that blinds the other 4 piggies to their predicament

    Archive 2008-12-01 Lemon Hound 2008

  • Infantilism: the happy-talk that blinds the other 4 piggies to their predicament

    Neoliberal Poetry? Lemon Hound 2008

  • Cedarford said: "Infantilism harkening back to false notions that just having words written saying rights exist means that those freedoms are 'free' and magically inviolable by enemy."

    One man's "justice nerve" is another man's "collectivist nerve." Ann Althouse 2008

  • It's a form of Adult Infantilism, if I may make full use of my psych learning from TV psychobabble-ists.

    Frank Rich promotes Barack Obama. Ann Althouse 2007

  • [7] His three papers, which appeared in the Medical Record, New York, in the issues of February 7 and 8, and March 8 1914, are entitled: (1) "Some Observations upon the Etiology of Mental Torticollis," (2) "A Further Study upon Mental Torticollis as a Psychoneurosis," and (3) "Remarks upon Mental Infantilism in the Tic Neurosis."

    The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1916

  • The ONLY reason that an elected official's sexual behavior would be of ANY consequence in any election would be if that official ran as a "Family Values" christian conservative, and then was caught frequenting a prostitute to live out his Paraphilic Infantilism fantasies.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The ONLY reason that an elected official's sexual behavior would be of ANY consequence in any election would be if that official ran as a "Family Values" christian conservative, and then was caught frequenting a prostitute to live out his Paraphilic Infantilism fantasies.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The ONLY reason that an elected official's sexual behavior would be of ANY consequence in any election would be if that official ran as a "Family Values" christian conservative, and then was caught frequenting a prostitute to live out his Paraphilic Infantilism fantasies.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

  • The ONLY reason that an elected official's sexual behavior would be of ANY consequence in any election would be if that official ran as a "Family Values" christian conservative, and then was caught frequenting a prostitute to live out his Paraphilic Infantilism fantasies.

    AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed 2010

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