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  • Dr. Helen agrees: "When Robert Kennedy called the state mental hospitals "snakepits," he must never have imagined the problems he would unleash into our communities.

    "I am Jiverly Wong shooting the people." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Amazing how the liberal snakepits of academia Hahvahd and Yale keep turning out utterly nefarious nimrods like Joel Kaplan.

    Firedoglake » Bolten’s Five Point Rehab Plan? A Whole Lotta… 2006

  • In "A Quiet Flame," Detective Bernie Gunther repeatedly pokes his stick into Nazi-infested snakepits.

    daytondailynews.com - News 2009

  • Indeed, by World War II mental hospitals were identified as “snakepits,” to use the title of Mary Jane Ward’s famous and influential novel.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

  • Indeed, by World War II mental hospitals were identified as “snakepits,” to use the title of Mary Jane Ward’s famous and influential novel.

    The Mad Among Us Gerald N. Grob 1994

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