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  • Gabfest Team please help my education

    I was very interested in your section today on the debate over Executive Privilege, but I'm rather confused by the Constitutional origination of the idea. I know that certain things are tacked on to the commerce clause to justify any number of things, but I reread Articles I and II this morning and I didn't see anything that jumped out as ''this ...
    Posted to Gabfest by Blackferne on July 13, 2007

  • Birth order effects disappearing?

    One of the problems with studying birth order effects - and the reason why our results may not match some older beliefs/studies - is that children are not raised together anymore. With so many kids in daycare, young children spend most of their waking hours in the care of others surrounded by children other than their siblings. Instead of ...
    Posted to Family by playingtrix on June 27, 2007

  • My favorite Jewish mothers

    In David Plotz' Exodus Bible Blog, he wrote: Baby Moses floats in wicker basket and is rescued by Pharaoh's daughter, who then pays his own mother to raise him. That's it. I responded at the time that there was so much more going on in this exchange and Emily Bazelon's Jewish Mother article reminded me why I love this story. (They truly did ...
    Posted to Family by bright_virago on June 15, 2007

  • Is the Jewish Mother a Eastern character finding a home?

    That folk tale about the mother offering letting her son take her heart, and when it falls asking her son if he's alright - I've heard it in four different languages and five different countries. The furthest east was in Punjab when I was in india, when my freinds granny told me it, The furthest west by a Chechen mother in London. The common ...
    Posted to Family by DirectHex on June 14, 2007

  • Photos from the Gabfest Studios

    Hey guys and gals, Can you get us some photos from the tiny closet that is the Slate Political Gabfest Studios? I imagine a wildly dynamic and animated Emily Bazelon downing her 3rd glass of wine. Then of course David Plotz who is able to undercut with shrewed wryness the witty banter placed before him, i'm sure we might catch him rolling his ...
    Posted to Gabfest by SailorJ on June 4, 2007
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