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brownback; verb, to pander …

Friday, June 15th, 2007 7:39 am

In the tradition of santorum, comes now brownbacking — a verb that describes pandering to Biblical literalists by casting doubt on evolution and science.

See Spanish Inquisition for the history of the term.

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