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• in Politics
  The Right Wing Celebration of 'Dumbassery' and the Danger it Presents to America
  It's not being a dumbass that's the problem. Being proud of it. That's the problem.
  by parkypundit / on Jan 17, 2011
• in Politics
  Tea Party Leader Says Giffords Shooting "Her Own Fault" While Limbaugh Says America Doesn't NEED to Live Up to the Ideals of a 9-year Old Girl
  What were WE thinking? It was GABBY's fault. No change or civility needed, thank you!
  by parkypundit / on Jan 14, 2011
• in Politics
  Meghan McCain Nails It, Almost
  Her hatred for needless extremism is well deserved. But how do we combat it?
  by sussman / on May 10, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “civility”

 

• Can a Social Media Site be Civil, Anonymous, and Positive?

  
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  At a time when social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter have been criticized for fostering a lack of civility online, Fastnote is demonstrating that a site featuring civil and anonymous comments can be a force for good Announced just over a month ago, Fastnote is rapidly proving that people have something to ...
  6 days ago

• Humankind Cannot Bear Very Much Reality

  
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  The other day my Right Wing Acquaintance Number One linked to this lament about President Obamas thuggishness, because "It has been reported that the Obama campaign this year, as in 2008, has disabled or chosen not to use AVS in screening contributions made by credit card."  The writer, Michael Barone, blamed it ...
  2 weeks ago

• "Well take out Scott Walker."

  
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  Says AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.
  2 weeks ago

• A Useful Political Pledge

  
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  If it caught on, this one—unlike Grover’s —might actually help solve some of our political problems. Call it “The Basic Civility Pledge.” Feel free to share! Photo by Gage Skidmore Filed under: Media , Politics Tagged: Conor Williams , Grover Norquist , Mitt Romney , The Basic Civility Pledge
  3 weeks ago

• A frustrating performance by Dan Savage

  
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  On Sunday night I went to hear Dan Savage speak about the It Gets Better Project . The last time I saw him was 2003, if memory serves, in front of a crowd of perhaps a hundred. At one point Savage took a break from promoting his new book Skipping Toward Gomorrah to refer his audience to the now-famous New Republic ...
  3 weeks ago

• Now Dan Savage Attacks The Pope

  
  The Conservative Review — Authority: 429
  Foul-mouthed, “anti-bullying” bully (and a great reason to hate gays if you were never inclined to) Dan Savage went after the Pope just days after attacking Christian teenagers and the Bible (H/T The Blaze).  Warning:  Graphic Language.    Just to clarify, I don’t hate gays and most conservatives don’t ...
  3 weeks ago

• Barriers to Critical Thinking

  
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  Effective Thinking has some thoughts on the barriers to critical thinking. Excerpt: The best critical thinking education available provides learners with the opportunity to acquire new thinking aptitudes  and thinking attitudes. [...] Yet in many cases, bright would-be critical thinkers still find themselves ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dan Savage: Anti-Bullying Speaker In Fact Anti-Christian Bully…And Coward.

  
  The Conservative Review — Authority: 429
  Dan Savage is well known for being a loud-mouthed Christian-bashing jerk, unless you’re a liberal, in which case he’s a hero of the “LGBT community.”  He regularly releases vulgar attacks on anyone who doesn’t believe as he does, his most infamous attack being the Google bomb on Rick Santorum.  He was at ...
  3 weeks ago

• Obamas Anti-Bullying Ally, Dan Savage, Bullies Teenage Christians, Calls the Bible "Bull$h*t"

  
  Marooned In Marin — Authority: 590
  This is sickening!Gay activist Dan Savage was brought in to a national high school journalism conference as speaker against bullying in schools.Instead, Savage began to bully students who were Christian, even calling the Holy Bible "bullshit." (Todd Starnes, Fox News).Savage was supposed to be delivering a speech ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mississippi Governor Claims Liberals’ “One Mission In Life Is To Abort Children”

  
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  Such are the yokels who get elected to public office in places like Mississippi: Days after he signed a law that would effectively shut down his state’s only remaining abortion-performing clinic, Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant accused Democrats of having one mission in life: “to abort children.” “The ...
  4 weeks ago

• 10 Steps Towards Bridging Our Painful Racial Divide

  
  YWCA USA Blog — Authority: 423
  by Margaret A. Mitchell President & CEO, YWCA Greater Cleveland Margaret Mitchell The year was 1937. My mother and her sisters were playing in the front yard of their Greensborough, North Carolina, home when a speeding delivery truck jumped the soft earthen curb, hitting and killing three-year-old Anita ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Self-Worth and Feminism

  
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  [Content note: Discussion of abusive behaviors] In relation to my recent MRA post , an anti-feminist dude recently informed me: "You have a greater sense of self-worth than Id imagined." That sense of self-worth, I was to believe, was a Very Bad Thing. LOL. I bring it up because this particular ...
  4 weeks ago

• Democrat Party Chair: Timothy McVeigh Would Have Been A Tea Partier

  
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  This must be more of that civility the Democrats are always lecturing us about. Something tells me Obama won’t be scheduling a beer summit for this one, though. The chairman of the Oklahoma Democratic Party is refusing to back down from comments he made that likened convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy ...
  4 weeks ago

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  Silence on Left Wing Lynch Mobs. "Occupy DOJ" activists calls for "Occupiers" to "start killing motherfuckers." Mob of African-Americans "lynch" white guy as "payback" for Trayvon Martin. As Treacher observes : Hey, that’s what he gets for having a similar skin color to someone we’ve all been instructed ...
  4 weeks ago

• MRAs: Just Trust Us On This, K?

  
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  [Content note: MRA aggression, eliminationist rhetoric] Got into a fun convo with some MRAs in the comment section of a truly craptastic MRA article called "Why the US Economy is Biased Against Men" that The Atlantic , for some reason, decided to publish. Echidne, per usual, does an admirable job of countering ...
  4 weeks ago

• About Austrian economics

  
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  I find Steve Horwitz , along with George Selgin (prominent advocate of free banking and supporter of a productivity norm [pdf] for monetary policy), the most accessible of contemporary Austrian school economists as they are both clear writers who seek to engage with those who are not of their school and are ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Meaning of Nice: How Compassion and Civility Can Change Your Life (And the World)

  
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  Nice.  On its own, the word “nice” can carry a variety of tones.  It can imply “good” or “generous;” on the other hand, if it is used sarcastically, it can imply the complete opposite.  How much time have you spent pondering the real meaning behind this word?  Joan Duncan Oliver does just that in ...
  4 weeks ago

• NRMA survey shows rising aggro on the roads. Could "please be nice" signs help? ...(audio)

  
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  Sandy Aloisi spoke to NRMA boss Wendy Minchin
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• The Pledges We Need

  
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  “No new taxes.”  The pledge has had a baleful effect on government, reducing Congress’s ability to problem-solve and foreclosing broad-ranging discussion of how best to increase the revenues that an established government needs. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the parties could be persuaded to take other sorts ...
  4 weeks ago

• Whos the More Loony, The Loon, Or the Major Political Party/Movement Who Thinks the Loon Is Cool & Gives Him a Platform & Is Delighted with His Endorsement?

  
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  I tend to agree with Roy about Ted Nugent talking crazy shit . But then again, well, the title of this post. The Nuge, frankly, is not all that far out there by right-wing standards. Yeah, hes going to talk crazy shit, but then again, stuff like this -- "I spoke at the NRA and will stand by my speech. Its 100 ...
  5 weeks ago

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