What is your favorite reference to this blog in a comment thread over at Lindsay Beyerstein’s blog Majikthise?
Interesting question! I suppose it would have to be Gordo’s response to Lindsay’s pointer to my Tacitus Disapproval of last weekend, in which comment Gordo says: What I found most amusing was that Clarke’s piece, entitled “Fuck your Civility,” is completely civil. He doesn’t rant at Trevino, or accuse him, Goldstein-style, of trying to stick his finger in a dog’s ass (I never understood that particular Goldsteinism). He merely argues that Trevino and others on the right advocate terrible things, things like invasions and bombings and degradation of the planet. Things like keeping health care from the poor and forcing women to take unwanted pregnancies to term. Things like racism and anti-Muslim bigotry. You can’t say Clarke is being uncivil just because he says that right wingers pushed for an unnecessary war in Iraq, or because he points out that the war has brought misery and death to Iraqis. So it turns out that Clarke is such a nice guy, he winds up being civil even when he’s tryin
What is your favorite reference to this blog in a comment thread over at Lindsay Beyerstein’s blog Majikthise?