11-05-2007, 04:06 PM
Well, Carol, your post seems to have drawn out the usual suspects.
Civility is as old fashioned in America as lace doilies on the back of a divan ---whatever a divan is.
And you are wrong. Incivility is not the product of all political stripes. It is the direct result of those who have a political philosophy --if you can call it a philosophy--that debases the Purple Heart and the Nobel Prize because of antipathy toward a particular recipient who is of the other party. Nevermind that the recipient is an American. You must be in Das Party or you will be destroyed.
As for Punaweb, things are pretty mild mannered here, so I also disagree with your underlying premise. There are some jokers here, but generally they aren't malicious, and you probably would want to have a beer with them, and since Puna is so sparsely populated, you probably will! Remember: That is our criterion for electing Presidents these days: would you want to skip duty in the Armed Services in the middle of a war and have a beer with them in a roadhouse in Alabama?
Edited by - glen on 11/06/2007 06:35:48
Civility is as old fashioned in America as lace doilies on the back of a divan ---whatever a divan is.
And you are wrong. Incivility is not the product of all political stripes. It is the direct result of those who have a political philosophy --if you can call it a philosophy--that debases the Purple Heart and the Nobel Prize because of antipathy toward a particular recipient who is of the other party. Nevermind that the recipient is an American. You must be in Das Party or you will be destroyed.
As for Punaweb, things are pretty mild mannered here, so I also disagree with your underlying premise. There are some jokers here, but generally they aren't malicious, and you probably would want to have a beer with them, and since Puna is so sparsely populated, you probably will! Remember: That is our criterion for electing Presidents these days: would you want to skip duty in the Armed Services in the middle of a war and have a beer with them in a roadhouse in Alabama?
Edited by - glen on 11/06/2007 06:35:48