How Jimmy Carter saved beer
I was on one of these meandering trips around the internet, hopping from link to link and found this great story.
Civil discourse and “tone”
Often when people get into a vigorous debate of ideas, especially with those that disagree with them, it gets derailed by someone complaining about the “tone” of the debate or pleading for “civil discourse”.
As usual, Glenn Greenwald has a brilliant summation of this issue:
…“One other point about this fixation on the “tone” of our politics.