Is That Legal?

But nastiness is often taken as a marketable quality for radio talk-show hosts :-(

As long as you threatened to kick his rebel a**, it was smooth enough.

Liberalism is the outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th Century and the Enlightenment of the 18th--developments that pushed reason and rationality toward the center of human discourse. Without them, we would not have had the scientic and technologial advances we have today, nor the democratic forms of government that we are said to be defending around the world. Conservatism, at least the form that finds liberalism repugnant, is a countermovement that tries to turn the clock back to when religion and autocracy ruled. To call it logical and liberalism irrational is to turn intellectual history on its head.

Dogmatism is infuriating. Insouciance is not the appropriate response.

For me, some variation of "same to you, but twice as much" seems to work well with some folks. Just try not to sputter.

I was on a talk show once with a fundamental Baptist preacher, on a Christian radio station. Ironically, we were supposed to be there for the same purpose. I was trying to set up a Christian group at my school and he was there to criticize the barriers I had to face to do this, which I personally did not believe were that onerous. I wanted to talk about God's love; he wanted to get everyone to repent. The discussion devolved to the point where he told me I was going to hell. I told him that I would see him there. "Bring the marshmellows," I told him, 'cause, preacher, you've got enough hate for all of us in that cold, hard heart."

I was young, 18, and that was one of the funnest and funniest things I have ever done!

Is it just me, or did something post-modern just happen?