Comments on: Courtesy and Cosmopolitanism http://bakaitis.com/2009/09/17/courtesy-and-cosmopolitanism/ Equal opportunity employer of small and large words. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:55:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Walt http://bakaitis.com/2009/09/17/courtesy-and-cosmopolitanism/comment-page-1/#comment-37821 Walt Sat, 10 Oct 2009 08:14:18 +0000 http://www.bakaitis.com/?p=2096#comment-37821 Ammusingly enough about 15 min. before I came to peruse the site, I was thinking about how only the "fake" news shows,and roundtables run by commedians actually have discussions about...well,anything,or even debates about any topics, where all "Real News" stations(haha) generally only have shouting matches and/or diatribes by the moderators. Anyway this has been going on consistently since around the time SNL started broadcasting and the right wing got together with the moral majority...and it will likely continue until we die. If just because those who are using such tactics,and generally have no manners,at the very least when they speak to those who do not share their own values, are sure that they have the only "TRUTH" that is actually true,and think that they can 'save' those that do not believe as they do by turning those others into clones of themselves. In a way they have become the beast of which they speak most often....as long as faith/belief/religon holds so many in it's own Iron Chains, civility and manners will become always a victim,often the first victim and next is the bodies of those whom think and act differently. Ammusingly enough about 15 min. before I came to peruse the site, I was thinking about how only the “fake” news shows,and roundtables run by commedians actually have discussions about…well,anything,or even debates about any topics, where all “Real News” stations(haha) generally only have shouting matches and/or diatribes by the moderators. Anyway this has been going on consistently since around the time SNL started broadcasting and the right wing got together with the moral majority…and it will likely continue until we die. If just because those who are using such tactics,and generally have no manners,at the very least when they speak to those who do not share their own values, are sure that they have the only “TRUTH” that is actually true,and think that they can ‘save’ those that do not believe as they do by turning those others into clones of themselves. In a way they have become the beast of which they speak most often….as long as faith/belief/religon holds so many in it’s own Iron Chains, civility and manners will become always a victim,often the first victim and next is the bodies of those whom think and act differently.

]]> By: matt http://bakaitis.com/2009/09/17/courtesy-and-cosmopolitanism/comment-page-1/#comment-37816 matt Fri, 18 Sep 2009 17:14:30 +0000 http://www.bakaitis.com/?p=2096#comment-37816 It feels good to write more often, again. Thanks for sticking around, Jeff! And, I still have a ton of absinthe and your name is still on the list of people to invite along to the party. :) It feels good to write more often, again. Thanks for sticking around, Jeff! And, I still have a ton of absinthe and your name is still on the list of people to invite along to the party. :)

]]> By: Jeff http://bakaitis.com/2009/09/17/courtesy-and-cosmopolitanism/comment-page-1/#comment-37814 Jeff Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:48:36 +0000 http://www.bakaitis.com/?p=2096#comment-37814 This is why thinking conservatives like to talk to Jon Stewart. They get to have actual conversations. Good to see you posting again - sorry it had to be because of an injury. This is why thinking conservatives like to talk to Jon Stewart. They get to have actual conversations.

Good to see you posting again – sorry it had to be because of an injury.

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