An admirer of civil discourse myself, I feel bound to direct you to Michaela Cooper’s posting on Mikarrhea called “Oliver's Army…” Here’s a taste:
“I actually wasn’t trying to bounce my blood pressure into the attic while oublietting my mood and conjuring visions of fighting in an ineluctable, bloody civil war — but somehow I clicked myself here, The Traditional Values Coalition, and that’s exactly what happened.
“Seriously, I think civil war is really likely in this century. This time, though, it’s going to be like the English Civil War, essentially a religious one, pitting those who would maintain and enforce a traditional (biblical, sadistic, American) restriction of pleasures against those who think sadists have no right telling them at gunpoint what pleasures they may and may not enjoy.
“Now I remember how I got to that oozing fetid pustule: I found so unbelievable this story about a movement to repeal government funding for any scientific study having anything to do with sex, sexual orientation, or tracking the spread of AIDS, that I had to track down these assholes to see if it was really true. And it was.”
Posted by Jerome Doolittle at November 01, 2003 07:23 PM