Bruce's Blog

From Pandagon comes this great article "In Defense of Cursing":

For some reason, "You're a fucking racist idiot" is a more offensive statement than "black people have less native intelligence than other races, and embrace poverty accordingly". Even worse is the "the major goddamn drain on the budget is the tax cuts, as the federal budget has shown every fucking year since 2002", which simply blows "the tax cuts have increased revenue, because that's the power of fiscal conservatism" out of the water. A lie, an insult, a grossly racist imputation is afforded legitimacy because it's said nicely.

I also do it because I find the conservative blogosphere to be one of the most closed-minded, insular, circular pits of denial I've ever encountered. The ringleader of the group has been calling those of us who are anti-war traitors going on three years at this point.

You want to break into the message drivers and actually have a debate? [snip] You're a little bit more likely to enter in to some form of dialogue with them if you piss them off than if you pretend they care about having an honest debate.

The article matches my experiences and is well worth reading for insight into how the two sides regard each other online.