Remember that: One - George W. Bush was not elected in spite of his lack of intelligence or command of the English language -but because of it.

YES. hahahah YES

And when w would say nucular, his polls went up.

That is when I get depressed the most I think, I mean how can you fix what ails society with the backing of idiots?

Yeah, let us all write what we like to write about.
Then you can come and comment and tell me I am a horse's arse.

Now am I just patting C on the back. Yeah.

Come and get me. hahahaha

As for me, my confirmed opinion is that the only two groups worth speaking to in this society are those with IQ's between 88-97 and those between 156-161.

The rest are knaves, fools and ne'erdowells.

Diversity is the path to survival.

Good post, but not too brilliant. Leaving the "r" out of discourse shows the common touch, and makes up for using "calibre" instead of "caliber" - normally a dead giveaway of wonkery.

Well there was a time when an Atrios comment thread was a place to have an actual policy discussion. That ended some years ago with the wit who invented 'Frist!!!' and Open Threads that draw hundreds of comments within what seems like seconds. Duncan was, with Josh, one of the leaders of the 'There is no Crisis' in Social Security movement in 2005, but when was the last time you saw a real economic policy discussion at Eschaton?

And the same goes for dKos. Despite innovation after innovation in the form of Scoop registry, diaries, Hidden Comments, Trusted Users, rescued diaries all in an attempt to allow quality content to come to the fore the noise always rises to swamp the signal. The front page of dKos has become a combination of topical (Science Friday's) and meta (Diary Rangers) as to not even resemble what it was in 2002 when Kos was actually a blogger and not the master of a vast empire.

As I noted in another TPM meta diary the fundamental problem was summed up by perhaps the most consummate genius of our time, by whom of course I mean Yogi Berra. When asked why no one ever seemed to talk about a previously hot restaurant he explained:

"Nobody goes there anymore. It is too crowded."

Nobody has been able to solve this problem through history, one minute you have an artists' colony and a blink later you have an overrun tourist town. I mean even Knott's Berry Farm used to be a U-Pickem working farm where you could also buy some jam. And Fisherman's Wharf in SF was just that: a working port with a couple of good sea-food restaurants.

The only solution is to become the equivalent of a gated community, which in short order breeds insularity. Okay if you are running a secret society or a country club, not so good if your goal is to foster open and far-reaching debate.