Bad behavior? Blame the Internet!

The Internet, with its Twitter and Facebook and Craigslist, et al, is destroying society; surely you’ve heard.

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Do we really care about our fellow Americans any more?

Have we become so hardened that we don't really care about our fellow American any more? What about the homeless families who are not opining on this tonight? Do we care about them, whatever reason they are homeless? Or do we parse on that, laying blame?

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Civility

Civility

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Seems like Oxycodone still rules Rush's brain. And to the FCC, bring civility back to the talk show hosts on radio and TV. Is it time to cut the legs out from under the right wing media and their distortions?

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Why uncivil behavior in public debate is counterproductive and should be discouraged as strongly as possible.

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This is the Obama story. Right from the get-go, Americans were attracted to a man who was more collaborative than combative. The country liked a man who fashioned himself as a healer. And yet there has always been this underlying anxiety.

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Has half of America suddenly become racists in the past 8 months? What's happened to civility in politics?

There have been many variations of this discussion recently, but they haven't seemed to do much good. So I'll make another attempt with this article to interject sane reasoning back into our political discussions.

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Joe Wilson, congressman, argued that Joe Wilson, chucklehead, should not be formally rebuked.

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We've had a rough couple of weeks when it comes to athletes. And the theory goes that trash talking, poor sportsmanship and berating officials is now an acceptable part of competitive sports culture.

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What do you-all think, folks? Are we all just a bunch of hopeless rabble, or can we regain our respect for one another? And if so, how? (Beliefnet's got some new features on teaching kids respect, by the way, if you want to check them out.

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Question: is President Obama also now to be lumped among the uncivil cretins at whom we wag shocked moral fingers? Or, was his comment, whether you agree with it or not, acceptable because it was never meant to enter the public discourse?

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In a Facebook post responding to President Obama's speech last night, Sarah Palin said that Obama's debunking of the "death panel" smear -- which she has propagated -- showed a lack of civility:

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Just Stop It! Everyone! No more name calling! Our Presidents are not Hitler!

Saw this posted the other day on a Facebook status:

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excerpt: ""Sarah Palin, private citizen, responded to Obama's speech on her Facebook page last night with the usual mix of bluster and aggrievement, claiming Obama's rebuttal of her "death panel" falsehood demonstrated a lack of "civility." ""

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As the world braces for a second wave of the swine flu that broke out in the spring and resulted in the deaths of more than 2,100 people worldwide, the disease is altering long-established patterns of everyday greeting. Handshakes have been cut short, kisses aborted.

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We seem to have forgotten how to disagree without being disagreeable.

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WASHINGTON -- During live television coverage of the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, novelist Gore Vidal famously called William F.

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By Sam Youngman Posted: 08/07/09 03:40 PM [ET] As violent confrontations and controversial rhetoric surrounding healthcare town hall meetings escalated, the White House on Friday called for civility.

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Remember kindergarten and first grade? You may not think you remember — for some of us that was a long time ago — but you do. The lessons are engrained in all of us, or ought to be.

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When one side of a debate considers open, honest discussion to be the enemy, it says quite a bit about the integrity of their argument.

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Many conservative evangelical Christians seem to be making a renewed commitment to "civility."

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Politics and the Supreme Court

liberals were in an uproar about the treatment of sotomayor in congress, but they have a faulty memory of recent supreme court nominees.

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This is a great piece on a thorny issue. I'm involved in Newsvine and other forums because of my job, but not at all sure that I would be otherwise for this very reason.

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Let's start with the egghead part. The stimulus bill is based on Keynesian theory, which I'll briefly explain in the condescending manner we liberals so enjoy using. When we're in a severe recession, good productive capacity goes to waste.

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President Barack Obama's electoral success has much to do with his grasp of the American mood. Democratic and Republican Americans coexist peacefully every day and are unanimously disgusted by the increasingly negative tone of our politics.

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The Fall-Winter 2008 issue of Oregon Humanities is all about civility—that virtue too often confused with its less polished cousin, politeness.

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