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To: Lane3 who wrote (25405)	7/28/2006 12:05:45 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541780

This amused me. "Oversimplification Link. One thing that would really improve political discourse, and maybe even lead to some better results, would be for all of us to stop oversimplifying issues. Our culture has fallen into a bad habit of trying to turn nearly every subject into a simple duality, with two opposite positions and no gray areas, no third or fourth or fifth possibilities, no troubling ambiguities. It makes life easier in the short run. We don’t have to think, all we have to do is try to yell louder than the obviously evil or crazy people on the other side. But it doesn’t work most of the time. There aren’t many issues that are really that simple, because if they were, they wouldn’t be issues. The only way either liberals or conservatives can turn them into such exercises in obviousness is to omit big parts of the picture, and that guarantees that we’re not seeing it accurately. What a moonbat wanker this guy is. Posted by Todd Pearson at July 26, 2006 02:15 PM Comments Todd, I'm trying to understand what point you are trying to make with the composition of your post, but I don't get it. The way it's laid out, it sounds like you think the writer of your blockquote is a moonbat wanker. FWIW, I think the blockquote makes an awful lot of sense. Posted by: bk at July 26, 2006 02:21 PM The comment was a joke, bk. Too subtle, I guess. Posted by: Todd Pearson at July 26, 2006 05:30 PM By the way, the comment linked to a knee jerk blogger on each side. Malkin calls everybody who doesn't agree with her a "moonbat" and Atrios calls everybody who doesn't agree with him a "wanker." Posted by: Todd Pearson at July 26, 2006 05:32 PM" centristcoalition.com