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Wednesday, November 7, 2007 12:00 AM

The Internet is making us stupid

Legal sage Cass Sunstein says democracy is the first casualty of political discourse in the digital age.

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  • Wednesday, November 7, 2007 07:36 AM

    Some new ideas, please.

    As my mother once said, you can be a professor and be dumb as a rock.

    There is no middle ground with "moderate" republicans who march in lock step with Tom Delay and vote for an impeachment on constitutionally frivolous grounds. None.

    There is no middle ground with respect to the criminal act committed by the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. None.

    There was no middle ground when the Clintons tried to pass universal health care and the GOP instructed their members not to vote for any compromise, but to bring the whole thing crashing down so as to set them up for the next election. It worked great, and they weren't punished for not being bi-partisan, were they?

    As others have mentioned, anyone so myopic as to be aware of only the charming O'Reilly from his own TV appearances, and ignores the totality of the man's pathological behavior, has nothing valuable to offer.

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