When Loughner himself speaks and we find out his real influences are Spiderman, 'Gnome Chomsky,' Taylor Swift, and Dr. Bronner, then what?
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Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
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@bobbybaird i'm a writer, so are you. We try to compose our thoughts and words for effect as well as sense. Vain of us? A bit.
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Given Loughner's obsession with meaninglessness and language, maybe Foucault
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Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.
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Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
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This is how it works now with the news: the story begins with a moral, then a narrative is fashioned to support it.
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[T]he anti-vitriol vitriol is getting ugly.
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