What do you suppose today's enforcers of proper decorum would say to this?

[kpete]

Americans too often teach their children to despise those
who hold unpopular opinions. We teach them to regard as
traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do
not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we
are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign
to it and out of place - the delivery of our political
conscience into somebody else's keeping....
 — Mark Twain

the rest (great post):
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/ritual-defamation-part-xxiv-liberals.html

[Luminous Animal]

1. Another great one from digby. Well worth reading in its entirety.

An aside...
I had no idea that Pam Geller held her anti-Muslim hate fest while the 9/11 political festivities were going on.

What a piece of shit Geller is.
http://thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/on-911-pamela-gellers-anti-islam-hate-group-protests-at-ground-zero/politics/2011/09/12/26812

[Maven]

2. I like: "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

(Abraham Lincoln)

[Demeter]

3. I'd say that Modern GOPism puts that theory to rest.

There's so much vice, that the virtues have been discarded entirely due to lack of space.