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Teresa Nielsen Hayden has a great post about blogging and comment moderation at Making Light. Here are the final two paragraphs: Anonymous nastiness is easy to write, and will always find an appreciative audience. I don't care. It's not a manifestation of the free and open discourse of the internet; it's a thing that destroys that discourse. To be specific, it's the same old trashmouthed bullying we all know from junior high and high school. Putting it on the net doesn't cause it to ...

As Teresa Nielsen Hayden put it, "I hate it when the government makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist." Even so, I will confess that I have long harbored the notion that the anthrax letters were a Bush Administration scheme to provoke a war against Iraq-- and then the planes hit. By that time the anthrax plan was in motion, so they went with it. The targets were journalists and Democrats, and the WMD pretext was one that they obviously had in mind. I reckoned from the day ...

... Catholics prefer a cafeteria plan has as well. No doubt there are other contributing factors, but the plain fact is that there really aren't any Catholic intellectuals who are participating in a meaningful way to the broader discourse. It's become a closed system. From Teresa Nielsen Hayden I have have now learned two things. One is that the Pope has issued a new encyclical, and that it says many good things. You could ...