re: Oh, yeah. A call for conservative moderation, tolerance and civility from the "Smirking Chimp" web site.
It's sad that your only response to the essay is to try to tar it with an ad homineum/guilt-by-association attack. To be honest, it resonated with me. It describes the macrocosm reflected here in the microcosm of the HabitableZone.
How is any kind of normative political discourse possible in this environment? How is it possible to be civil to people who constantly are placing you under assault? How can there be dialogue when the normative rules of give and take and fair play have not only been flushed down the drain, but chopped into bits and swept out with the tide? Do the advocates of civility place any onus on the nonstop verbal abuse, and absolutely ruthless, win-at-all-costs politics emanating from the conservative quadrant? And do they really expect liberals to refuse to defend themselves, when even doing so gets them accused of further incivility?
This is all too familiar, including the last sentence ironically describing your reaction to the essay.