...she's done. It wasn't enough that the 'pie fights' be on the topic of ones loyalty to Obama, now its about how pure we are as progressives, liberals, or left of center rationalists?
Jesus Christ's mother in Nazareth, that's poison we aren't even going to be able to put back in the bottle. Was it a Rovian operative who started this? Was it some idiot without the ability to foresee the fallout? Does it freaking matter?
The animosity between factions on this site is boiling over. When it hits the public sphere, if it hasn't already, the power and influence of the site will start to wane. Before that happens the quality of diaries and threads started will enter a death spiral of the inane, a regressive entrenching of the spiteful, or a frenzy of 'fixed that for you' 'fuck that, fuck you'.
People have a right to air their ideas, unless they're trying to establish some Tychian purity test. We need an Enlightenment Inquisition (hurr hurr hurr) to shut this baloney down and keep the actual ideas/theories/policies/news/info diaries flowing.