Communicating in a respectful manner? Sure, why not.

Communicating in an intelligent manner? I gather that you feel readily comfortable assigning a value to a person’s intelligence and aptitude. I have also been called in here utterly illogical. Apparently the lesson as delivered by my betters is that some ideology and doctrine is of material superiority to my view of the world.

Uh-oh that damn tone again.

As for banning, do whatever you want. This is your living room.

Or, perhaps, the post and Jeff are not as stupid as your comments imply, in which case it’s a waste of everyone’s else’s time for you to leave comments here.

The third alternative would be for you to try to find a way of communicating your disagreement that is actually respectful and intelligent. This is the only alternative, by the way, that gives me a reason not to ban you.

According to Jeff the appointment of Judge Alito was a disaster of epic proportions. This opinion apparently has genesis in either Jeff’s deep-seated hatred of George W. Bush or Jeff’s ideological differences with Samuel Alito.

Is there more to the equation?

The first part of your comment reveals a near total ignorance of any kind of change in the political environment of the USA over the last 15 to 20 years.

The second part of your comment… Well, dumb doesn’t begin to cover it. Either you just don’t understand the post at all or you’re failing in an attempt to be clever. Either way, I actually feel that I’ve become less knowledgeable for reading that.

Senate vote for Ruth Bader Ginsburg in the summer of 1993: 96 to 3.

I gather the firebreathing GOP was asleep at the wheel.

“ 4. This, of course, meant that there were more conservative Catholic men of Italian descent from New Jersey on the court (2) than women of any ideological stripe (1), despite the fact that women make up 51 percent of Americans, and conservative Catholic men of Italian descent from New Jersey make up a somewhat smaller percentage. “

What part here do you object to:

1) Some folk are Catholic.
2) Some folk are men.
3) Some folk are conservative (whatever that media shorthand means).
4) Some folk are of Italian decent.
5) Some folk are from New Jersey
6) Catholic men of Italian decent from New Jersey and entirely unable, indeed insensitive and probably too stooooooopid to interpret the Constitution in a manner worthy of it’s quality as a document which protects the self evident value of human life, whereas a woman of any ideological stripe is naturally more inclined to support the annual, casual, licentious, convenient destruction of one and a half million human lives which/who reside at varying degrees of development.

Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.