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Basic principles for commenting: Keep it civil. Criticize ideas, not the people expressing them.

Vigorous discussion of differing opinions is both welcome and encouraged. Ad hominem attacks – whether on the author of the original clip, on other clippers, or on me – will be deleted and reposted in disemvoweled form. I subscribe to the Living Room Doctrine – if you wouldn't say it to me or a fellow guest while sitting in my living room, don't say it here.

Why disemvowel?

…one of the points of disemvowelment is that anyone who so chooses can reconstruct the comment and see what was said. Deletion leaves room to wonder. If you're concerned that…comments which were merely dissenting with the opinion of the host, rather than rude, were being altered you're quite free to reconstruct the comments and see for yourself.

Civil speech and impassioned speech are not opposed and mutually exclusive sets.

And yes, I have an official moderator's seal of authority.

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