Last week, I wrote a diary about how much fun it can be--not to mention helpful to the cause--to leave Daily Kos occasionally to go where, as they might say in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the vamps are, and get into the middle of some real ideological scuffles with the enemy. Of course this is a bit difficult partly because well--have you guys been out there on the internets? Your typical commenter at aol.com is hardly Jerome a Paris or Meteor Blades.
Part of this is the nature of internet discourse, yes--but part of it is also demonstrative of where Republican politics are this year. Faux scandal, manufactroversy, and McCarthyism is pretty much all the arrows in their quiver right now. So good luck even finding someone in most of these places who will even debate you on tax policy.
But then--amid all that squalor--there's economist.com, repository of the choicest delights: