The Village Square

Could we puleeze have grown-up conversations?

Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker wrote about the hubbub around Rush Limbaugh this week. She thinks we should have been talking about something else, like – oh – how the heck you fix what’s broken:

Conservatives of both parties justly fear that too much of the stimulus package is aimed at non-stimulus programs. There’s plenty to criticize, but shouting socialism in a crowded panic room is laughable under the circumstances…

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John Stewart: We’re in bad shape fellas

A provocative – sometimes brilliant, sometimes uncomfortable and sometimes potty-mouthed – screed by John Stewart delivered way back in 2006, targeting the partisan talking-head yapfest that has hurt our important national conversation. To be fair to the talking heads, isn’t it – in fact – the viewers who keep them employed (uh, that would be us)? If we actually watched the most in-depth, civil and factual programs on TV, wouldn’t the networks be clambering to bring more of them to us?

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