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Civil Discourse And The Intentional Conversation

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living

Read More: Marymount, Kanye West, Joseph Biden, Joe Wilson, Conversation, Intentional Conversation, Serena Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Partisanship, Joseph Crowley, Political Incivility, Civility, Civil Discourse, Barack Obama, Relationships, Living News
Hoyt Hilsman

What is an Intentional Conversation? Stated simply: It is a structured conversation with no purpose other than the conversation itself.

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Spreading Positive Social Epidemics

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Twitter, Yom Kippur, Social Change, Sustainable Food, Health Care, Civility, Living News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

We need an epidemic of civility, we need to redouble our efforts to teach our children respect, honor, kindness and goodness.

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The Damage that Time has Done

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.22.2009 | Media

Read More: Right Wing Media, Att, Time, Hitler, Time Magazine, Princess Diana, Sprint, Right Wing, Obama, Political News, Civility, Rucker, Joe the Nerd, Assassination, Israeli Politics, Beck, Fox News, Fox, Comcast, Glenn Beck, Right-Wing Extremism, Color of Change, Political Incivility, Katie Couric, CBS News, Media News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

Time's cover is the beginning of a rehab job for Glenn Beck. The magazine is trying once again to make it okay for people to sponsor this "person".

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Say Something Nice

Libby Mitchell | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Dooce, Chickenliver, Civility, Heather Armstrong, Bloggers, Blogging, Living News
Libby Mitchell

Please, bloggers, just because you can say something, just because it makes you feel a part of an online "family or "clique" doesn't mean you should say it.

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Curb Your Enthusiasm: Live From Capitol Hill

Nancy Snow | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Moscone, Dan White, Rush Limbaugh, Nancy Pelosi, Civility, Political Violence, Glenn Beck, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Political Rhetoric, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Political Incivility, Harvey Milk, Politics News
Nancy Snow

Many Americans are talking back to government, some more viciously than the majority, but Pelosi's broad brush seems to paint all Obama administration critics as potential violent offenders and inciters.

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Remember What Civility Was? A Book to Remind Us

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civility, News Media, Cable Tv, President Obama, Urban Worrier, Frank Gruber, Santa Monica-California, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News
Frank Schaeffer

Urban Worrier is an extraordinary book about an ordinary life as lived in extraordinary times. How I wish voices like Frank Gruber's were the voices of politics and argument we were hearing on cable TV!

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Hey, I Got Your Civility Right Here, Champ!

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 11.15.2009 | Media

Read More: Teabaggers, Bullying, Bullies, Obama, Kayne, Civility, American Idol, Joe Wilson, Joe the Nerd, Politics, Smerconish, Nancy Grace, Breaking Politics News, Glenn Beck, Bachmann, Simon, Springer, Media News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

I hope that President Obama calling people out on the incivilities will lessen the rewards for acting like a dope. Whether the Kanye comment was leaked or not, we all need to just start calling this behavior for what it is.

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An Invitation to Redemption for Joe Wilson and Van Jones

Patty Limerick | Posted 11.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Van Jones, Public Servants, Apology, Redemption, Resignation, Civility, You Lie, South Carolina, Center of the American West, University of Colorado, Joe Wilson, Denver News
Patty Limerick

The American people have an unfortunate habit of taking valuable public servants who have made stupid public statements and forming an instant bucket-brigade to deliver those public servants to the trash heap of history.

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Do We Still Have a 'Civil' Society?

Michael Kaiser | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Civility, Royal Opera House, Politics News
Michael Kaiser

It is time for those of us who care about intelligent discourse, who refuse to see our country devolve into a scene from Lord of the Flies, to fight back and assert our majority view.

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The Health Care Debate: Expecting of Ourselves What We Demand From Our Children

John Milewski | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: United States Congress, Joint Session of Congress, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Rep. Joe Wilson, Health Care, Accountability, Public Policy Debate, Healthcare, Civility, Politics News
John Milewski

Representative Joe Wilson shouted at the president in a manner usually reserved for town hall meetings. But this was no town meeting, but instead a formal gathering of Congress.

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The Teddy Imperative: It is Not Just about Health Care

Bennet Kelley | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Orrin Hatch, President Ken, Senator Edward Kennedy, Health Care, Ted Kennedy Dead, Civility, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

The Senate's Last Lion roars no more, but "the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."

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Ours Is a Rude Age, but Have A Nice Day

Janet Kinosian | Posted 09.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Good Manners, Civility, Manners, Why Good Manners Are Important, Bad Manners, Living News
Janet Kinosian

He says even the trend toward casual and sloppy attire cries out to be rethought. "People appear in public in clothes that must scare the hangers in a dark closet," he writes.

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Lean Times At United

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.21.2009 | Business

Read More: Seating, Obesity, Civility, United Airlines, Airline Travel, United Changing Fat People, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

The bottom line on our bottoms is this: As a nation, we're getting fatter even as the space assigned to us on airplanes is getting smaller and smaller -- as their margins shrink too.

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A Tribute to Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Gentle Giant

Bennet Kelley | Posted 02.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rhode Island, Claiborne Pell, National Endowment for the Arts, Civility, Pell Grants, Claiborne Pell Obituary, Claiborne Pell Grants, Politics News
Bennet Kelley

With Claiborne Pell's death, Rhode Islanders have lost their gentle giant and the nation has lost a distinguished public servant who did more to make us a modern Athens than any other man of his era.

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Political Hysteria: Call for Immediate Pre-Election Calming

Diane Perlman | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Fear, 2008 Campaign Rhetoric, Political Propaganda, Attack Ads, Violence Prevention, Civility, Political Hysteria, Election Anxiety, Living News
Diane Perlman

Let's all bring out the best in ourselves, our leaders, and our celebrities to raise the level of discourse and create a contagion of calming to allow us to bring out the best in our country.

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Hurricane Gustav And A Storm Of Civility

Nicholas Brown | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Diary of an Aspiring New Yorker, Afghanistan, 2008 Election, Civility, Hurricane Gustav, Conventioneering, Home News
Nicholas Brown

The networks are furiously chattering about what might constitute a political misstep during the hurricane and, in a lucky turn, it's made both McCain and Obama act like civilized people.

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