Bloggingheads sucks. It sucks immensely. It sucks utterly. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I wish it had never happened, and I wish it would die.
All it's done is to make blogs seem like C-Span 2 only more interminable. It's fucking stupid. In actual blogs, someone can, you know, link to something in the course of discussion -- on bloggingheads, whee, no references. Bloggingheads is less informative than blogging. It takes what's good about blogs, removes it, and leaves what's worst about MSNBC. This is not progress. This is crap.
More than that, the site ends up reinforcing the ridiculous notion that every issue, like torture, or unprovoked war, or global climate change, has "two sides." The high school debate model of public discourse has been so perverted as to become itself a perversion. I shit on it from a great height. Fucking Erick Erickson telling Jane Hamsher "I don't believe watrerboarding is torture"... Jane did a great job cornering his smarmy Cracker Barrel night manager ass, but what the FUCK! Why is this even the topic of "polite" conversation, online or anywhere else?
Nobody is ever outraged, passionate, venomous -- it all reinforces the asinine and debilitating notion that political debates are some sort of polite parlor game. Or some sort of spectator sport, waiting for someone to totally lose it in a comical fashion (see Althouse, Ann).
Fuck civility, fuck Bloggingheads, fuck this taming of the shrill. Notice how no one on a Bloggingheads ever says "fuck"?
If you can't say "fuck," I'm not coming to your new media revolution.