The spiral works like this. A serious discussion gets interrupted by a half-baked head-in-lower-GI remark by an ill-informed sniper. A reaction sets in in which said sniper is excoriated, chastised, corrected, calumnified or roundly dismissed with humor or without. The serious discussion is by this time so derailed it takes several posts to get it started again.

I heard Michele give her talk at the DNC. It was quite excellent--simple, passionate, straightforward and very well-delivered.

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