[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by Ike Bana

I was once a member of the Capitol Hill Coffeehouse forum. For some years, actually.

It was, and still is (what's left of it) a bastion of conservative thought. And there were enough cons that it provided a full range of cons, from the George Will school of actual historians, to your typical teabag/Coulter types, although there weren't any teabaggers in those days. The latter members were pretty much 5 below radio gasbag mirror types. But as you were butting heads on the other end of the continuum (where there was actually some intellectual curiosity happening) it was fun, people were thinking, processing, and beating each other's brains out. A few of these people became pretty good friends at the time...as dead wrong as they were.

Sounds like a pretty good model tho' I often wonder which planet George Will returns to in the evening after work.