Against Civility, Part I

Krugman, as it happens, takes up one aspect of the issue du jour today:

"All this fuss about the rudeness of the Bush administration's critics is an attempt to preclude serious discussion of that administration's policies. For there is no way to be both honest and polite about what has happened in these past three years."

This, however, just scratches the surface of what's wrong with the civility cult. More soon...