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Politics has the capability to incite flame wars like no other topic does. I dislike flame wars, and I also find that it colors my perception of people to find out they disagree with my political views, making me less likely to trust their opinions in future cases and coloring biases in things totally unrelated to politics. I'm happy to talk politics on the internet, but I'd like to do it in places where politics is the central theme so that induced biases don't cross over into, say... baseball. They say never to talk about religion and politics in polite company. I'd like to think we're in polite company, here.
'Course it's not my blog. Up to Doc, I guess. Just a personal preference.