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But now that I have your attention, let’s talk about education. God has just spoken to you, as unto Solomon. God will grant you one request for fixing the nation’s education system. Which of these do you choose? Preview Open

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Contributor Post Created with Sketch. Why I Joined Ricochet Is Not Why I Stayed

 

shutterstock_234489694I first heard of Ricochet from that sophisticated salon of ideas known as Twitter. I had long been a fan of Peter Robinson’s thoughtful insights and Rob Long’s smart wit, but what set their website apart was the goal of civility. Web traffic is great, making money is wonderful, but the rarest commodity online is intelligent discussion.

Like many Ricochet readers, I had belonged to several internet fora and found civility at none. Whether it was a general news site, a no-opinions-barred political community, or a strictly conservative outlet, each was riddled with infighting, trolling and personal invective. Inadvertently tick off an admin and be swamped with profanity for days. Tell an ill-timed joke and get your IP address blocked. (In my defense, it was a pretty great joke.)

I didn’t know if Robinson and Long could pull it off, but I knew I wanted to be there if they did. There would finally be a “safe space” where like-minded souls and I could discuss those ideas which we agreed upon. What a breath of fresh air.

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Nanda is gone (if not gone yet, she is definitely leaving). I keep thinking of her as a canary in our coal mine, so to speak. What does it mean if somebody like Nanda, who was clearly a pillar of this community, feels driven away? Did the “canary” “die”? What should we do when the […]

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1. Renewing my license at the DMV 2. All the sand that gets in the car after a family visit to the beach Preview Open

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No business venture ever quite goes where you expected, and the further out you try to project the more wrong you will be. This is why business plans are a riot to read – they are full of airy projections that ultimately all boil down to “we will survive and make money, somehow, now go […]

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Fruitcake score is a phrase I just coined to discuss the subjective evaluations Ricochet editors must make on a day to day basis. A higher “score” means a post is more likely to be taken down under this COC reg: Anything that makes the Ricochet Community look like a bunch of radical fruitcakes. Preview Open

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A little bloodletting is good for a body. I understand the spleen is strengthened by the body losing a little blood. The immune system is also healthier with (the right amount) of blood loss. Peter and Rob: Thanks for all the good that you have brought into my life. Preview Open

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Remember the first time you dropped by Ricochet? You followed a link from Facebook or Twitter; or maybe it was an email from your college buddy. When you finished that article, you browsed a few others and liked what you saw.

A co-worker recommended the flagship podcast, so you subscribed to that and added a couple of the other podcasts a little later. Much like the articles, you were surprised at the intelligence, humor, and grace, even when dealing with contentious issues. The hosts and guests weren’t screaming at each other like they do on cable news or screaming at you like so much talk radio. Instead, you found something that was missing online: an actual discussion.

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So, I was in the other room and caught myself singing an old Ray Stevens song: Here he comes. Lookatdat Lookatdat!There he goes. Lookatdat Lookatdat!And he ain’t wearin’ no clothes! Given several of Ray Stevens’ recent efforts, one might suspect that he is on the right side of the aisle. And I thought, “I would […]

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For those of you writing impassioned arguments supporting the “White Pride” billboard…you really need to stop. There is no justification for it, no matter how much pretzel twisting mental gymnastics you need to do to get yourself there. “White Pride” is a phrase associated with the most vile, repugnant segments of our society, game over. […]

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Five-Ways-You-Can-Help-Save-the-PlanetYes, this is yet another pitch for new members. We know you’re out there — you folks who read Ricochet, listen to the podcasts, even support our advertisers. And that’s great — we really appreciate it. But the core of our business is membership. It’s not just the money (although that’s obviously great), it’s the posts that members write and the comments they make. That’s what really runs this place. Plus, if you’re not a member, you’re missing out on the best part of Ricochet — the world famous Member Feed.

The Ricochet Member Feed is quite simply the most unique community on the web. Members post on any topic and great conversations ensue. How great? Well, I’ll let you all in on something of a trade secret: When we put together the rundown for our podcasts, the first place we look the Member Feed. It’s simply the best place to understand what’s in the zeitgeist at any given moment.

So please; help me help you. Join Ricochet today and get your first month free. Then, post or comment on the Member Feed so we can recycle your thoughts on our podcasts. It’s the green thing to do.

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Everyone has at least one personal story, the details of which dramatically changed the way he or she experiences life. For some of us, the tale begins with a choice, for others an unexpected or unwelcome event. To demonstrate the depth and breadth of experience here at Ricochet, will you share your best story in […]

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Previously on Let Us All Get to Know Each Other it was a trip down memory lane to 2010, now it is time to reintroduce some blasts from the pasts that Ricochet produced in 2011. The year 2011, what an exciting time to be alive. OBL finally met his well earned fate becoming fish food, […]

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Sometimes I find myself clicking on a post, only to realize that I’m not really interested in the topic but rather the author and what the author has to say. If the author has written a long post, I almost certainly will not read the entire thing, but I will make an effort to ascertain […]

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C. S. Lewis – The Four Loves: It is… easy to see why Authority frowns on Friendship. Every real Friendship is a sort of secession, even a rebellion. It may be a rebellion of serious thinkers against accepted clap-trap or of faddists against accepted good sense; of real artists against popular ugliness or of charlatans […]

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I have noticed recently that Mr. Long’s plaintive cries for new membership has despite all the odds actually resulted in some new members, will wonders never cease. In the spirit of welcoming new people on board I am starting up a retrospective. It turns out Ricochet was not created yesterday, we’ve been around for awhile. […]

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I personally only glance at the subject lines and perhaps might read one if it catches my eye. Scrolling down the page I see only a handful of posts that even get ten comments. Many don’t get any. What about you? How much attention do you pay to the member feed? Preview Open

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I recently ran across one of the first blog posts I ever wrote. It was brilliant (of course) but clicking through that nine-year-old website reminded me of why I gave up blogging for several years.

A few opinionated friends and I created the blog to vent about politics, culture, business and anything else that crossed our minds. A couple weeks in, I got my first Instapundit link and decided to get more serious about writing. I posted at least once a day, whether I had anything to say or not, and dutifully hawked my wares to bloggers with vastly more traffic.

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Confession time: I’ve been a liberal since 1962, the year I was born to a pair of Kennedy Democrats. When I was in high school in Washington, DC, I would cut class and spend whole days down on the mall, marching and protesting for the ERA, the legalization of marijuana, the Nuclear Freeze and the Sandinistas. I protested against South African Apartheid and both for and against the Shah of Iran (Okay, I was a little confused on that one…)

More recently, I was ordained as a minister in the most theologically and — statistically at least — politically liberal denomination in the country. And as it drifts further and further to the left, have found myself doubting whether I belong there.