Someone came up with the idea to start a "demilitarized thread" where participants agree to refrain from name-calling and ad hominem attacks. This will take some discipline, and will only be as successful as the participants make it.
Here are some examples of arguments that should not be made in the demilitarized thread:
-You're clearly a Freud shill.
-How much is Nike paying you?
-Of course Centro won the 1500, he was on the CentroSauce.
-Galen got six squirts of Androgel this morning and still barely made the team.
-Adam was just jealous because AlSal was diddling his wife.
-Kara is an attention-hungry sociopath.
-Clearly Magness is just a beta male who was sad that he couldn't cut it with the NOP.
-This investigation is just a jealous witch hunt.
I don't have a lot of faith that this will succeed, but I'll ask the brojos to keep it up. At the very least, it will be an interesting test of the willpower of the LRC community.
Alright, SUBSTANTIVE DEBATE ONLY from here on out. Go!