This is Rob's department, but since he's away I'll note that the idea that Stephen Walt had an undistinguished academic career prior to his LRB article (which I happen to think is not his finest hour) is crazy. He's a major international relations scholar; I...
pomposity
I see that the Online Integrity project, the intarweb's very own Euston Manifesto--a noble effort to create a non-enforceable code of conduct expressed in vague enough terms to immunize one's.
Ah, first Treason-In-Defense-of-Slavery Yankee shared his pensees on civility, and now self-appointed protector of online integritude Josh Trevino has weighed in. Sure one could--and somebody probably will--note the cherry-picking worthy.