Barack Obama's San Francisco-Democrat comment last week – about how alienated working-class voters "cling to guns or religion" – is already famous. But the fact that his aides tell reporters he is privately bewildered that anybody took offense is even more remarkable.
As a husband, I spend time each month puzzling over how I managed to offend my much better half *this time*.
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New digs for ponderings about Levantine Christianity.
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Be reasonably civil. Ire alloyed with reason is fine. But slagging the host gets you the banhammer.