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Runtu wrote:He has kind of funny sense of humor. Dare I say it, it's similar to Rush Limbaugh's barbed self-mocking that is really aimed at his opponents.

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Moksha has provided some examples of not taking DCP with godawful seriousness. He's admitted to finding the guy likeable and being perplexed at the response to him, but then he jokes on him, in a way that's obviously not intended to really demean, but just to give the razzer a bit of razzing. My gue...

Senor Scratch, Hello, and thanks for the welcome. Let me clarify what I said before, and see if it makes more sense now. When I say "engage him on his own ground"--I don't mean his posting turf; I mean his rhetorical ground. He's not so serious about his own rhetoric. He seems to produce i...

Hi Jersey Gal, As editor of The FARMS Review, DCP is the most visible and prominent FARMS writer. So, yes, he comes to symbolize, and epitomize, FARMS as a whole. However, I think there are deeper, more specific reasons for his service as a human lightning rod. First, he is a very effective rhetoric...

Hi Harm, I'm not saying that the matters under discussion, or debate, aren't serious--they are. And DCP recognizes this. But he tends to approach debate over them with a kind of light-hearted rhetorical style. I'm also not saying, by the way, that he shouldn't be prepared to take rhetorical counterp...

Dan Peterson is a curious person. From my experience with him in person and online I don't think he writes out of anger, hostility, or malice toward anyone--even those he most ridicules. He's quite sincere in his beliefs, and his personal construction of theism and of Mormonism in particular has an ...