Justices left and right coalesced around the worry that attempts to clean up political discourse will do more harm than good, stifling opinionated speech for fear of legal sanction.
Everyone says that they want a clean and substantive discourse.
"Simple discourse breaks you clean in half," Mr. Adkins wailed in "Crush," a punk salvo about unrequited affections.
"She is an African woman – I happen to think women make better politicians than men – and she is entering our political discourse on a clean slate, so to speak.
Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.
That was my fascination with the country, and my hope was that once media entered, since it was a clean slate, that the level of discourse might be higher.
The medical metaphors of health and disease serve the same function that earlier forms of moral discourse did; dividing women into clean (not at risk) and polluted (dangerous and risky).
This isn't the most elevated national discourse, and it's certainly not the clean campaign we hoped for when Mr McCain and Mr Obama secured their nominations.
Yet despite a lack of scientific evidence, clean eating is defining the health and weight loss discourse, says Krista Scott-Dixon, a nutritional consultant for Precision Nutrition.
Mr. Frusciante is an alternately coruscating and delicate guitarist who once left the Chili Peppers to pursue some career alternatives that brought him within Kubler-Ross distance of dying, then abruptly cleaned up, returned to the group, and can now discourse extensively on ashtanga yoga.
