/. is an interesting site, but if you want intelligent viewpoints on poltics, look elsewhere... your average "geek" tends to be the intellectual type that thinks themselves in circles and right out of reality..
/. is interesting for some of the submissions, but ALL of the comments are pretty much devoid of intelligent viewpoints, not just the ones for politics.slashdot.org. Some years ago that wasn't true, but the decent posters have all moved on to better places.
-paridel