I added this to my post on neocon rationalism below. I'm not sure how 'on' it is, but until I make up my mind, I like it: "There is something wrong with a country when its intellectual population is unwilling or unable to accept that ambiguity is central to any valid understanding of experience, and when that country's artists and writers end up so anti-intellectual almost in response. What is American culture these days but empiricism run amok?"
"Opinions are like assholes. Everybody has one"