Could Have Told You That Dept.

In a book review in the Times today:

Book Review - 'Why Are Jews Liberals?,' by Norman Podhoretz - Review - NYTimes.com

I always felt the current political spectrum of conservative-to-progressive made little sense. Let's organize it this way: on one side, you have the folks who actually want to talk about the issues in an informed way, broker compromises, move things forward. On the other, you have the people who seem to take pride in being stupid as furniture, who measure their value in how much noise they can make and not in what actual policies they can get enacted, who don't want to be told anything they don't already think they know.