"...people are weary of childish tantrums in the public square."Let us test this theory to descern who are throwing childish tantrums:
1)Tune into C-SPAN Washington Journal any morning of the week
2) Turn your volume way way down - who's voice can still be heard?
3) Listen to the speakers as if they were humming a song - who has a pleasant voice - who sounds arrogant."...the host's gilded resume...secretary of education (1985-88)..."
And can be credited for the dumbing down of America?
"...Book of Virtues..."
When virtues consist of condemning sexual misadventures as more damning than bloody war and torture is desirabl...it is a numbing and a dumbing down of America.
"Thus, stumbling across Bill Bennett on the radio is like bumping into Socrates at Starbucks."
Bill Bennett is as much like Socrates as Kathleen Parker is an Amy Goodman.
"Liberals (the modern kind) really think they're smarter than everyone else, therefore they don't listen."
Exactly what nerds hear from the first day they enter school.
"Even Pope John Paul II didn't do everything right...'But you take a man's measure by the totality of his actions."'
How's about putting that measure on the actions of all popes of all times - be sure to include, was it Pope Boniface who said, when faced hundreds of years ago with the pedophile problem "It's no different than two hands rubbing together' or the several popes that had mistresses?
"That noise you don't hear is the sound of a million heads nodding."
In street lingo they are called bobbing heads - we can hope there is only 'a' million such heads.
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