"... disdain for religion is certainly an attribute of enlightenment, I grant you that, but the question is is enlightenment what we are looking for? I think this is where conservatives have liberals beat, you know, the way they can with such easy duplicity accept the need to have the poor beasts believe in a something they control as opposed to having the cretins, left to their own wits, possibly following after a power less predictable..."

Listening to Republican debate this morning I wonder if the candidates are idiots or if, in tailoring their canned responses to idiots, they end up sounding like idiots themselves? It's a quandary. One just doesn't know which abomination to reason came first, the politician or the voter...?

"... let's be honest here, let's be realistic: humans have unfortunate tendencies, the most salient for present purposes being that whenever two or more of them come together, no matter how noble the cause, something gets corrupted..."