Fragmentary Monday

Let's just make this a regular feature, shall we? (Though now that I've said that, I'll probably fail to continue it next week...)

The inability of just about all of us to think for a second, seriously, meaningfully, while in a dispute on some complex matter that we’re the one who’s wrong. 

This is what makes almost all interaction—not all of it, but almost—with those with whom we disagree a fruitless waste of time, productive almost never of anything except animosity.  This is not…