“I’d bet anything that if the election ballots hadn’t had the names Bush and Kerry on them but simply asked instead, ‘Do you watch Fox TV or read The New York Times?’ the Electoral College would have broken the exact same way.”
Tom Friedman, who also wrote, “I felt as if I registered to vote, but when I showed up the Constitutional Convention broke out.”
Hi Ken- Just stumbled upon your site while trying to find out more info on that IQ Chart. Pretty darn funny if nothing else. Anyway, I read that OPED piece by Friedman also.
Did you catch the piece next to it by Gary Wills? “The Day the Enlightenment Went Out?” That’s a great piece, too. Here’s a quote – “Where else do we find fundamentalist zeal, a rage at secularity, religious intolerance, fear of and hatred for modernity? Not in France or Britain or Germany or Italy or Spain. We find it in the Muslim world, in Al Qaeda, in Saddam Husseins’s Sunni loyalists.”