The Oddness of Everything

It's rare that I agree with anything I've read by George Will, but his recent piece in Newsweek, "The Oddness of Everything" hits the nail on the head: what's killing political and social discourse in this country and the world is a blind "excess of certitude." Simply, religious zealots and ideologues are so sure of themselves, there is no place for the wonder of just how little we do know. And when you look at the very big and the very small, as Will does in this excellent little column, it's hard to be sure of anything other than the stupidity of people so comfortable in their knowledge.