Aaron Huslage

This gut-instinct approach served people well for hundreds of thousands of years, but it’s pretty clear that it doesn’t work in a complex world.

By her own words, Sarah Palin is dumb.

Here is a young president, prepared to allow himself to be portrayed as “weak” or “dithering” in the slow and meticulous arrival at public policy. He is trusting the reality to help expose what we need to do. He is allowing the debate - however messy and confusing and emotional - to take its time and reveal the real choices in front of us.

TELLER: Right. So, yeah, we split the plutonium atom I guess. And make a weapon out of it. BETHE: When is this due anyway? TELLER: I think tomorrow. BETHE: What?!?! TELLER: I know, right? I mean we shouldn’t have put it off, but … still sucks. BETHE: I have another class with one of the Soviets, and he says theirs isn’t due until 1949. TELLER: 1949?!?! BETHE: I know, right? TELLER: I knew we took the wrong section. And no wonder the Russkies were out last night.

I liked this too. With all the talk about how everyone is a citizen journalist and everyone is a content producer and everyone needs a digital media strategy it’s easy to forget that most people are horrible at all of this stuff.

One year ago, hopes were raised for the first time in decades when it was discovered that all the incidents up until that point had been the work of a sinister globe-spanning conspiracy of religious fanatics who, inspired by the term “God Particle”, had decided that no one could ever be allowed to look upon the hypothetical Higgs boson. This discovery was widely considered to have undermined the theory that Nature abhors a sufficiently powerful particle collider.