Author: Peter Burris
“Technology … is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.”–C.P. Snow, New York Times, 15 March 1971.
Jon Stewart’s recent visit to CNN’s “Crossfire” to admonish the two hosts for fueling partisan quackery has struck a chord for two reasons. First, the guy is just funny. I’m sure that he could fall asleep at a party and get more laughs than most of us, certainly me. Second, his point seems valid. Political discourse seems more strident, more polarized, and more irreconcilable than ever before — and it’s got a lot of people worried.
