Pinkos and the Brain

In regard to the testimony of Judge Samuel Alito, the New York Times had this doozy:

For the most part, his handling of questions from Democrats had the effect of leaving his questioner shuffling through papers in search of the next question.

How surprising is this? As someone who's seen more C-SPAN than he possibly should (and remain sane), I can aver that today's Senators are far from scions of Intellect. Their public pronouncements are most often produced by the sweat of their fresh-faced underlings, who quite often fail to have a reasonable worldview based on historical and present facts. Today's Senator often comes off sounding academic and theoretical, like a 22 year old graduate of an elite university so inexperienced and out of touch with reality as to make one wonder what planet he calls home. The Senator sounds this way, that is, if he actually listens to his programmers and doesn't speak off-the-cuff, at his own peril. Two words come to mind: Ted Kennedy.

Author's note: speaking of modern education, I happened across this quote from Thomas Sowell today: "Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality."