The first two paragraphs of this article crack me up.
The rest of it is a good read, and a good point. Although I have to disagree at least to some level — I’ve found that most of the people I work with are quite capable of intelligent discourse, as are most of my friends, and the only issue is that we’re rarely well-enough educated on the subjects we speak about to truly come to a concensus.
Not that stops anyone else, mind…