It's Great to Have a Smart President. Halaluyah!

You have got to read Nicholas Kristof's OPED piece today. It says it all (plus some gross stuff about Nero that I wish an editor had cut out).

Op-Ed Columnist
Obama and the War on Brains

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Published: November 9, 2008
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
Maybe, just maybe, the result will be a step away from the anti-intellectualism that has long been a strain in American life. Smart and educated leadership is no panacea, but we’ve seen recently that the converse — a White House that scorns expertise and shrugs at nuance — doesn’t get very far either.