Since I'm always trashing...

...The Wall Street Journal, let me put in a good word for Gerald F. Seib. Even though I don't agree with his column today (or most other days, for that matter), I think he's a reasonable, reflective thinker, unlike most of the rest of The Journal's columnists. His colleagues impress me more as knee-jerk ideologues whose highest priority is defending their worldviews. If a peg is square, for example, they just keep pounding and pounding until it fits into that nice round hole somehow. ("There. I knew I could get it to fit eventually.") I'll admit it's hard to change the way you look at things--especially as you get older--but sometimes it's necessary if your goal is the pursuit of truth.