Originally posted on The Oil for Your Lamp:
Why do you read?  I do not mean why do you read The OYL, but why do you read anything that purports to inform, educate or edify its readers? Before you think this a shallow question, let me share with you what I learned about the reasons…

The punditry classes on the left and the right decry the increasing partisanship in America. It is indisputable that there is such a thing. The “far right” is routinely targeted by our Democrat activists with bylines (the mainstream media) as the raison d’être for every ill in America while it ignores the similar rise of…