Credulity

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, May 1945

cf. Bertrand Russell, My Philosophical Development

Who says the left doesn't have a sense of humor?

from "The Ward Churchill Notoriety Tour", The Weekly Standard, April 25, 2005:

A woman with a foamy cow-head on her hand steps forward. She introduces herself to Churchill as a "video activist and puppeteer." Her little friend is "Barbara Bovine, a reporter for NO-BS news." She asks him for an interview, and he motions to me with some relief, telling her he's busy. But I refuse to let him off the hook. "It's all right, have at it," I say, "Don't want to miss this." Churchill looks pained, but consents to the cow interview.

Barbara Bovine starts in, saying she's a mad cow, not because she's diseased, but "pissed at how my species has been treated." When she questions him on the morality of paying taxes on things you don't want to support, such as food, he responds, "I'm going to have to eat you, aren't I?" Barbara looks perplexed, as much as she can for an inanimate object. "Are you not a vegetarian?" she asks. "Of course not!" he thunders. "I'm of the planet of the carrot. Why would I eat my relatives?"

indecision

Indecision is a terrible thing.