Digby: Vain In Our Highmindedness

It's funny that Atrios highlights this perfect quote by Charlie Peters just as I was writing a post on this very subject as another follow-up to Jonathan Chait's piece on the netroots.

I'm very fond of Mike [Kinsley]. He's genuinely brilliant, but I think there has always been a tension between Mike and me, in that I sense he is embarrassed by passion. Mike's detachment has notably decreased since his marriage and the onset of Parkinson's, both of which had a pronounced humanizing effect, but his more sardonic imitators have become a major problem in journalism -- very bright people who seem too concerned with being bright.