"And let this always weigh down your feet like lead,
to make you move as slowly as a weary man,
to refrain from ‘yes’ or ‘no’ when you do not see …
because hasty opinion too often
points the wrong way and then affection
for one’s own opinion binds up the intellect."
Dante, Purgatorio XIII: 112-114, 118-120. He puts these words into the mouth of Thomas Aquinas, the thinker now purloined and abused by the theocons.
The Dish 