And yet we still lack the basic skills of reflecting on such information, of sifting through the dirt to find the worthy nuggets.

It was my ex girlfriend. While I was breaking the record underwater for the first time, she was sifting through my Blackberry, checking all my messages.

Of the non political content that does exist in English, well, one of the reasons I called the site Pars Arts was a very nerdy play on the word parse for all the sifting I was doing to get to well written content.