Journal to a Muse

Maureen Dowd has it right.
from today's New York Times Opinion pages:

How did W start out wanting to restore honor and dignity
to the White House and end up scraping all the honor and dignity off the White
House?
It turns out that our president is a one-man refutation of
Malcolm Gladwell's best seller "Blink," about the value of trusting your
gut.
Every gut instinct he had was wildly off the mark and
hideously damaging to all concerned.
It seems that if you trust your gut without ever feeding
your gut any facts or news or contrary opinions, if you keep your gut on a steady
diet of grandiosity, ignorance, sycophants, and peanut butter and jelly
sandwiches, those snap decisions can be ruinous.