Plenty of pundits have really high IQs, but they don't have any discipline in how they look at the world, and so it leads to a lot of bullshit, basically.
People gravitate toward information that implies a happier outlook for them.
A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
All I know is that I have way more stuff that I want to write about than I possibly have time to.
Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.