Evolution of Dialog

This evening I was browsing Amazon (I don't do it every night, but yes two in a row) and ended up on Ben's Stein's movie Expelled. The movie claims to be about academic standards and integrity, saying that professors and scientist believing in Intelligent Design are ostracized from the scientific community and some even lose their jobs. I'm not sure how much of this is true. I mainly read through the comment section on the movie, which was mostly not about the movie but rather mostly about ID vs evolution, which is funny because the movie claims not to be about that specifically.
Anyways, what I came away with from my readings, is that neither party is really listening to what the other is saying. And honestly I can see why ID people don't think that evolution has any ground to stand on and I can see why evolutionist think that teaching ID is crap. I don't particularly feel like trying to take on either group, because as I said neither of them is listening and arguing against that isn't too much fun.
And I think that last point is the most important in this country right now. No one is listening, they just are spouting their beliefs and getting angry about what the other side is saying. I also feel here I should clarify what I mean by listening. I am using it in the sense of not just hearing the other party's words, but also thinking about them and considering another point of view. We don't do that any more, we just yell down what we don't agree with. That is unfortunate, because I think we'd be able to really solve a lot of our problems if we actually tried to work together rather than just agree that everyone else is an idiot.

Poetry

So I'm planning on posting more but well see how that all goes. Anyways, what I wanted to talk about now is poetry, but only not really. Just now I decided to get a new book of poetry and often as I do when I look for books I went to Amazon. But apparently poetry is not a main category for Amazon, poetry is a sub-category of literature and fiction. I can see why it was put there, but I still feel that poetry should be its own main category. The real kicker for me, however, was the number one seller in poetry. A book called Push, it's a novel, it's also the novel that inspired the movie Precious, no wonder it is a best-seller. Cat in the Hat only came in at number 16.