This Is the Worst Sentence You'll Read Today: Steven Pinker Edition

In 1999 or so your correspondent (me) was in college and went to see a linguist named Steven Pinker speak. His talk was about linguistics and evolution (I think). It was very interesting and Pinker seemed to your correspondent (me--the correspondent is still me) like the smartest person in the world, particularly for the way he responded immediately to audience questions about essentially random topics with comprehensive, example-laden answers. But it's apparently been downhill for him intellectually ever since, if this excerpt from a New York Times review of his new book Rationality is any indication: "Still, Pinker is troubled by what he sees as rationality's image problem. 'Rationality is uncool,' he laments. It isn't seen as'dope, phat, chill, fly, sick or da bomb.'"