Fitzgerald said "the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function." Ebert seemed to have a knack for thinking all the thoughts simultaneously, and then getting their product onto a page:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/12/win_ben_steins_mind....
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2013/03/how_i_am_a_roman_cat...
One of the truly great Internet writers. My favorite:
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2008/11/the_pot_and_how_to_u...
(It's not what you think!)
The blog is getting crushed right now but most of this content is in Google's cache.