Cut the crap, nobody cares about rationality in the abstract.
But rationality in the abstract is so interesting! (To a certain subset of the population, and maybe the people who don't belong to that subset feel alienated by ideas that seem boring to them, but that doesn't mean it's wrong to be interested in rationality because it's cool to think about.)
Concerning Less Wrong's tagline, consider this plausible reaction of someone looking at LW for the first time:
And here are two real quotes from 2009:
And in reply:
The quoted text speaks for itself really. So therefore I think LW's admins/web designers should seriously consider replacing the rationality tagline with something more savory.