Lessons of Modern Life

• Social media is generally unsociable.
• Authenticity is over-rated. Insincere kindness beats sincere cruelty. 
• The traditional news media bemoan informal news sources but then do everything possible to enhance the appeal of those sources.
• In the game of ideas those who can't score a point can always feign an injury.
• People who barely know their own minds can tell you, in minute detail, the arcane motives of a person whom they've never met.
• The draft did more for the nation than it did for the military..
• .Walk slowly and observe. Read slowly and do the same.
• The government should move several cabinet departments to the Midwest, the Southwest, and the South.
• This may be one of those times in history when the kids won't be all right.
• Hollywood political endorsements should be the kiss of death.
• If the quality of your life is to be depicted by either an email or a handwritten letter, choose the letter.