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Most Of Us Have Learned The Hard Way That There Are Very Few Things You Can Absolutely Count On In Life.

Everything I Love About America Is Fragile.

Where Past Generations Had Film Cameras, Scrapbooks, Notebooks, And That Part Of The Brain Which Stores Memories, We Now Have A Smartphone App For Every Conceivable Recording Need. The Thing Is, All That Time You Spend Logging And Then Curating The Quotidian Aspects Of Your Daily Life Is Time Taken Away From Actually Doing Things.

Somewhere Along The Way, New York Became All About Money. Or Rather, It Was Always About Money, But It Wasn't All About Money, If You Know What I Mean. New York's Not Geneva Or Zurich Yet, But We're Certainly Heading In That Direction. London Is, Too.

My Suggestion To Newspapers Everywhere Is To Give The Public A Reason To Read Them Again. So Here's An Idea: Get On A Big Story With Widespread Public Appeal, Devote Your Best Resources To It, Say A Quiet Prayer, And Swing For The Fences.