My instinct is to begin a column with a (too) long justification of the reasons I'm writing it.

But not today.

For reference, just look at the recent, tentatively solved shutdown of the federal government, the longest in U.S. history. Or heck, peruse the news on any given day. Seemingly, two halves of the nation despise each other. They're so angry they literally can no longer think straight. Common sense has fled our shores.

Of course, going back to Adam and Eve's family, there's been plenty of bitterness at the local and household level, most of which has nothing to do with politics. For millennia, there have been wars and rumors of wars on every inhabited continent, too. Among humanity, the opportunities for offense are endless.

But if you don't want to get trapped in this habit of

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