Sometimes we think the letterhead matters.

Sometimes we get silly like that and think the letterhead implies wisdom. We can be so silly.

How to miss the point, over and over again, by "letterhead":

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/10/19/pond-scum


h/t to the Globe for the (i assume synergistic) link.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2015/10/21/sorry-new-yorker-thoreau-more-relevant-than-ever/XsF28iSLPwrLkiNZIpHmoI/story.html

i don't think i'll read their rebuttal. in an attractive and perhaps inevitably and/or desperately grasped-for parallel, i don't think i need to.