Over at Spectator USA, Sam Leith's article with the title "Common sense is the real generation gap" caught my interest. I thought I knew where he was headed.  After all, common sense has probably always been the real generation  gap.  Growing up (as opposed to only getting older) is mostly a matter of actually acquiring the common sense that experience of life gives us the opportunity to acquire.  People older than us had a head start, and we are supposed to try to catch up.  Mark Twain probably said it best: "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.  But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." As we all know, acquiring common sense can be a matter of life and death.  I'm thinking, for example, of the teenage boy who swallowed a garden...(Read Full Article)