Jaywalking - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry

Jaywalking - by Michael Smith - Unlicensed Punditry - Michael Smith

• Jay Leno, 
• Ronald Reagan, 
• Alyssa Ahlgren, 
• hipster coffee shops, 
• Robert Malthus and 
• Alanis Morrissette all tied up in one man's lament about a lack of a common body of knowledge.

“I just mentioned to someone that a friend of mine was in the Galapagos, and their response was “what’s that?” 

There seems to be no such thing as a common body of knowledge in our culture anymore—things you can expect everyone with walking around sense to know. 

Sometimes I feel like my whole life is an episode of Jaywalking with Leno, which I always assumed was staged. 

Apparently not.”...