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What passes for discourse is often too much pontificating and attacking; and not enough listening and understanding. That's true of the Web, as David Pogue and Rob Hyndman observe, but it's also true of other media: for example, talk radio.

Each of us may be wiser today than we were yesterday, but that may only mean that we're slightly less of an idiot today than we were yesterday. In any event, there's a good chance we'll be wiser tomorrow than we are today. So next time we have the urge to fire off a correction to someone else's opinion, let's consider waiting until tomorrow, and thinking about it in the meantime.