Mr. Gobley sez:

• An entire life probably will be viewable via the Internet before long: a camera implanted in utero, removed at death -- if then. A consummation devoutly not to be wished.
• The most deadly trait in a leader is the utter lack of a sense of humor.
• Charisma is a close second.
• Beware the era in which the extraordinary is commonplace, and vice versa.
• Time-honored salves for the depressed soul: volunteer work; tending a garden; two days in a place where no engines are heard.
• Time-honored depression accelerants: television; strip shopping centers; celebrity-hunting magazines; bathroom scales.
• How about a national service program placing suburban teenagers on family farms for a summer of work?
• A theory on our current leadership crisis: neckties restrict blood-flow to the brain.
• Needed invention: antibiotic socks for walking shoeless through airport security.
• Spiritual nutrition: take a moment, before the first bite, to ponder the food's journey to your table, and the efforts, and the individuals, involved in getting it there.
• We have free will, all right -- but where did it come from?

--Mr. Gobley