Don't bogart that smart phone

    On election night, we got together in a bar to bite our nails and watch returns. Some of the fellows were standing together around a smart phone, or maybe a tablet, checking no doubt on Nate Silver's last second projections. And I couldn't help but notice that they looked a lot like kids in the schoolyard back in the bad old days standing together surreptitiously sharing a cigarette. Or like fans at a rock show sharing a joint. We decided that smart phones are 21st century cigarettes. It's a gateway technology, isn't it? Or is that the iPod?