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To be completely clear, I am uninterested in most things. I don’t have passionate feelings one way or the other. I don’t often talk or write about these things.

This is because you might like some of these things. I don’t want you to feel insulted, or offended, or hurt. I want to avoid needlessly slamming something that I don’t really care about, just to make a joke, and end up hurting your feelings.

I’m not referring to just readers of this column. I mean people in general.

This doesn’t make me noble, or conscientious. It makes me a grownup, I think. Or at least my mother’s s...