This weekend, I edited an essay that Jonah was working on for his fourth grade class. It started off, "There have been many technological advances in recent years: airplanes, computers, rockets, cars, and tennis balls." Yes, he thought that the invention of little, yellow bouncy things was up there with travel to the moon as a pivotal advance in the human existence. I decided to not red pencil the tennis balls, because, after some thought, I decided that tennis balls were pretty cool things.

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