Here is what most people want, “Give me the bullet points.”  People have convinced themselves that they can soak up the salient points of any concept, no matter how complex, by skimming the first sentence of each paragraph.  We read the headlines and skip the text.  We scan the synopsis and think we know the story.  A Hollywood celebrity recently posted an opinion on his Twitter account about a highly publicized scandal involving a Big Ten football coach.  The trouble is, he didn’t do his homework, he just read the headlines; so his opinion was flawed.  A day later, with egg on more than just his face,

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