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     For most human beings, what to do with our hands is an issue.  Until we need an opposable thumb to pick something up, our hands have the social utility of an inflamed appendix.  Once upon a time we busied them by smoking.  Bogart and Bacall taught us how to do this with style.  Now that that has been declared unhealthy and a universal stigma, we employ our idle fingers fondling our cell phones.

-Steve Martini, Blood Flag