At a certain point, we are in part defined by this tendency. That America endorses the NFL pain party starts to say something about the country. Such as: American culture is replete with couchjockeys who feel more masculine for having watched other people destroy themseves.Child foodies, he said, were intolerable. Wouldn't it be ridiculous, he asked the audience, to hear some little kid say "Please, can I have some sushi?"We chuckled uncomfortably and shifted in our seats. Truth is, around these parts, you are as likely to find fiveyearold tekka maki lovers as not.

"Platform agnostic,'' I believe, means that he was unwilling to commit to work on one platform, and he enjoyed and was good at many . "Neologism'' is a new word, usage or expression, meaning that social media was just another new tool to communicate for Ebert . And "tautology'' means a needless repetition of an idea.DAVID: You don't know. It depends how much he wanted to support it. But