Generations since the 1950's have been trained for life at the touch of a button. People press away ... futilely, believing that insistence gets results. Or maybe they enjoy that sense of power that pressing seems to impart.

The LA Times has a penchant for writing random, obscure editorials. It's nice to see NY Times getting into the act. On some level, though, there is very serious depth to this notion about people and buttons -- it says a lot about people today.