Two Qualities

1. In 2003, Americans had 1.46 billion credit cards, or five per person (Robert J. Samuelson, "Newsweek")



2. In a recent Pew Research Poll, Americans said news organizations hurt the nation by exposing the federal government’s bank monitoring program, by a margin of 50 to 34 percent. In the same poll, 65 percent of Americans said the stories were worth knowing about.

Is living with this ambiguity part of American life? If so, how do we deal with it?