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May 2, 2012

The First Rule of Being Cool

Elizabeth Scalia, First Things

Have you heard the news? Barack Obama is cool! He’s not just cool, he’s way cool; the coolest thing ever!

Never having been “cool” myself (or desperate enough to seek its conferral upon me by people I always found to be rather sad trend-followers) I can only judge by past observation, but it seems to me that the first rule of being cool has always been that if you really are cool, then no one ever has to say it about you, because your “coolness” is as self-evident as the truth that all men are created equal.

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