While living in Lincoln, Neb., many years ago, I drove by a man’s house that had caught fire and was burning -- the roof was in flames. Oddly, the owner was out mowing his front yard while his house was ablaze. He just kept his head down and mowed, as if nothing was going on around him.
That image came back to me last week as I was reading The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Th