That Kamala Harris and the artist stuff is the warm and fuzzy stuff I used to write about when I was a high school kid working for an afternoon daily in a small city in North Carolina from 1968 to 1970. They dumped that stuff on me because the adults thought they were too good or too much above it for it.
Warm and fuzzy stuff reportage has its place. I could do today if I worked for a dead tree publication with no qualms or misgivings.
These days, of course, we need to preserve the trees.
The point is, at the end of the day, remains the greatest good for the greatest number.
I think it's great the kid did a portrait of the new Vice President.
But I'm switching it around.
I'm going to pull a Malcolm Gladwell on you.
Let's say you and I meet up with that kid one day soon and we both tell him we think his work of art of the new vice president was great.
And then we ask him:
If you choose to make another work of art about a person, how about making a work of art about someone you admire in your own community? Maybe more than one.
Or, as Hillary Clinton said, "It takes a village."
