Frequently, when you hear an advertisement for an auto dealership on the radio, you have the announcer speaking at 2000 WPM in a hushed voice at the end of the ad trying to cram all of the dealership’s disclaimers into the final 5 seconds of the spot. It sounds ridiculous, and it serves no purpose other than to protect the dealership from the legal ramifications of his ad. Nobody can hear, understand, or process what that guy is saying, but to protect himself from claims of false advertising, the dealer crams it in.

I don’t do that here. The old principle applies, “You can’t say everything all the time, because if you try to say everything all the time, you wind up saying nothing at all.” Of course, whether I say anything useful when I do talk is another matter entirely.