Set aside grandstanding, bickering, politicizing and anger. Send them packing in short order along with impatience, intolerance, ungratefulness and wont. Unguarded emotions and irritable conversations are also ­­not welcome for a time. Reclaim ownership of your life from the media noise and hype. This is not a call to reject personal belief in favor of anything or anyone. Most of us will not change our minds or positions on most issues anyway. We should at least heed a call to respect others enough to never assume that we alone have the correct view or answer. A little bit of selfi...