This too was devoted to asking questions, in this case the weightiest: How did we get here?
At certain big moments in our lives, we simply want the people closest to us to shut up and defer, especially on issues as weighty as how far melon is from orange on the color wheel.
Yesterday, the son of former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and convert to Catholicism was toying with a somewhat less weighty issue: how to balance his modest black-garbed life as a Jesuit scholar with the red-decked ceremony of his new role as a cardinal.
It's a small moment, but it's weighty, revealing how Jules is hesitant scared to just type the word "rape" into her computer.
It proved a little trickier to find agreement around two weightier matters: how to kickstart the sluggish European economy, and how to respond to Russian revanchism in Ukraine.
Rather than defend his own record or lay out what he wants to do about the deficit, the erstwhile candidate of hope has set his attack dogs on such weighty issues as how much tax Mr Romney paid or how many jobs were lost at Bain Capital, a company that Mr Romney for the most part ran rather well.
An instructional Web site called Howcast.com has a popular channel on YouTube that tackles weighty issues like how to handle flatulence in yoga class or how to behave at a nude beach.
How weighty is the overweight textbook issue on campus?
Is it weighty to know how much this ballet company means to Russians?
Others are more weighty, like determining how bankers should be paid.
Weatherwatch: Clouds are weighty wonders, but how do they stay up?
