I'm having a serious conversation with you. Looking you in the eye. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, you jerk your head back and display your teeth, as you yearn to get the last remaining drops of your drink.

I'm unhappy with the current design of drinking containers. At least with a glass, you only half to go a millimeter above horizontal, and gravity will empty the remains into your mouth.

But soda cans? Coffee cups? Anything with a lid creates this sort of catch-all that forces you to violently try and defy physics.

And no, I refuse to leave any of the beverage in the container. And no, I refuse to use a straw.

Solve my problem.

I just started reading, "Next Christians: The Good News About the End of Christian America" by Gabe Lyons this week. Had heard a lot of good things. But not super excited about it.

Then, in the first chapter, in a single paragraph, he thin-sliced me. Talked about how 20-somethings have no trust in authority. How Bill Clinton was the first president we remember. And we remember him as an unfaithful liar. How our Great War is the Iraq War, one which we feel largely duped and heavily deceived about.

Enron. Mortgage-backed securities. Everything around us our entire lives has told us, "Don't trust authority, because they can not be trusted."

And my jaw dropped. Why? I don't know. Perhaps because I created an entire website trying to convince people of the total depravity of man.This whole time, I thought my libertarian conclusions were a result of my own intellectual superiority and search for truth. But Lyons claims it simply because I'm in my 20s and I'm a product of my environment.

I'm hooked. And I'll be sure and tell you if it holds up.