Yesterday I went to Happy Hour. This is a periodic gathering of some people from my college community. It is a pleasant occasion, which I am always delighted to attend. There are almost no faculty who go to this kind of thing. It is a nice group of people from various spectrums across our campus. It gives me a chance to be with people I seldom or never would have any reason to greet and spend time in conversation. It is pleasant to be in a context where there is no agenda---and especially no hidden agenda. When I am there, I am not looking for anything, I am not asking someone for something and there are no expectations. The conversation can be engaging or rather aimless and it does not matter to me. As I drove away, I began thinking about the Happy Hour phenomenon. I know Happy...