I was driving along yesterday and spied a bumper sticker on the car in front of me. I had never seen that sticker. I have always liked bumper stickers. They have been around for a long time. I see bumper stickers as part of American cultural media. The sticker communicates just as much as a tv advertisement or radio commercial. Sometimes the sticker is literally advertising some business. Others are humorous pieces and even others cover a range of communication options. The sticker on the car in front of me was round. At the top in fairly bold numbers I read 13.1. Since I am a runner, I knew exactly what that meant. It “told” me that someone in that car had run a half-marathon. A half-marathon is 13.1 miles. I have run quite a few half-marathons in my life---maybe 50 of them. Had the sticker said 26.2, I would know there was ...