Perhaps the key to understanding Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is to realize she is a kind of aging entitlement generation adolescent.

The substitution of chutzpah for actual comprehension, the overestimation of self worth, the impatience at paying dues, the self-serving aura, the rejection of the adult (that is, thinking) world, the generational cant (the ubiquitous "like") - in short, the presumption.

MICHAEL STAMM

Concord