Honesty has come to mean the privilege of insulting you to your face without expecting redress.

Etiquette is about all of human social behavior. Behavior is regulated by law when etiquette breaks down or when the stakes are high - violations of life, limb, property and so on. Barring that, etiquette is a little social contract we make that we will restrain some of our more provocative impulses in return for living more or less harmoniously in a community.

Protocol is etiquette with a government expense account.

Many people mistakenly think a new technology cancels out an old one.

Why bring children into a world where no one writes letters?

If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.

everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it.