Facebook's success proves that most of us don't mind sharing our lives directly with our friends.

CNN: What Facebook will do with Instagram

And listen, keep in mind, we don't, as Americans, expect success to be handed to us.

WHITEHOUSE: Remarks by the President in Milwaukee, WI

You put us back into a cycle where the responsible gun owners who don't mind some minor changes to encourage upholding the American tradition of safe shooting get stuck feeling defensive against the condescension of people who've never fired a gun.

CNN: On gun control, two places to start

And kind of walk us through the flavor of some of these conversations, if you don't mind.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

It's that we don't really mind ripping off huge fat-cat corporations, which would probably do the same to us given half the chance.

BBC: Why is it 'OK' to nick software?

" Apparently Jamie feels little love for his whiny constituency, since his clueless response was thus: "European consumers have shown that historically they don't mind that, because they end up buying as many PlayStations, if not more, than the US and Japan.

ENGADGET: CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XV - Europeans "don't mind" waiting for Sony products

The thing about mind games, like anything metaphysical, is that those of us who are watching them unfold don't really know what's real and what isn't.

WSJ: English Premier League: Sir Alex Ferguson's Mind Games