Am I the only one here this morning addicted to classic cartoons?

Say Donald Duck? Sylvester the Cat? Alvin the Chipmunk?

Remember how one of them, let's say Donald Duck, would sometimes find himself confronting a moral dilemma (steal Pluto's stuff, eat Tweety Bird, drive Daisy crazy)? While considering this dilemma in the cartoon scenario, two figures would appear over the character's head: one red with horns and a tail, the other clothed in fluffy white with wings and a halo.

Evil and good - a devil and an angel - would argue and harangue overhead, trying to entice the character to choose their side. Since these were goofy cartoon characters, inevitably there was a wrong choice made the first time around.

The trouble for Donald, Sylvester, Alvin, and all the rest of us, is that sometimes …