Do We Believe In the Daily News?

Or do you listen for safety reasons, as I do?

Who can believe all they hear after the last two years, the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, 9/11, AIDS, or flu vaccines, to name a few complicated topics?

Something closer to reality seems more available as time goes on, history develops like a photographic negative in solution, and one vision of the past comes to life.

As time goes by, we season that story with common sense, a personal touch, and more facts.

A few months folks yelled absurdities about vaccinations from the rooftops.

They keep it quiet now, as one would expect.

No one has the spine to be wrong about pandemics in public. The work of herding people to take shots is complete. Those who herd vanish to wherever well-remunerated people go to be invisible.

The current issue is the war in Ukraine. There is the correct opinion and then the social rejection as with vaccinations. Break the rule, and some reject you.

I remember when we would try to convince each other with arguments designed to advance our case.

I have been surprised more than a few times talking to a friend who made a good case for something. I thought I knew that I had to do some more…