A Layman's Look

Well it seems that once-candidate Trump's strategy of throwing up anything he sees fit, factual or otherwise, just to pollute the air and make it harder to see what is being planned and/or done is finally causing a reassessment of means of combating said strategy.  Journalists that I have seen in the last few days seem to be trying new approaches including The New York Times  implementing footnotes to present the factual version of the President's statement, and Rachel Maddow beginning, it seems, to sidestep the lies and look behind the cloud at what is being done on the ground. It is a bit like herding cats, isn't it?  They run all over the place, are completely independently minded, become harder to catch the more they are chased, and continually take you further and further from what's most important.  It seems to me that these approaches are sound.  It seems to me that allowing the lies to run off on their own steam and not chase them, thus giving them mor...

There are so many things to say, so many things that have been running through my mind over the last two-and-a-half months.  My mind feels a bit like responsible journalists must feel in their attempts to corral the untruths and contradictions foisted upon us during the presidential campaign.  There's so much frustration noise that I can't seem to focus in on one thing.  But I shall try! I don't know about anyone else, but I went to bed upset and I woke up mad. I don't usually put much stock in horoscopes, but I've always found it interesting that I have such a desire for things to be fair, and I happen to be a Libra which, in case you don't know, is symbolized by a set of scales in astrology. Fairness.  Balance. That's one of the wonderful things about a democracy, is it not?  The majority will carry the day and we will move forwarded guided by the ideas and ideals shared by more than 50% of our fellow Americans.  And yet, here we sit, on January 2...