This blog is my first and only, and I hope it will be my last. It's purpose is to comment on all events as rationally and plainly as possible, while reserving the right to rant about the avarice, stupidity and mindlessness that surrounds us everyday.
If you read a newspaper with interest in what's going in our world, or watch the so-called "news," including the self-appointed punditocracy, it should be apparent to most independent and reasonably well informed citizens that there are no facts, and as a result, no truth. The famous quote, attributed to the late, great Senator Patrick Moynihan, "you're entitled to your own opinion, but not to your own facts," no longer applies to any important subject. Moynihan's statement was, for at least some period of time, was accepted as the truth. It's logical, concise and true. Facts do exist, and there may be other facts that seemingly contravene them, but a fact can be verified and put forth in debate and argument. It can also be ignored, and other facts can be stated, but in all cases, they are demonstrably true. Nonetheless, the use of factoids as a replacement for facts is prevalent and a little effort is made to debunk them. Worse yet, there is no outrage anymore with false arguments based on factoids, and thus no apparent truth.
Nowadays, we have facts and we have the truth, formerly related and joined at the hip, but since the facts can be whatever any public person says they are, there is no connection between facts and truth. The truth is now relative. Thus, the purpose of this blog, among rants.
