Now some asshole starts spreading a link like the Obamas are partying like rock stars across the globe while the US economy is in the toilet.
The single thing that worries me most about our future is the trend toward fact-free discourse. Climate change is a hoax. The deficit is because of Obama's new spending. Cutting taxes increases revenue. America has the best health care system in the world. Obama's policies are communist. Iraq was behind 9/11. Scott Brown advocated violence against Martha Coakley. Palin said "I can see Russia from my house". Al Gore said he invented the Internet. So many things flying around are just not true.
So, we heard from the campus police officer that 5 shots were fired at a woman 1 block away about an hour ago. We haven't actually gotten any notice of this officially.
eta: All the shots missed.
And yet - somehow the fact that all the shots missed isn't all that reassuring, is it?
Gads, I'm glad they missed.
The single thing that worries me most about our future is the trend toward fact-free discourse. Climate change is a hoax. The deficit is because of Obama's new spending. Cutting taxes increases revenue. America has the best health care system in the world. Obama's policies are communist. Iraq was behind 9/11. Scott Brown advocated violence against Martha Coakley. Palin said "I can see Russia from my house". Al Gore said he invented the Internet. So many things flying around are just not true.
ITA. I'm starting to swing back to my belief that politics in the US are irreparably broken.
the fact that all the shots missed isn't all that reassuring, is it?
Well, I'm sort of horrified that someone could be that bad a shot [Sox may be the only one who understands where I'm coming from on this point - our fathers were, when their eyes were good - some of the best shots in the US and we were raised with certain expectations] but honestly troubled by the thought that the U would rather stay out of the news than let me know someone with a gun, who isn't afraid to use it, is somewhere nearby.
Yikes, Sparky! That's scary!
I'm going to keep tilting at the stupid windmills on the internets.
You know some people love metaphors and analogies? I'd really rather them not be used, than them be used wrongly. That's not actually how James Bond movies go, sir.
Yikes, Sparky.
So you know that robocall I got election night? [link] It's quite convoluted.
