When in the course of all that is rational . . .

People who want to live from one crisis to another, without actually touching on very much that is particularly relevant can simply listen to the news.

It can become a media event if a public figure makes a statement that is totally unfounded by science, history, math, or anything else. Every news report on the radio will cover it. Talk shows will chew it up and regurgitate it in ten different ways. The television will announce every hour that they will cover it on the six o'clock news, then use it as a header to announce the news and finally present it as news.

When did facts become irrelevant?  

How did we become a culture who fixates on the ridiculous?

There are topics that are debatable.  There are some things that might be debatable. And there are things that just do not hold water, even if you hold your hand close underneath them and try hard to pretend nothing is dripping out.

In a world as big as ours surely there is more to talk about than these irrational imaginings made by people who should know better.

The very fact that a public personality would spout this nonsense should forewarn us that their day in the sun is coming to a sad and dim ending, so why do we listen to it as if there might be something truly valid about it?

That is the question.