Making Sense of It All

We thought this salutary note appropriate to assuage all the exaggeration, manipulation and lies that the usual sources dump on us daily. Before we get to it, a most recent example. It seems all the chatter about cease fire with Iran, quick end to that war, opening of the shipping lanes, etc., etc. has now been shelved this week. Bombing resumes - on both sides. (Surprised?) It gives way to resumed bombing, threats to shut down the shipping lanes issued by Tehran, the all to familiar litany of threats issued from the Big Orange Guy. Looks like we may be subjected yet again to the exaggeration, manipulation and lies that serve governments at war. Now, we must acknowledge that in this case war is the culprit. And governments typically aren't forthcoming with the truth when they're at war - frequently for understandable reasons - But what of the exaggeration, manipulation and lies that are ginned up in so many areas besides war. You know the drill already, right? We've perhaps...