Just the facts, ma'am.
When I run across the same idea from two different respected sources in the same day, I have to figure that the universe is trying to tell me something. First, this morning, I read Leonard Pitts' column . Pitts was decrying the fact that, as he stated it, we have become "a people estranged from critical thinking, divorced from logic. alienated from even objective truth." We are not persuaded by facts and by objective evidence. We reject any evidence that conflicts with our own preconceived ideas. We believe what we want to believe and anything that does not validate our beliefs is automatically rejected. The sad thing is that a people who reject critical thinking and who refuse to consider any alternative evidence or ideas are doomed. Just because you refuse to believe that a brick wall is a brick wall does not make the wall cease to exist, as you will discover when you walk into it. That column gave me quite a bit to think about, and then, this afternoon, I happened ...