The Stravager

Stonekettle Station: Red Sea : How do you like your new President? It’s been a month, give or take, so how about it? Is the Trump Administration better than you hoped or...

I have to admit, I have been engaging in a lot of political battles on Facebook.  I know it's fruitless.  I know that people don't really change their views on matters based on Facebook arguments.  But I can't really help it.  I just can't let the stupidity just hang out there unanswered.  So, when someone posts a meme that I know is either untrue or misleading I have to point it out.  I have been reading about and discussing political issues since I was 14 or 15.  I have always been into reading the newspapers.  My habit would be to scan the headlines and read the first paragraph or two of the story.  (Learned this trick from a junior high school history teacher who explained the inverted triangle style of news story writing.)  Then if a story caught my attention I would go back and finish it before moving on to the Op-Ed page.  I'd read them all, so I would see what Art Buchwald would have to say, then George Will, then David...